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I mean, I'd resign him for the money. Ballard, Larin,, Stewart is a decent from 3 for this level. Value for money, Ballard has his whole career ahead of him, is home grown, and we have a sell on fee discount.

Solak doing his part to say the right words to try and galvanise the fanbase and club there... There is a way forward where everyone pulls together... Who knows, get promoted next season and it may even carry in into the prem and repair the bond between SR and the fans. As a club and fans, we have been guilty of trying to be media darlings and everyone's favourite underdogs for years - that isn't an option for us anymore. May do us some good.

Partly answering my own question here. Solak was just answering the journalists questions and whilst we might be confident he won’t be banned don’t know for certain to state that expressly in an interview. Also suggests any ban will be met with a well prepared legal team this time.

Interview with Dragan on the BBC suggests we got the initial response wrong due to the short timescales to respond (12 hours). Taking the interview at face value, the spying stuff was only known about by the coaching / analyst teams, and only happened three times.

Taking Solak’s words at face value suggests they don’t know what’s happening with a potential fa ban and that is currently hanging over us as a change of manager at an unknown time. The club needs to get on top of that one way or another, it can’t be left open ended too much longer into the summer.

Glad they’ve all been back at work today after a lovely half term break and can start sorting out the shit storm they’ve caused. Season ticket renewals out this week? https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cq6pn58pmn4o

Dan Roan is 100% waking up with a horse's head.

Got a real nice solution for you hypo. Delete your social media platform. HTH.

Love this - well done big man!

Big Drag getting stuck in. Love it.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cq6pn58pmn4o Big Dragan has spoken!

Boro fans on social media really starting to piss me off with their ongoing whining. Calling for relegation and saying how awful it is. Just fuck off. I hope we keep Tonda for that reason alone.

Do you know why his brother not getting done for perverting the course of justice? I can’t work that out.

This.

I agree today's statement is generally weak for a number of reasons and it really wouldn't have taken much effort to stick a paragraph in recognising and acknowledging the supporters, but there was an apology in the original statement from a week ago. Club statement: League Arbitration Panel appeal | Southampton FC Official Site "We know how painful this moment will be for our supporters, players, staff, commercial partners and the wider community who have given so much backing to the team throughout the season and we apologise once again to everyone impacted by this." and "We would like to place on record our sincere thanks to our supporters for the support, patience and loyalty they have shown throughout an incredibly difficult period."

Why is the Canadian Women's team judgement/punishment seen as the marker against which Tonda will be judged? How does one sporting authority's judgement influence the decision of another, are there certain authorities that hold greater weight internationally than others?

Wouldn't shock me to hear Boro paid for his train fare home 🙂

Enjoy those (and 2032 euros) before we have to suffer the 2034 sportswashing World Cup. Talk of moving that to January to allow for Ramadan. Another tournament that absolutely reeks of FIFA corruption.

Indeed. If Winnie is not smart enough to appreciate that he shouldn't have got involved then he's not smart enough to take part in decisions of such importance.

Just watched it. Agree, the police should have realised Henry wasnt right just by his slurred speech and lack of movements. They haven't helped themselves here. Digwa and family are deplorable. The knife used was also one that causes more of a puncture wound from what I've read and it led to internal bleeding.

It also begs the question of why the Boro photographer was prowling around with a powerful zoom lens and decided that some guy with a phone camera 400 yards away could only have been a spy.

No idea if they are but if they are looking to start legal action an apology at this point would probably be quite unhelpful. Besides, I had they had a full staff meeting soon and weren't planning a statement beyond this generic response one until after that.

Oh leave poor Phil alone, he’s just had a lovely week off because he’s so tired from loving Saints so hard that he needed a rest, despite the club burning and the fans left without any answers. Poor guy can’t catch a break, is it not enough that the paid club historian has already told us how much Phil loves the club and to not hate on him. Oh, most of us saw straight through that didn’t we….

I think the whole statement reeks of bullshit, waffle and no apology, and with no apology there is no real acknowledgment that the club has done anything wrong. The club has. Until there is an apology it just writes as a stroppy teenager that has had his computer taken away and that “I’m so hard done by!” The club needs to out this shit to bed now and start focusing on getting people back onside.

Not sure Solak would consider that reason enough to shell out the monumental legal fees they will be charging.