Saints Expelled from Playoffs

[Whitey Grandad]

1 minute ago, Dr Who? said:

My friend just said 3 upwards. With the strongest on the bottom. 

Ta 😲

[Dr Who?]

Just now, trousers said:

[ Trousers... Resist the Kenneth Williams gif... Resist!!! ]

Do you have him on standby. Ok with the strongest underneath the other 2. Better? 

[Dr Who?]

So is anyone going to watch the final. I’m not, but will probably be back by kick off. Might watch the Scottish final, but cannot stand watching Celtic win another trophy. Looking forward to watching Bolton v Stockport and Salford v County though. But I do love my lower and non league footy! 

[trousers]

3 minutes ago, Dr Who? said:

Do you have him on standby.

I always have Kenneth cocked and ready to stick up...

[Holmes_and_Watson]

1 hour ago, AlexLaw76 said:

My cousins husband works at a championship club, and is fairly influential.

trying to get info out of him has been hard but he did tell me yesterday that it is well known in the league that Saints are pretty full on with the peeping into other teams training, regularly breaching the 72 hour rule. He said that other teams in the league would put additional measures in place in the build up to playing Saints, such as dummy training drills etc. 

also said that other clubs have caught us out but no photographic or video proof, hence why “they won’t get involved”. Also, clubs are careful not to go in too hard publicly as football changes quickly.

Last things he said is that we have been the biggest advocates of fairness and fair play at various EFL meetings, very high horse type of stuff, which has allowed others to find our current situation both amusing and predictable.

 

Just a thanks for that post. It gives us a lot more about what's been going on.

[sotonjoe]

2 minutes ago, Dr Who? said:

So is anyone going to watch the final. I’m not, but will probably be back by kick off. Might watch the Scottish final, but cannot stand watching Celtic win another trophy. Looking forward to watching Bolton v Stockport and Salford v County though. But I do love my lower and non league footy! 

How or why on earth would anyone actually watch it? Surely radio silence until full time, check score then either watch highlights and laugh if hull won or simply pretend it never happened of the lot won.

[Sheaf Saint]

15 minutes ago, trousers said:

I always have Kenneth cocked and ready to stick up...

Along with Bill Murray, poised and ready to spring erect from his bed?

[trousers]

4 minutes ago, Sheaf Saint said:

Along with Bill Murray, poised and ready to spring erect from his bed?

Come again..? 🤔

[Saint Marky]

As shit as we are all feeling today, imagine how our players are, especially as this was none of their doing, dark times.

[SW5 SAINT]

Currently on Marylebone station, someone with a red MFC shirt barged in front of me in Greggs. 🤬

[Winnersaint]

53 minutes ago, sfc4prem said:

Would this press-led vitriol have been the same if it were a bigger club like Aston Villa?

As I've posted before we're big enough for people to take notice but small/localised enough for most not to care, so in essence probably not.

[skintsaint]

3 minutes ago, SW5 SAINT said:

Currently on Marylebone station, someone with a red MFC shirt barged in front of me in Greggs. 🤬

Your fault for being in Greggs. I get into Waterloo around 4pm...so they shouldn't be any boro fans around at the time. Just later tonight I hope to see them in the hundreds, all dejected!  

[SaintsLoyal]

52 minutes ago, trousers said:

Not that I'd encourage it, but he used to have a LinkedIn page (by all accounts) so whoever knows how to get hold of old versions of webpages ought to be able to dig that up...

 

yeah i tried that on wayback but doesnt do linkedin

[Dman]

15 hours ago, HedgeEnder said:

The information I’ve seen is 100% true and is from a former senior high court Judge via a friend who is a KC and Judge. It clearly wouldn’t make us any friends though!

Any more to share on this? Or was it just a case of after work beers in the sun getting to your head? 
 

If you have any info to share, firstly share it with the club. Secondly, why would you not share it on here (we might be more competent than the legal clown the club pay…) 

[Window Cleaner]

1 hour ago, Stripey McStripe Shirt said:

Whilst they won't admit it, it must feel so hollow for Boro being at Wembley today. Whilst I'd love to be promoted I'd hate it if the circumstances were reversed.

I really doubt this assertion. Boro will be content and even more so when they win this afternoon. Hull aren't at all good and shouldn't be anywhere near accession the Premier League.

[AlexLaw76]

Boro will win comfortably.

good luck to them, they have done nothing wrong 

[Dman]

1 minute ago, AlexLaw76 said:

Boro will win comfortably.

good luck to them, they have done nothing wrong 

Lol, good bait. 

[Lighthouse]

56 minutes ago, sadoldgit said:

If Gibbo had sent someone to check us out in the same circumstances I wouldn’t have given a toss. As Eckert said, the game is all about what happens between 22 players on the pitch when it comes down to it.

Makes you wonder why the best clubs in the world have £100m training facilities really. Why not just save the money, buy all the lads a PureGym membership and get them to turn up with their boots on a match day.

59 minutes ago, sadoldgit said:

As said earlier, it is all a bit hollow for Middlesbrough today. They haven’t made the final through merit, they are there through a courtroom. Hardly a great sporting achievement!

You can try and tell them that as they celebrate promotion back to the PL if you like.

[Sheaf Saint]

31 minutes ago, trousers said:

Come again..? 🤔

I expect he did, yes

[Whitey Grandad]

12 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

Boro will win comfortably.

good luck to them, they have done nothing wrong 

Apart from entrapment, you mean.

[Lighthouse]

2 minutes ago, Whitey Grandad said:

Apart from entrapment, you mean.

Knowing we were going to cheat is not entrapment. If we had an email inviting some of our back room staff up too Teeside for tea, biscuits and a guided tour of their facilities, where we were invited to watch them train and take photos if we liked, with everything else that subsequently happened, then we’d have an argument.

[trousers]

Just now, Lighthouse said:

we had an email inviting some of our back room staff up too Teeside for tea, biscuits and a guided tour of their facilities, where we were invited to watch them train and take photos if we liked

Ooh... Now that's intriguing.... Source? 

[Holmes_and_Watson]

43 minutes ago, skintsaint said:

Your fault for being in Greggs. I get into Waterloo around 4pm...so they shouldn't be any boro fans around at the time. Just later tonight I hope to see them in the hundreds, all dejected!  

Try not to wear any of your best footwear. Wouldn't want to see them damaged from the floods of tears (hopefully).

[sockeye]

Classy

[ant]

Eurgh. Supposed to be at Beer Merchants now, sipping ill-advised pre-match imperial stouts at their Omnipollo takeover.

Thankfully managed to get a few online, so today's not entirely fueled by FOMO. 

Enjoy the sunshine and don't get sucked into doom scrolling, folks. ✌️

[Lard]

1 hour ago, Dr Who? said:

My friend just said 3 upwards. With the strongest on the bottom. 

“Strongest on the bottom”….easily remedied with lashings of lubricant. 
Allegedly. 🤷🏻‍♂️ 

[Teamsaint1]

Just wondering  what sorts of  litigation and  FA / EFL action we might still be open to. 

I imagine that anybody and everybody who thinks they might have a claim is looking at the possibilities.