Saint86

What we need to do is submit lowball offers for the likes of Malanda and Hackney all summer, but offer them silly wages. Will properly piss of boro 😁

They really are a superb case study into social media echo chambers and 2+2=5...

I think fans of all clubs would welcome a statement at lunchtime, so for once i hope boro fans have got something right... sadly all evidence to date suggests otherwise.

The only way the EFL face a lawsuit is if they kick us out. Boro have no reasonable avenue to sue them from what i can see?

And the other EFL play off finals? 😄

Or analysts in general... And to get our shit in order for spying properly in the prem next season - need it to be a well oiled machine for our championship title challenge in 27/28...

Boro fans seem convinced there is an efl statement coming out at 12:30...

Hahahaha, is this one actually spreading? My goodness, but they are a special bunch.

Demanded £40M odd, ended up with circa £20M. That was a clear and significant violation in the relegation fight. TV monies were a lot less in those days though.

To each their own, but nothing has really changed for saints. Boro can whip up all the media storms they want - all the matters is that we are in the premier league next season 🤷‍♂️. But just getting a verdict on the playoff final is not going to be the end of this by a long way.

This isn't going to go away for a while so get used to it. Win or lose on Saturday, we've crossed Gibson now - they'll be a legal case to follow this where he tries to sue us for loss of chance in the play off game. Boro's odds will be considered at circa 25% of winning the playoffs and gaining access to the premier league millions. (25% being £50M)... What percentage of that will we be deemed to have jeopardised through out spying offence is anyone's guess - 10% - 20% (so £5M-10M?). He'll be lodging that case whether we win or lose.

The narrative has thankfully turned in the past few days.

Think i would love it if we went for some kind of camouflage nod for the away kit if we get promoted... 😄

Saw one on social media just now. A boro fan had tried to go on to our tickets website to buy a ticket, saw the "not for sale" message (obviously because he wasn't eligible) and then started a whole thread about how we'd stopped selling tickets because we know we're getting kicked out - with lots of happy / crowing boro fans in the comments🤣

I have wondered this as well. It's the only major league with such a rule as far as I am aware.

Didn't the skate's takeover thread exceed 2000+ pages?

Boro fans still convinced we're getting kicked out...

You understand that that report has been specifically commissioned by Middlesbrough to represent their standpoint and released to try to prejudice the independent enquiry that they aren't a party to, right? It's not a reliable report, and it's also yet another example of Boro/Gibson putting information out there to feed to the media / EFL etc to help whip up a storm.

Absolutely not. We give him a pay rise and do a "tonda on tour" sticker attack around that filthy scabby shit hole on the side 🤷

I would say they are now in conflict with uefa regulations. I don't know what will happen now but saints absolutely have case against them. I wonder if we will accept a minor sanction from th efl in an agreement to let this lie and go away. Or whether solak will actually go back at Boro? I hope and would love it to be the latter, but obviously don't know if we are able to. Alternatively the EFL and independent commission could be swayed by the media storm and throw the book at us, but I sincerely hope we blow the whole process up legally if that happens.

Sounds like you trying to say that William Salt advised Eckert to switch to 4 at the back and sign a proper GK, and that it is infact Salt that is responsible for saving the season? 😅. Or maybe we sacked this Middlesborough scab analyst Taylor in January, and immediatley we turned the season around. And then not content at being sacked for being shit, he's decided to try and stitch us up with Boro. Certainly fishy that he's the one involved in all this from a "whistle blower" standpoint.

It won't happen, but if you think what amounts to a £200M+ fine is proportionate punishment for a young lad stood behind a fence with a mobile phone watching the u21s pitches, you've utterly lost the plot IMHO and have caved into this pure conjecture media shit storm that Boro have whipped up. Let alone the rumoured points deductions. If we've done it, a sensible mid ground punishment would be somewhere in the ball park of a £200k-£500k fine and maybe a 2-3 points deducted next season in the EFL (to satisfy the wolves and make an example of us). The EFL should then use their brains and remove this stupid rule as no other major league has it and watching training is common place - but that won't happen because they are incapable of missing any opportunity to create problems with half arse rules. This hasn't cost Boro their place at wembley, but we would have misbehaved enough to have caused a stink for the EFL..although I'd wager Boro's antics are pissing the elf off a fair amount as well tbh.

Hopefully they've been given a view that it's not happening and needs to try and save face.

Blackmore making a tit of himself again here. Still doesn't know any facts (and if he does he should shut up anyway) and he's on social media calling the club morally repugnant... Meanwhile you have all and sundry in the game saying it's standard for analysts to be watching training, it's common throughout Europe and South America etc, and the premier league (the richest League in the world) doesn't even bother with a rule to stop it. Saints are the victims at this point. Any minor offence we may have commited pales in significance to the media witch hunt and national defmation that Boro have whipped up. Normally we deserved a slap on the wrist for the initial offence... We've even got some people acting like the equivalent of a £100M (sporting chance) to 200M fine (assuming we win) and points deduction is in some way justified FFS. The entire club is trying to stay professional, keep quiet, trying to let this wash past us and deal with the inquiry and prepare for the playoffs... And Blackmore is out there feeding the media storm and calling the club morally repugnant because it's aledged that a young lad from the club stood at a boundary fence with his mobile phone... aledged - still. The man is an idiot at times. He knows less than the telegraph journalist that said we had a spy hiding in the bushes with professional photography and sound equipment....