Jimmy_D

Remember it’s not in the EFL’s hands now. They have to prepare for the possibility it has to be moved or changed, but you can’t read anything into potential outcome from their actions at this point.

That’s the same reporter that was claiming high tech equipment was being used to spy.

Indeed, from the EFL’s point of view, they’re selling tickets while one team is facing a charge with a possible outcome of being expelled, so their communication and contingency has to reflect that. The independent panel’s timing of the hearing, however, strongly suggests that expulsion is an unlikely outcome from their point of view now.

Suggests that the independent panel aren’t inclined to think that the time needed to sort things should they kick us out is something that will have to be dealt with.

I've never thought they were bad owners. They've put more money into the club than any other owner we've had, and every criticism of them basically boils down to recruitment not working out in various areas, where there's always a certain amount of luck involved (for any team, see also Spurs, Man Utd, Chelsea, Leicester, etc), but it's never been though any sort of malicious intent that I can see. We certainly know what a bad owner looks like, both for us and elsewhere... (owners that leverage debt onto the club, move to a terrible stadium they don't own, ignore the history of the club, even the club's colours, set absolutely extortionate prices, don't actually exist... etc.) Sports Republic aren't any of that.

Or they just happen to have a PO postcode

It’s all Turkish, he’s the spy. That’s how he’s been so ITK about our unbeaten run. That the reason it’s called the Circle of Trust. It’s all so clear now.

I'd be less annoyed than I still am now by Liverpool's illegal tapping up of VVD.

They have sanctions for financial breach punishments to carry over in either direction now, after Leicester escaped punishment up into the Premier League, but not sure if that applies to all rule breaches. That's likely also complicated by there being no equivalent rule for this in the Prem.

Imagine the Boro fans headloss for the ones fully expecting us to be kicked out if it really all comes back as ‘nothing to see here’

Yes.

GET IN!!!!! ’ave that you bunch of diving cheating no-mark thug ****s!

Ref still awful. Should have enough to finish them off in ET.

Relief to get back into it against this bunch of worthless diving cheating thugs with the ref absolutely awful.

That first half was due at least partly to Boro running on far too much adrenaline for a few different reasons and running themselves into the ground. They were spent after an hour, and it's unlikely they'll have fully recovered for tonight, especially as they don't have the same depth of squad to freshen it up.

The EFL have requested the independent panel expedite it, but they're under no obligation to do so, and they have to take into account Southampton's side, arbitrarily restricting our opportunity to defend ourselves potentially opens them up to all sorts of problems.

Shame we couldn’t land the sucker punch we were threatening to near the end when their mad high press burned them out, but 0-0 isn’t bad with the chances they had first half, more than capable of finishing this off at St Mary’s now.

If it has actually happened as described, and if it did get as far as lawyers, I’d imagine that free public access implicitly counting as permission would be one possible line of defence, or at least mitigation.

Ipswich offered absolutely nothing, gifted a point by a couple of moments of fatigued defending and an absolutely worthless cheating **** of a ref. Absolutely no fear of that lot of we get them in the play offs.

On the plus side, we’re STILL the last team to win at Maine Road…

Gave ourselves the best possible chance, might have gone our way on another day, couldn’t ask for more than that from the team.

Oh jeez. Massively unlucky with the deflection and not much you could do with the second.

Holy ****!!!!