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It's an opinion. Nothing more.

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Seems that way. I'd imagine it's deliberations today, the headline decision to be delivered tomorrow, with full written decision to follow.

Makes sense. 3 day hearing Friday to Sunday, today to deliberate and write decision, tomorrow to publish.

Oh, we've moved onto that. I'd rather focus on what's actually happening.

What's the relevance of the question? We're not being charged with denying them victor, just observing training. How the match actually went has nothing to do with that.

Rethinking being outside of the EU is a rethink. I'm not sure what we're not agreeing on!

I'm fine with that. Not in this term though - any government needs a mandate to look at it afresh.

Middlesbrough aren't involved. Us or the EFL can appeal - too harsh, us, too. lenient, them.

Yep. It's strict liability - you've either done it or you haven't.

It's completely different. This will be seen an attempt to gain a tactical advantage over one team in game one of a maximum 3 game series, with a prize of promotion to the PL, and all the riches that go with. That has zero comparison to financial irregularities across many, many games. There is no comparable. None, hence the risk of us being made the example as a deterrent.

You've identified the sides whilst saying there aren't sides!! This is EFL Vs Saints. Sides.

The point the poster made was that we didn't get a sporting advantage. We may or may not have - theoretically we could have tweaked something so managed to scrape a nil nil... theoretically. Regardless, the panel will focus on the advantage we could have gained in such a massive game.

Why does this keep being said? It's utterly irrelevant. What's relevant is that the intention was to gain a sporting advantage, in the first of a series of games with a £200m prize.

I think people aren't looking at the context, and value, of the fixture. Massive outcome, massive penalty. If it was before the final, or even 2nd leg with it in the balance, I think we'd be in huge trouble.I think the club would swallow a massive fine. Let's see where it goes.