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What would the punishment have been if we had lost the semi final? Or would just not being in the playoff final have been enough specifically in relation to the Middlesbrough incident.

I will be concerned if Stewart and Latin are withdrawn or delayed from meeting up with their countries squads. Mind you I assume that the other players are away on their hols now anyway?

It might sound strange but I’ll be more gutted if Middlesbrough win and gain promotion than us being expelled. If they go up after all the shenanigans from them exploiting the apparent seriousness of our misdemeanour I’ll be livid, if they lose it will be karma.

I hope that he doesn’t have ‘evidence’ of many other instances of us spying on other clubs training.

If it’s not against the rules in the EPL, is it against the rules in the FA cup? If not then why treat our individuals differently for the same actions that would be ok in the EPL? I know that it is outlier EFL rules broken but it seems double standards if the FA apply actions differently.

I really hope that Hull win the playoff final. If Middlesbrough win it will be a win for media hype and a losing semi finalist getting promoted and protestation from Hull.

If we lose P&O cruises sponsorship I guess that Cheetos cheesy snacks will be very keen to be our shirt sponsor 😂

If we had won the playoff on Saturday the ruling is very harsh and over the top but if we had lost it’s actually quite light with no financial penalty. Why did we admit to the other 2 matches, did the efl have evidence for us to answer to? However IMO the efl / ruling panel has been overly severe in their punishment for the crime committed. If the appeal today, with different panel members, is focused on the punishment I am still naively optimistic that our expelling from the playoff will be reversed, but pessimisticly we’ll probably go on to lose in the match on Saturday anyway.

It is really strange how the kick off time hasn’t been confirmed when the fixture and date has been known for all of the season.

We spy where we want we spy where we want we are Southampton we spy where we want

Even though we’ve beaten Wrexham twice already this season, I wouldn’t want us to play them in the playoff final with all the media circus around it and they could get their own back for the our earlier wins.

Was always going to happen, we couldn’t clear it

When I did it came out with a 43% chance of a Saints win

Any news on what happened to Stephen’s in the build up to the match? Maybe a warm up injury or precaution after something not feeling quite right.

I was on the back row as well and could see most of the pitch including the goals. However couldn’t quite see the near side corner area to my left and only just not the far touch line, it was comical seeing us fans ducking down to get a better view for throw ins.

There are currently no mid week championship games for us for the 2 weeks after the fa cup match. So the Wrexham match could be rescheduled from the Monday to the Tuesday or Wednesday, depending when our cup match is, and the Ipswich match the following mid week.

Maybe the football authorities should be banned from having mid week league games before and after cup rounds, there would be a better chance of full strength teams being fielded then. And on another subject maybe only the Premier League should have International breaks to avoid the amount of mid week matches in the Championship, I know that many teams would lose players, like we would, but so be it.

At the pre Charlton press conference Tonda said that Welington will be out for at least a couple of weeks.

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It’s only because we were losing the other 26 matches last season before 90+ minutes

I seem to remember he picked Quarsie for the last Leicester game in November for his speed against quick Leicester counter attacks, maybe the same again but the HB Stephen’s partnership has developed nicely in recent matches when playing 4 at the back.

Has there been an Eckert Press Conference for this? Link? I’ve looked on Saints YouTube channel and website.

Cyle will need to earn a starting place in the team. From the information I’ve seen/heard so far he’s come here expecting to get many minutes on the pitch I.e. starting not a last 25 minute sub. No doubt there will be some rotation during busy game periods but if he settles ok does Eckert plan to normally start him and have injury prone Stewart as the sub replacement mid 2nd half? Other reports I’ve read have stated that he has thrown a strop at times if things aren’t going his way, which would cause problems if he doesn’t get the minutes to make his chances of making the Canada WC squad. As I previously stated though his performances will need to justify starting. My 800 post, it’s only taken me 17 years to get there 🎉🥳

According to SSPN Wrexham are after 2 strikers, one from Barnsley who has scored 16 goals this season and one from Sheff Wednesday. They seem to have made some good decisions on recruitment during their journey up the leagues, whether these are or not remains to be seen if they do go through.

Watford (H) win Leicester (A) lose Charlton (H) win QPR (H) draw Sheff Weds (A) win 10 points from 15. Could interchange the Charlton and QPR results but draw one and win one and I don’t remember us doing well at Leicester. 10 points won’t be enough though to get us much nearer the playoff places.