Boro 0-0 Saints - Match Thread

[tdmickey3]

13 minutes ago, Disco Stu said:

No Stephens is a huge blow. Not looking good for a clean sheet.

Why?

[23rdSaint]

Adam Blackmore is such a bore

[obelisk]

Radio Solent beating themselves sore with sticks. Had to turn Adam and Joe off.

[Whitey Grandad]

17 minutes ago, Secret Site Agent said:

If this man is bright enough to find the knoll, film the training,have an escape plan with change of clothes then surely he isn't dumb enough not to use a cheap second hand phone bought for cash and a data sim bought from Tesco ?

The more I go into this the more I realise how devious I am.

 

Or walk around Trafalgar Square for five minutes waving his phone in the air. Then resetting it remotely as soon as it's stolen.

Or get a mate to steal it from you.

[Disco Stu]

14 minutes ago, tdmickey3 said:

Why?

Wood - 25 90 minute appearances, 2 clean sheets

Edited 2 hours ago by Disco Stu

[CSA96]

2 minutes ago, obelisk said:

Radio Solent beating themselves sore with sticks. Had to turn Adam and Joe off.

Classic BBC stuff. Lewis Coombes doing the same last night, bleating on about Saints damaging their goodwill and public perception as a result of employee misconduct. Err, you work for the BBC mate, you would know...

Edited 3 hours ago by CSA96

[Doctoroncall]

2 hours ago, macca155 said:

Good point I feel better, but Leeds lost. If Saints win It'd imagine it might be brought up once or twice.

I didn't intend being a complete melt in my list, although clearly am.

My main point was that we can tough this out obviously, the real damage will come if the idiots gave been doing this all year.

Leeds were doing for half a season, Bielsa gave an in-depth press conference on it. How it added to the overall information but wasn’t crucial. 

[davefizzy14]

Strong line up, let's beat them convincingly! 3-0 to us - Scienza, Stewart and Larin to score 😊 COYR 😊

Edited 2 hours ago by davefizzy14

[Miltonaggro]

These Middlesbrough cunts on Sky - the state of it. Pure desperation. Also, every whine and bitch goes in the locker of a decent litigation lawyer’s process to drive a coach and horses through any bullshit ‘case’. Honestly this is pathetic from MFC and the media. 

Edited 2 hours ago by Miltonaggro

[Farmer Saint]

Hang on guys, I'm in their changing room bath and I can hear their team talk.

[Stripey McStripe Shirt]

Boro manager sounds a right smarmy cock 

[Saint NL]

Watching the buildup on sky sports and it's all spy gate drama. 

Boro manager said it hasn't affected their preparation 🤷

[SouSaint]

9 minutes ago, Disco Stu said:

Wood - 25 starts, 2 clean sheets

Laughable that Alfie House earlier in the season was calling him a Premier League CB in waiting. He's been mostly crap against Champ oppo this year. 

[Swaythling Saint]

Forget about the spy incident, focus on the game and deal with it later.  Seems like a massive distraction and a deliberate one.  Put in a performance today and bring it back to St Mary's next week, COYR 💪

[coalman]

4 minutes ago, Miltonaggro said:

These Middlesbrough cunts on Sky - the state of it. Pure desperation. Also, every whine and bitch goes in the locker of a decent litigation lawyer’s process to drive a coach and horses through any bullshit ‘case’. Honestly this is pathetic from MFC and the media. 

I have nothing but the utmost respect for anyone capable of watching the pre match buildup to any football match on Sky.

[RedArmy]

Tonda has got to be the worst manager you could want to have to go and face the press in this situation. 
 

His facial expressions are never aligned with what he’s saying. 

[Miltonaggro]

1 minute ago, Saint NL said:

Watching the buildup on sky sports and it's all spy gate drama. 

Boro manager said it hasn't affected their preparation 🤷

Also made a clear accusation before process. What a fucking idiot!

[obelisk]

Sky Sports have a verdict already - Saints guilty of something or other. They then turn to the 'Boro manager for comment and the response was along the lines of "what the hell are you on about"?

[Toadhall Saint]

1 minute ago, Saint NL said:

Watching the buildup on sky sports and it's all spy gate drama. 

Boro manager said it hasn't affected their preparation 🤷

I’m avoiding the build up - I’ll put it on at 12:30.

[Vancouver Saint]

Jeez - logging on from Spain where I'm on holiday - was looking forward to this two-leg semi-final...now, catching up with this spygate issue it's really taken the wind out of my sails.
I think this forum is underestimating the 'setting an example' stance the EFL will make of this incident.
A couple of questions remain for me - why has the culprit not been named? Seems like they've already confirmed he's a Southampton FC employee. I find it hard to believe he was acting as a lone wolf...even if top management genuinely didn't know the plausible deniability has to stop somewhere.
The other question is timing - was it 72 hours ahead of the game or less? Apparently there's a timing constraint. I presume it's less otherwise why all the fuss.
Either way it looks and smells bad - cheating is not the way to win.
What a terrible situation to put the players in. We must have been favourites to win given our form and could/should have been able to do this without cheating.
Now, I fear the worst - call me alarmist if you like - but I can see us being disqualified after the second leg. Really, really hope I'm wrong.

[saintant]

1 minute ago, RedArmy said:

Tonda has got to be the worst manager you could want to have to go and face the press in this situation. 
 

His facial expressions are never aligned with what he’s saying. 

Partly true but the first shot had him smiling and the way he swiftly changed that to ultra serious the second the first question about spygate came was superb viewing.

[obelisk]

Downes had better be aware that the ref will likely be more than willing to hand out a Saints red card this afternoon.

[Convict Colony]

No Hackney for them and Downes back, Larin to run riot and create space for Fellows and Leo.

With Boro frothing i think it will make our guys even more up for it.

[Convict Colony]

5 minutes ago, coalman said:

I have nothing but the utmost respect for anyone capable of watching the pre match buildup to any football match on Sky.

yeah im doing nothing until kick off am already bored of reading about it

[saint michael]

Cant stand the little rat man Phillips. Is he supposed to be there as balance for a saints guy on their sky team. 

[saintant]

You can be over-pumped for these big games and that will possibly happen to the Boro players.

[Miltonaggro]

2 minutes ago, Vancouver Saint said:

Jeez - logging on from Spain where I'm on holiday - was looking forward to this two-leg semi-final...now, catching up with this spygate issue it's really taken the wind out of my sails.
I think this forum is underestimating the 'setting an example' stance the EFL will make of this incident.
A couple of questions remain for me - why has the culprit not been named? Seems like they've already confirmed he's a Southampton FC employee. I find it hard to believe he was acting as a lone wolf...even if top management genuinely didn't know the plausible deniability has to stop somewhere.
The other question is timing - was it 72 hours ahead of the game or less? Apparently there's a timing constraint. I presume it's less otherwise why all the fuss.
Either way it looks and smells bad - cheating is not the way to win.
What a terrible situation to put the players in. We must have been favourites to win given our form and could/should have been able to do this without cheating.
Now, I fear the worst - call me alarmist if you like - but I can see us being disqualified after the second leg. Really, really hope I'm wrong.

If that were to happen SFC would commence legal proceedings and the EFL would lose the case. If proven it will be a fine.

[coalman]

22 minutes ago, Whitey Grandad said:

Or breach of privacy?

Not so much. They can ask. They can be refused. As I understand it, any handing over of data would be voluntary unless it winds up in civil litigation and is subject to discovery. Noting that while I've spent way too much of my adult life in the room with lawyers that I am not one.

[Turkish]

I didn’t realise our record was so shit against the other play off teams. Although we won 1 drew 3 against the top 2. 

[Saint NL]

1 minute ago, saint michael said:

Cant stand the little rat man Phillips. Is he supposed to be there as balance for a saints guy on their sky team. 

It should be Franny on there today, I bet he'd have something to say about spying

[benjii]

4 minutes ago, obelisk said:

Downes had better be aware that the ref will likely be more than willing to hand out a Saints red card this afternoon.

True, although it would be beyond funny if the ref gave us a bunch of dodgy decisions. 

[Miltonaggro]

Even Kevin Phillips, who is wheeled out as a ‘Saints’ connection, but rarely has a good word to say about the club, clearly knows he is surrounded by clueless idiots.

[bpsaint]

1 minute ago, Turkish said:

I didn’t realise our record was so shit against the other play off teams. Although we won 1 drew 3 against the top 2. 

Indeed, although most of those games came pre Tonda-ball I believe 

[Saint NL]

Boro fans madly booing the saints players warming up 😂

Going to be feisty. Need Downes to keep a cool head

[Saint Marky]

3 minutes ago, benjii said:

True, although it would be beyond funny if the ref gave us a bunch of dodgy decisions. 

Yeah hilarious, but unfortunately highly unlikely!

 

Edited 2 hours ago by Saint Marky

[Whitey Grandad]

3 minutes ago, benjii said:

True, although it would be beyond funny if the ref gave us a bunch of dodgy decisions. 

I hope we've paid him enough 😉

[StrangelyBrown]

1 minute ago, Saint NL said:

Boro fans madly booing the saints players warming up 😂

Going to be feisty. Need Downes to keep a cool head

Ha ha, can't believe something so trivial has blown up like this. What a bunch of melts!

[Toadhall Saint]

2 minutes ago, Saint NL said:

Boro fans madly booing the saints players warming up 😂

Going to be feisty. Need Downes to keep a cool head

If we keep cool heads we win.

[Saint NL]

Leo is such a nice guy, doing this interview in English, talking about his dad passing away and his story. Hard not to like him

[sfc4prem]

Just now, StrangelyBrown said:

Ha ha, can't believe something so trivial has blown up like this. What a bunch of melts!

Bunch of fucking gammons. Bet they all voted Brexit, Johnson and now Farage's Reform

[tdmickey3]

2 minutes ago, benjii said:

True, although it would be beyond funny if the ref gave us a bunch of dodgy decisions. 

Refs in this league give dodgy decisions every game,  nothing that has happened will make any difference to that

[tdmickey3]

1 minute ago, StrangelyBrown said:

Ha ha, can't believe something so trivial has blown up like this. What a bunch of melts!

Covered in northern shoulder chips

[do i not like fizzy pop]

We just need to go out and beat them 0-4 and put it to bed.

Followed with a 2-0 win Tuesday.

 

[Sheaf Saint]

26 minutes ago, Disco Stu said:

Wood - 25 90 minute appearances, 2 clean sheets

So if we sub him off on 89 minutes we should be fine, right?

[Saint Marky]

2 minutes ago, sfc4prem said:

Bunch of fucking gammons. Bet they all voted Brexit, Johnson and now Farage's Reform

Like the majority of the country?

[Disco Stu]

Just now, Sheaf Saint said:

So if we sub him off on 89 minutes we should be fine, right?

Depends what Quarshie's numbers are like.

[Osvaldorama]

4 minutes ago, sfc4prem said:

Bunch of fucking gammons. Bet they all voted Brexit, Johnson and now Farage's Reform

Nothing wrong with that. 

a lot wrong with being a boro fan though 

[Sheaf Saint]

3 minutes ago, Saint NL said:

Leo is such a nice guy, doing this interview in English, talking about his dad passing away and his story. Hard not to like him

I actually love him. Will be devastating to lose him if we don't go up.

[Miltonaggro]

5 minutes ago, Whitey Grandad said:

I hope we've paid him enough 😉

I’ve heard we’ve got photos of him in compromising positions. Old school industrial espionage! 

[Disco Stu]

As much as I'd love us to kill the tie today, I'm expecting a cagey affair like these first legs always are. I wouldn't be surpised by a 1-1 draw which I don't think would be a bad result to take back to St. Mary's.

Edited 2 hours ago by Disco Stu