hypochondriac

All these journalists are very annoying. Just because nothing has been ruled out doesn't mean that a particular course of action is in any way likely to happen. I haven't ruled out winning the lottery and running off with Sydney Sweeney but it doesn't mean it's going to happen.

It would if you wanted to project an image of business as usual. Not that I think we will get kicked out.

Wouldn't surprise me. Or at least the prospect of not being in the final will be removed from the table. You'd have to think it will be Monday at the very latest.

100%. They wouldn't be able to kick us out now and if they attempted to do so the legal fallout means they wouldn't be able to forcibly remove us from the final at this stage anyhow.

Or the efl don't want us advertising tickets until the investigation is concluded.

Maybe it's a double bluff and we told him to look really amateurish with shit jeans so no one could possibly believe that it was anything other than a lone wolf.

I think worth reading that post by Miltonaggro. If they attempt to kick us out they could get themselves in a lot more trouble.

Also they haven't even heard the case yet or any mitigation from our end. No one will consider us getting booted out to be likely at this stage.

Middlesbrough would have no idea about how likely an outcome would be. It's an independent disciplinary panel.

Of course Steve Gibson can access the video of his own cctv in the hotel that he owns.

Unless they had him on cctv using his credit card to buy the coffee?

Agreed. I don't think they'd be leaking this to the media otherwise. Simon Jordan wouldn't be talking about making a deal with Gibson unless he'd been told that by the man himself.

No they need to persuade a disciplinary panel on the balance of probabilities that we had engaged in this before. If they managed to get a load of circumstantial evidence then that may be sufficient.

The suggestion is that he can use the bank details to look to see if there are other transactions made at other companies in the area near training grounds a few days before our games.

Not the other companies who may have that info he doesn't.

I wonder where they would land if we'd done it a few times at open training grounds, admitted it but said it was this intern and maybe his direct superior and that the others weren't aware of their actions and both are sacked.

This isn't a court of law. They probably won't but if they had a load of transactions in different locations close to training grounds from Mr salt prior to games then it would suggest a pattern.

Yes. He took it down about an hour after I took this screenshot.

That's a bit of a silly post. He was presumably an employee of the club and had travelled to Middlesbrough and is stood there pointing a phone at the training session. He's not playing a game.

What happened to that Derby uni link that said that Salt no longer interned at saints?

Seriously he stood the other side of a gate that said private property? How pathetic.

Fair enough. Not sure how that would work though because it's not Middlesbrough who have brought the charges.

If they'd had one of our strikers they'd have won that easily imo. They were gone in the second half and needed better strength in depth off the bench. They will be in the playoffs minimum next year.

Shame they are such thundercunts because that was the best defending I've seen from an opposition team and they were impressive in general. Should have been put of sight after the first half of the first leg.

Proper weirdos. You couldn't imagine Blackmore doing that!