It's also fair to say that just as people on here have clearly softened on the idea of sacking him as the anger has faded, it's entirely possible that the players are going through the same thing.
I wouldn't read anything into what he says. He's also the one that said "I know the character of our people" which led many to think there was more to our side of the story, when there wasn't, we were guilty.
Our case isn't comparable with Bielsa. Bielsa didn't break an actual written rule, he was charged with some wishy washy thing about not acting in good faith and defended himself.
We were caught red handed in violation of a very specific rule. We were bang to rights. We sent him. Tonda organised it. It was specifically against the rules we'd agreed to. There was nothing to "go into attack mode" about.
Absolutely. Got people saying "the fans deserved it" too because people were doing the binoculars etc, but I think that all came from the club seeming as though they weren't worried and it all seemed a bit of a storm in a teacup which the club would prove to be wrong.
If the club wanted to demonstrate serious contrition they should've sacked all involved or at least put them on gardening leave the moment we admitted to the rule break.