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Still not sure how any saints fan of a certain age could like anything about swing Lowe.

Won't be garner as we were doing it prior to January. Reeves or Newton...

Sorry but I've been to the pub. Fact is there's some on here that give up too easily to bullying opponents. Wouldn't want them on the pitch for Saints. Besides all the "woe is me" and "horrific crime" stuff is there anyone really willing to suggest that the harsh punishment handed out by the "independent" panel actually fits the "crime"?

Just 255 on this poll btw it needs to be at least 1500+ to get a minor take on views.

Just passing on some info from a friend of someone who has spoken to some of the higher ups at Saints. Apparently the message from last week was that there hadn't been an expectation of FA charges. Do we know for definite that the FA is looking to charge us? Would rather contradict what Blackmore has said and may have changed since last week. Just letting people know.

Seeing as it started in December that probably rules Garner out.

The EFL did what?

Legend. Get your money on him being top scorer in the tournament. CYLE LARINS ON MY MIND!

...the usual fixture against Eastleigh, of course

It doesn’t matter if the training is tactical or not. The rule is about observing training within 72 hours. They brought the rule in because of what Bielsa did and had to be seen to be doing something.

You mentioned cup competitions. You were not specific.

Only because Shipman never went after Steve Gibson's nan. He knew where to draw the line.

People booking tables in pubs. FFS every table reserved in pub I'm in. Games gone with all the middle class twats here for ‘the footy’

Interesting snippet from @LeG on the 'Sport Republic reaction to Spygate' thread... Probably best to repeat on this thread in case it gets lost in the ether... Take your pick...

He’s the best friend Labour have got. Wanker.

They gave Savile a fucking knighthood.

Shipman was 215 undefeated too. Scandalous.

Aim HIGH Vote LOWE He's done very well and is one of the most active MPs in parliament Some of you lefties should like him as he'll take a fair number of votes from Farage

Yeah but if you think about it he’s right. What we’ve done is NOTHING compared to what Hitler did. Or Pollpot or even Peter Sutcliffe or Harold Shipman. Did they ever get kicked out of the play offs?

Nope.

I get to speak to a lot of fans of other clubs through work. Not one of them believes the punishment was fair. As a member of the public I could have been walking around outside Boro's training ground at any time and taking photographs yet no offence would have been committed. But the same thing done by a Saints employee results in the harshest of penalties. That is how mad it is

Wanker might have been one of the nicer things we called him.

I don't get the comparison to the Arsenal thing at all tbh. If you're doing an open session you're evidently not working on anything tactical. Otherwise why not stream every training session? It is weird that it's not a rule elsewhere but enough EFL clubs wanted for it to be brought in so they obviously felt that was an advantage to be gained.

It does rub it in though when you can view yesterday's arsenal training session on YouTube. Yes it's not EFL but it obviously doesn't provide much of a sporting advantage if the current premier League champions are happy to show their final training session ahead of the biggest game of their season to the entire world. The fact that we could do it one week, against man city, and not the next against Boro, is also a bit annoying. The idea that it is cheating is a bit much I think, it's breaking the rules, nothing more, and with much less sporting advantage than the likes of the rules that Leicester, west brom, bournemouth, man city, Newcastle have all broken.

There's a différence. The EFL can only punish it's club members. The FA can punish individuals. So any punishment handed to the club by the EFL is irrelevant to the FA if they feel that individuals need to be punished as well.