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I suppose it's possible that there's been a punishment with a stay of execution pending appeal. Feels unlikely, but it seems that anything is possible in football.

We could do a lot worse than him, he's got a bit about him.

Indeed. I'm firmly in the if you're safe in France you should stay there gang, but can't fathom the mindset of anyone agreeing that they should be left to perish if they jump on a dinghy to come here. That's just messed up thinking.

Agreed, but should they be left to struggle and drown at sea? Yes or no.

And calling something a "hack" when they're just doing something correctly.

It's even better than that... "The only control or 'guardrails' that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades!" That's got to make the Trump top 10 surely. Hight IQ 😂🤣😂

Yep. Whitey has previously come across as a decent fella, but being comfortable with people drowning is a disgrace.

Are you suggesting that the top down orders were from above Tonda?

It didn't for me, and made the obvious point that there was no other sporting sanction (points wouldn't bite if we went up) so exclusion from the play offs picked itself as the only available sporting sanction.

The circumstances around the spying will doubtless be a factor.

Jeez Whitey, I didn't have you marked as a leave people to drown kind of guy.

I think the only answer to that is that we will never know the answer. It doesn't alter the fact, however, that we can't leave them to drown at sea just in case they're wrong uns.

I'll ask again, were you there? If so, say so. If not, stop saying what you claim happened. Anyways, I reckon you're the fella top middle.

Phone - tech, we weren't invited, thus intrusion. Our legal team ballsed it up first time round by, amongst other things, not recognising the seriousness. They won't be that stupid this time.

I disagree, vastly different. The similarities they'll see with Canada are direct breach of an express rule, use of prohibited tech and intrusion, top down coercion of staff. Leeds was different to that. Anyways, it only matters how the FA view it, but it won't be a light penalty.

That's another perspective. I think the issue will be a time / game suspension, with the Canadian precedent being time, and our approach being to look at the likely matches in that time.

Although I get that, we're in a playoff position after 7 games, and only 4 (ha!) off top 2. From here on in, it's in our hands.

Although I get the precedent on that, women's international teams usually play 8-12 games over a 12 month period. If they follow the time ban, that means a ban of 50 + games, which is vastly different. What Tonda did wasn't 5-6 times worse so doesn't warrant 5-6 times the ban.

Nice!

Amazing that people don't get this. He needed time in league 1 to ignite his career, and we weren't in league 1. He wasn't going to play for us last year, and had we gone up, he wouldn't have played for is this year.

Good. Normal people will continue to give them their full support, and let's be honest, the idiots who see them as having done wrong aren't likely to be RNLI donators.

And neither should it, or will it. The suggestion that they'd be selective about who they'd help is ridiculous. I'm staggered that it's even a discussion that the RNLI, or frankly anyone, should or shouldn't help certain people at sea. That they were escorted into our waters by the French is the disgrace, not that they were helped when they got there.

Ah, gotcha, my point addressed the lifeboat/ops.

If I was right leaning I'd probably say that too. Agreed re the second part.

We'll never know what happened...if it was Russia or Mossad (on the day we announced sanctions against Israel), that wouldn't be revealed.