Saint86

It is unfortunately part and parcel of match preparation on the continent / abroad, and is quite literally the work environment he developed within - i.e., its the sort of coach he is 🤷‍♂️. Its only the EFL that has this ridiculous rule - and just look at the Arsenal comments crying about the GKs having penalty taker "cheat sheets"... you start making these stupid rules and all of a sudden people want new rules and start saying things are unfair. The reality is that clubs should be allowed to use these routes if they think they can gleam a benefit out of it - its a competitive sport - Tonda is a winner who was going after any information that he can gleam from analytical work. All these rules should be stripped away imo - Otherwise where do you draw the line? Should we just ban analysts outright, not allow keepers to study past penalties or keep notes, or stop clubs monitoring real time health data? Not all clubs can afford those resources or implement it equally right? so must impact the integrity of the game...

As @James G posted in the spygate thread, if we keep Tonda we will move past this and it will largely be forgotten. Boro, though, will aways be remembered as the side that spent circa 270days in the top 2, lost the semi final, and lost the final of the playoffs. Thats a forever pub quiz question that will be attached to them forever 😄

There is actually a post on there attacking both Eckert and Solak's grasp of the English language 😄

I think that fundamentally, their problem is that they're from Middlesborough. A terminal condition. Will be funny when we smash their promotion hopes to pieces next season.

Obviously Boro have a thread on this, apparently he's a psychopath 😄 Tonda speaks | FMTTM

Yeah, but if he backs Tonda (and fights for / saves his career in England with the FA), then he's potentially got an elite manager with a huge debt to him. That's a fairly unique occurrence in football. A lot of ifs and maybes to come, but this could be the start of something special for saints for the next few years - one part of that is the fans rallying together and being behind the manager and club.

I mean, I'd resign him for the money. Ballard, Larin,, Stewart is a decent from 3 for this level. Value for money, Ballard has his whole career ahead of him, is home grown, and we have a sell on fee discount.

Solak doing his part to say the right words to try and galvanise the fanbase and club there... There is a way forward where everyone pulls together... Who knows, get promoted next season and it may even carry in into the prem and repair the bond between SR and the fans. As a club and fans, we have been guilty of trying to be media darlings and everyone's favourite underdogs for years - that isn't an option for us anymore. May do us some good.

Because our CEO had already admitted to everything.

Any legal case against the EFL is not going to start with "we accept everything, and we acknowledge the panel's right to award the punishment". If anything, i would read it as us trying to mitigate any further damage, draw a line under it, keep Tonda and the coaching/analyst teams in place, and discourage the FA from bringing in external oversight of first team coaching/scouting departments. I.e., we could make this very messy for the EFL, lets all just move on.

The biggest surprise i get with social media, is its repeated ability to surprise me with just how thick most of the population are.

It's a pretty shit opening to a legal response. Basically accepting everything that matters and saying the panel was entitled to reach the punishment it did. Everything else in there is just bitter last words that carry no weight after the fact.

Think it's really important to remember Parsons and co were on half time and very little has moved on since last week. He works really hard and loves the club don't forget. That's all that matters when overseeing a total business and sporting calamity of this scale.

Salt and Taylor, surely?

Reads like the club have just browsed the spygate thread on here and rehashed a few points into a statement... They haven't done that right?