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Whatever the opposite of a blinder is, he has played it.

Yep, him and the club got absolutely owned throughout this entire process by Gibson and Boro . The silence we assumed was controlled assurance of the situation, was in fact total incompetence and cluelessness at how to diffuse it

The punishment would still be the same. All the club needed to do was put out a rather sarcastic statement stating ‘Boro was a leaky sieve and proper evidence will be provided to the commission. That then puts a seed of doubt into the narrative in the media.

On every level none of this would have happened without him so it is difficult. Unfortunately it boils down to the catastrophic decision to send someone to watch a team ahead of a knockout tournament. But that comes from the culture that was created that seemed to make spying a normal / needed way of prepping for matches. All on Tonda. What a way to wreck a reputation - his and ours.

Useless, useless prick.

If in a parallel universe we sacked Tonda and staff before Boro game and held our hands up, do you think punishment would have been as severe? I feel one interesting about this entire thing is how we lost control of the narrative or never tried to own it. Boro and Gibson were giving the press everything, controlling the narrative. That is another black mark on Parsons, he has to be sacked.

In the aftermath of this saga's conclusion, I confess I'm at a loss for words to express what I'm feeling—a mix of sadness, grief, and uncertainty. The fact that the decision is finally final means we can begin to rebuild and move on, learning from all of this. It will take time, and no one knows how many weeks, months, or even years it will take. We'll need to be strong, all of us together... From Valenciennes, I feel like a little brother watching his big brother struggle, and I'm very worried. I will always be behind you, and I sincerely hope that all of this will allow this great club, Southampton, to quickly return to the light. Stay strong, everyone.

Will the appetite be there for these players to go again next season? I'm not sure.

Agree 100%

I'll say this. The redemption arc of this story is going to need to something else.

If Priestman got 12 months ban, how long for Tonda? 18 or 24 months considering the punishment the club got?

Absolutely brilliant. Well done.

I’m gonna give up watching a sport that is clearly “fixed”. Arsenal winning the league, Celtic winning the league. It’s obvious the Championship has its promoted teams all lined up .

When you change managers and your leadership team so often there should be no surprise when you have no corporate governance.

He figured out how to get the players playing for each other which no one has done since Ralph. Then lost it all through stupidity and ignorance. It's a shame but he has to go as does anyone who was part of it. We've given the opportunity of a fair hearing. Next season we have the Sport Republic manager merry go round to look at again.

@trousers you know I love a told you so post but you’re spot on asking this. At the weekend, I made a couple of posts suggesting this has to be more widespread. I refuse to believe we were naive to the rules. Again, I was shot down questioning the grey areas of the 72 hour ban and the reasons for Boro claiming to have more evidence from other clubs. We didn’t come up with this “genius” spying plan that’s ultimately got us the worst possible sanction. We’re bang to rights over the whole scenario but I’m interested to see what opens up as a result of this.

Yeah we fkd up and did some dumb stupid but that crying Smoggy knobend Gibson is a KING RAT.... and Middlesborough for me will forever be known as the RATS No one likes a cheat but everyone hates a moaning snivelling RAT The Middlesborough RATS .....get the word around!! ...... supporters from every club need to know this SAINTS FOREVER !!!! Pin this as well 😉

The hate against tonda is turning my stomach a bit, if we ended up just getting a fine and the sanction didn’t go against us nobody would be saying a bad word against him .. because it hasn’t gone our way everyone wants him gone. We only scraped into the playoffs because of the unbeaten run he took us on anyway without that we would still be in the champion next season anyway. Pressurising the club into sacking him cos you want blood is not the answer if you want results next season

No chance

All I will say is we hired Nathan Jones a week after Villa hired Unai Emery. That sums up the past five years for me.

Why is he still here? He should wake up to a text that says, "F- off."

Don't you remember that amazing assist on day 1 though... Also, his last point of the season, I might add.

Those fans who've been putting cream in their carbonara deserve every bit of this misery.

And Rasmus (guilty or not).

Yeah, he is out of contract at end of June