Saint86

I believe this is the accused / suspected: https://www.transfermarkt.com/jason-taylor/profil/trainer/126892#google_vignette Pretty sure it is him (the whistleblower), I looked him up as soon as it was rumoured we'd hired an analyst from Boro and got rid of them in December - which was only a couple of days after this story broke and before his name got leaked, and already he has deleted his linked in profile... Why delete your linked in profile before your name is even out there? Equally, fits in with Boro had limited but necessary information available to stitch saints up from the get go - "look out for salt" and the details of the Oxford incident, both reported on 7th may. Suspect Salt gave us up for the Eastleigh / Ipswich incident to save his own skin after the fact - as Taylor wouldn't have known about that. (The dates in the EFL report show that the initial incident Ipswich knew about in advance was the Oxford incident, which was just before we sacked Taylor / Taylor left the club).

Bielsa did the exact same thing as Eckert. Nothing has materially changed in 7years from the fa's perspective. There really isn't a leg to stand on for moaning about tonda costing us promotion, we were looking at a relegation scrap before he came in. It's gonna come down to whether he gets banned as to whether we keep him imo.

50/50 coin toss for me... Either something big is in the offing, or they're back to being paralysed by indecision and being inept again. After the whole Parsons Seppuku board room incident, it takes a leap of faith to think the club definitely make good calls this summer.

3 bottles by Boro this season? Surely?

A bunch of fans going up and streaming it live for public access on the internet would be brilliant...

Hellberg likely gone by Christmas. Absolute joke of a manager, and he's already played his crying card.

Get what you deserve boro, get ready for next season because the saints will be gunning for you.

I only know one Leeds fan, he messaged me immediately to say it was a harsh punishment and extend sympathies for it. Never had an issue with Leeds fans tbh, they were classy on the tube coming back from the 23/24 play off final as well.

I have wondered this. It's the Ipswich game at Eastleigh that makes me suspicious.

I don't disagree overly. Boro getting promoted opens up the EFL to more potential legal challenges. Next year in the prem will be brutal to survive in. Spurs won't be the mess they are again under de zerbi, forest won't have a European distraction and are likely to make some mega money on players like MGW and Anderson - and those 2 players show their recruitment is solid. Palace maybe will struggle? But then equally, they've had mateta out half the season, guehi left them in Jan, they've been distracted by Europe, and glasner has already announced he's checked out... The league was a mere distraction for them. Promotion could really be a mixed blessing this season. But we do absolutely have to get promoted next year. Could this be a bit like Leeds getting beaten by us, having a great year in the champ, and then getting promoted and staying up?

Southgate is probably the perfect opposite of tonda, son in law choir boy off the pitch, tactically inept on it, and a bottler to boot. No thanks.

Should Leeds have sacked bielsa?

The players can't really be that angry with him in truth. Not if they engage their brains. Before he came in they were staring at relegation... So they can't really blame him for fluffing up a promotion chance they wouldn't have had without him 🤷 . In summary, they were shit without him, incredible with him, and then he shit the bed and we went full circle... They make a fitting group I'd say.

👆👆👆 This in spades. As an aside, is guan still itk? If so, his comments about tonda the other day were interesting I thought.

Not sure that's true. Without Eckert we were nowhere near the playoffs and potentially facing a relegation scrap 🥲. Eckert almost got autos.