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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.

Not just the media though. He might get a hefty ban by the FA meaning we'll have no choice but to replace him. I can't wait to hear what it was he was itching to say about the matter in his interview after the second leg.

Probably because we thought if we were as open and cooperative as possible then we might be able to strike some kind of plea bargain to lessen our punishment.

We admitted it. No proof required.

My big concern (and I'm going to ask my nephew about this because he's an expert on football contracts) - is that some players might try and find a loophole to get their contracts cancelled because of the club's actions. Then we'll be well and truly fucked next season.

Feels a bit like that time Gazza got sacked as manager of Rushden and Diamonds but refused to accept it and turned up for work anyway in total denial.