Smirking_Saint

The hearing started Friday, they have until Tuesday to make a decision

Hopefully the leak doesn’t come from our side, probably wouldn’t be a great look

You also have the Canada womens precedent, although a different governing body. Its difficult, with the media circus I think the punishment will be ‘harsher’ than that of Leeds, its going to need to satisfy to baying mob, to a degree Do I think we’ll be expelled from the final ? Very unlikely… but I do think a significant fine and potentially a delayed points deduction, and maybe, if proven, sporting bans for any members of staff

Thats easy… just cancel the womens final

They need a demonstrable loss for that to be achieved tbh Which I think would be difficult

That’s just a regurgitation of that crap whatsapp message thats doing the rounds

Honestly what is it with Boro fans and this weird belief that Gibson is some sort of Don Corleone type figure that is able to pull strings everywhere I genuinely begun last Thursday feeling sorry for them and being embarrassed for what has happened but after this whole fiasco they might be one of my least favourite fan bases… theres nothing to them, no humour, no credit… just whine whine whine

Tbh Id imagine it was an instruction from the lead analyst, and there will be some form of disconnect between him and Spoors or Tonda which will allow the club to have a level of deniability atleast from a legal sense

When we talk about precedents we need to evaluate like for like circumstances Swindon fielding not one but two ineligible players doesn’t equate to watching a training session The only two precedents there have been are Leeds and Canada women, and as such Id expect similar outcomes

Yeah but not much… its why its so fucking embarrassing, because the risk doesn’t weigh well against the reward At most we’d see if Hackney was fit… thats about it, maybe penalty or set pieces at best.. its just not worth this aggro at all

I think if it has this much of an impact then you’d see two things happening.. 1. Every club would be doing it to gain an advantage, you’d see drones etc not a 17 yr old with a nokia and a clipboard 2. Training grounds would be completely locked down The fact the above isn’t happening tells me immediately that its not a big deal as far as advantage is concerned

He’s not part of the process

As much as Id love it to be, I find it completely implausible that this is a set up, if it is it’s absolutely batshit IMO, he was there, probably as instructed by the analysts, and thats it We’ll be fined or points deducted next time we’re in the championship and thats it

Everyone spies outside of the 72 hour window, I expect everyone tries inside it too Its a non story

Both GKs are shite, I was wrong that we can carry them into next season, but a lot of that is because of how frail defensively we are which means both of our naff GKs have to face too many shots Baz is getting hammered for last night, and he did flap at it, but lets not let Stephens and THb off the hook, that run should be tracked, we shouldn’t be asking a keeper to come out for that really Its just indicative of how bad we are this year, nobody takes responsibility anywhere

The fact that Stephens, despite saying there was no issues, was dropped/injured shortly after this tells me this was us

On this Season, I think most managers would be happy with our squad going into this year, comparatively to the other teams So in summary Still has absolutely failed

Downes, Jander, Charles are all top level CMs at this level GK I agree with, although I think if we are functioning at all defensively we get away with it No.9 is a problem, absolutely, we wasted so much money there instead of signing anyone with any pedigree and with all of them the best is probably Archer and we seem to utilise him atrociously

Im not really sure what Blackmore is on about if Im completely honest, and unfortunately Ive lost any access I used to at the club but Rasmus was previously quite involved, and was then sidelined at the same time Kraft was ditched Kraft, I believe, was heavily in favour of not replacing Wilcox, and was a decision backed by Parsons Rasmus’ current role is player exits and the overall multi club strategy… and Id say he is actually doing ok on that front, but he does fit as the arrogant ‘thinks he knows more than he does’ statement Overall I think SR and Spoors has actually done ‘ok’ enough this year, they made good signings, unfortunately signing Downs and Stephens contract are a huge detractor of their summer but not sure hiw much involvement Spoors had, if he was involved its fucking awful The signing of Still, as crap as he is, Id still say in the interest of balance looked a good appointment at the time, he was a well respected coach and was courted by some decent clubs… unfortunately hindsight tells us, for whatever reasons that he is just not up to it

Parsons and Rasmus are a problem

Can this narrative just die… Will Still isn’t being told to play a 5 atb, thats just complete shite In fact… if he’s being instructed to play a certain way, it still points to him being a terrible manager as he hasn’t installed any vision into us whatsoever And the last point.. why would Spoors sign players to suit a 4231 and then push Still into playing 5 atb ? It makes no sense SR are shit enough on their own to not need made up nonsense about tactical interference

Genuinely have no idea what he was trying to do He achieved nothing, if anything he took us backwards

You’ve misinterpreted me, he is clearly a very good ‘coach’ as he managed to get the players playing a very specific way almost completely on instinct Thats in the same way as Pochettino came in and managee to coach very advanced pressing triggers quickly That is the sign of good ‘coaching’, what you’re alluding to, i think, is the difference between a good coach and a good manager… Poch was both, Martin was an awful manager

You can all laugh at this but he hasn’t Im all for fucking him off, met him, hate him… but he’s in Turkey This was a Parsons/Spors appointment Alot of you guys like to latch onto stuff that’s not relevant tbh