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Well, the BBC have very recent history of desperately trying to trash someone's reputation for far less...!

They still have enough good players at present (and good youth coming through) that if they are able to keep a decent number will out pass most teams in the division. Just depends how many times he asks them to pass continually across their own box until someone decides to press them and they concede (another) stupid goal and lose or draw games they’ve absolutely dominated…

When will we hear of Blackmore being sacked? It's like he's deliberately trying to get the club (and fanbase?) to turn on him?

So is publically shaming and humiliating another team repeatedly in the national press, but nothing's happening about that is it.

I'm glad we won't let Boro just destroy the club in response to them not being able to win a game of football. It's all completely ridiculous fuelled by this cancel culture which seems to be the ultimate life goal of some people rather than just say being happy in yourself, or meeting up with friends, or just trying to enjoy life! The world doesn't need to exist to just punish and put people down, but I guess that's where we are as society, which is pretty sad. Hopefully the world can move on. Apparently there's a world cup starting soon?!

Not sure that's going to happen (as much as I'd like it to), but Larin's club will surely want to sell now they're relegated, and keeping my fingers crossed for him, as he was one of the best in the division the second half of the season.

I think he should. He was blabbering on like he'd been tapped up by Gibbo too...!

BBC article is winding it up to be as damning as possible, but it sounds like these analyst lads "the manager loved it (geez)" sound like right tools, rather than any sort of major workplace bullying which the media seem to want it to be saying, to keep the story going. I imagine these same lads were smashing back pints and calling each other legends after these trips, not going home and worrying if they'd done the world's worst crime.

I think the whole thing with Boro was that it seemed completely inappropriate and unethical as a major business to be blatently feeding the media continually and creating a circus / witch hunt, but for some reason (I think we know why...) the EFL lapped it up. In the real world, you'd see this kind of behaviour and see them also getting heavy sanctions. It was probably right of us in a normal business situation to not be throwing stuff around the media, but with hindsight and now we know how the dodgy EFL work, we probably should've done things a bit different. I'm sure any lawyers involved will be telling them not to make any sweeping comments (/ cry / phone in radio shows / write endless newspaper and internet articles) until such time as things have been discussed properly with the authorities.

I can see JWP coming back. Stop pissing around on loan to bottom half premier league teams and just come back and lead us back to the Prem!

Thought this thread needed a bump as there's no way he could or should be getting another decent level job any time soon. Is there a chance of legal action against this guy? Sounds like a disgruntled ex-employee has caused massive damage to his ex-employer after he was let go for being very poor at his job.

Didn’t watch the match but did Hackney full on kick anyone after they’d knocked it past him about 2/3 seconds before?! Cry babies!!

Hopefully Hull have better local media connections than Blackmore, who seemingly hasn’t really backed us at all through this whole fiasco. Probably mates with Gibbo! 🤣

Then Hull should declare that they believe the match is null and void, and here's our legal case. Maybe they can get James Cordon on board to demand £75 million from Middlesbrough?! Meanwhile Hull (or Saints!) release a media campaign continually demanding the match is void, picturing and shaming the Boro player, phoning mates from the media and brandishing this player a cheater for life. That is essentially the same thing they did to us, so should be fine for them to have the same treatment?!

For years Saints have been the nice guys, happily developing players for other teams to be tapped up, with numerous outstanding youngsters moving for minimal fees following tapping up from bigger clubs. It's even happened blatently to our star players whilst in the premier league, and yet nothing has happened. Whilst we've towed the lined and been "net spend champions" numerous times in the past, that has got us nowhere, and we've seen loads of clubs find increasingly dodgy loopholes for their extremely dodgy financial dealings, whilst we get totally thrown to the wolves for something that most logical people see can only give a very minor edge (if any!), not fundamentally improve the quality of players on the pitch. If there's something that comes out of this, is that I really hope Saints do go back and raise complaints (publically!) and some big lawsuits whenever anything previously deemed trivial or minor comes along. I can see a massive tidal change in the way football is regulated now, as every single club will be raising things with the EFL, FA and Premier League (or at least, if promoted, Boro will!) every week and it's going to become a nightmare for them. Making an example of one club, and letting another club completely try to tarnish an opposition clubs name through the media (whilst having their own board members on regulatory boards) is all very dodgy, but now every club can see that's how the EFL let you get what you want, they'll be doing this continually.