Sheaf Saint

Airlines do it all the time.

Suing our own manager, for our own failure to supervise his activity. Can't see that getting off the ground. What an utter fucking shambles.

So much this. It's not so much the doing it in the first place, it's the total incompetence of being so blatant and being so utterly fucking stupid as to have a paper trail of evidence.

All depends what's written into the conditions. They might have grounds to claim that the club have not acted in good faith, leading to a serious breakdown of trust. If I as an employee had been proven to have mislead my management and caused huge reputational damage as a result, I would quite rightfully face summary dismissal. Well contracts between parties work both ways, and if the club's actions and/or wilful negligence have caused any of our players irrreparable reputational damage then I'm fairly sure a good lawyer would be able to build a solid case that the club have somehow breached that contract.

Tye fact that the news page is STILL showing that tickets for the final are available to members is just a massive fuck you to evey single fan. I can only imagine that the media team have downed tools in protest or something.

I think it's fair to say that we the fanbase would like the club to do the same, but it's obvious that those running the club are a bunch of naive, amateurish cretins who wouldnt have a clue how to play that game.

Not necessarily. people need to get this "it's legal outside of 72 hours" idea out of their heads. Even outside of 72 hours, we're still guilty of the charge of failing to show respect to the other teams. But doing it inside 72 hours now brings the additional charge as well. As none of us has seen the panel's report yet, we don't know which of the two rules the charges for the Oxford and Ipswich games were brought in relation to. But the fact is that we have admitted to doing it, and demonstrated with the Boro incident that we didn't care about the 72 hour rule anyway.

Results wise, yes. But did you watch those games? Apart from Charlton, we were shocking and lucky to win any of them really.

Indeed. If today has shown us anything it's that the senior management of the club is beyond inept when it comes to defending ourselves from legal actions.

No chance of him coming to us while he's still being paid so handsomely by Chelsea, I wouldn't have thought.

His ability as a manager is completely irrelevant now. His position would be completely untenable. Even if by some miracle he escapes a FA ban, there is no way he can still be our manager next season if he was involved in this. None.

If the claim being made in the Telegraph that the players joked about it with mocked up images of Salt in camo gear, I think we can safely rule this out.

Didn't someone post recently that we don't currently have anyone employed in the regulatory compliance role at the club? Not that it excuses such an oversight, but it might at the very least explain it.

They're just fucking trolling us. This is still up there on the news page.

The OS has still got our next match listed as being against Hull this Saturday. Not a single mention anywhere of today's events on the site or on SM. Totally fucking unacceptable IMO.