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Yep, as good as it was to get a draw in the first leg i actually think Boro are more dangerous as the away team , they're a good side , penalties is a good shout

It would almost be funnier if our press officer came out after the same question five times in a row and said “Are you really that thick? There is due process and it would be wrong to comment”. I don’t blame them for walking out, not storming as journos reported. They were absolutely hounded with the same bullshit questions time and time again.

They are very good away from home so it's going to be a tough game. Might go to penalties I reckon.

5/6/7-0 and maybe the media frenzy will look different. I’m more nervous about this game. I think we will win, but the media, not local, national now, all what Saints to be punished and with that in mind - fail.

There's definitely a big PR issue where it feels like they're coming for us from all angles, need a no one likes us we don't care attitude

Who on here was bashing one out furiously saying he should be our next manager? Basically Russell Martin, got to a good position then shat the bed when it mattered.

Nice touch by the club for the away end on Tuesday 👍🏻

Surely no chance he did it off his own back. I know SR employ absolute cretins but that would just be a whole different level of stupidity.

Well everything about this whole affair is full of massive loop holes and contradictions including most of what has come from the Boro camp. My guess is there's a lot more to come out yet.

If anything we'd deserve a higher penalty for such a ridiculous defence

The amount of journos on Twitter scathing at Tonda and Sibley walking out the post-match presser is ridiculous. They’re all retweeting each other now saying about lengthy bans, second leg at Boro, a bye for Boro etc. Big wankfest amongst the media for this.

He'd have to be sacked if he did it as a lone wolf. If he was under instructions from the club and if you were him, would you accept the sacking, the reputation hit to your career in football or would you expose the lie?

It’s just all a distraction and that’s what pisses me off - they are ignoring they fcked up the league and didn’t win at home from January to Watford game a couple of games ago! This is giving them something to cling to and some of the suggestions for us spying 24 hours later than allowed is nuts you get bellends like Austin, Huckerby and Deeney chance to throw shit. Just why this happened is so stupid and needless after 19 games and Fulham, Arsenal and Man City.

The lone wolf theory doesn’t hold much water if the guy is a staff member. We’re to believe that he’s had a day off from work on a weekday, travelled hundreds of miles to the site of our next game on his own, and decided to do some impromptu scouting without telling any of his workmates or bosses. Sure, sounds believable.

If the press and football pundits get the slightest wind of an NDA being signed they'll be all over it and will portray it as us admitting our guilt which would be fair enough. Think an NDA in these circumstances would be risky for the club.

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Massively looking forward to this, and the boro tears after we dick them. We spy where we want.

Are you organising it?

We obviously did it and are just working behind the scenes trying to get our story straight for whatever we figure will be the path of least punishment. The lone wolf story won't get us off completely but would have an element of plausible deniability which will mean Tonda and the seniors can stay clean, and we probably get a hefty fine but that's it. My guess would be that at the moment there is a conversation happening behind the scenes between the club and the analyst in question that goes something along the lines of "you take the fall, come out and say you did it off your own back without the knowledge of any seniors, take a two year ban from football and in return we'll sort you out with a nice fat pay-off that will more than make up for the damage to your reputation. Oh and sign this NDA which means if you ever talk about it to anyone we can sue you." 'Pin it on the intern and pay them off in the background' is the oldest trick in the book, because it usually works. I've seen it done plenty of times when the stakes of coming clean are too high, or someone in management has royally fucked up but is too valuable to lose. There's so much money sloshing around in football that a few hundred grand to take the fall and keep your mouth shut is perfectly plausible. And if he's really a young kid intern fresh out of uni and almost certainly without a pot to piss in, that could work very nicely for all concerned. If I was a betting man, that's how I would bet it will play out. And if I was in charge of trying to handle it, it's what I'd do.

There's only one analyst pictured on the official website. If it can be proved he wasn't there then surely there is no case to answer as their whole complaint against us is based on a guy who has an alibi 🙂 Maybe they should have got their facts right before shouting the odds.

4 times as many defeats as Russell Martin. Oh, how they must regret getting rid of Russ....actually, no. They don't regret that one jot. 🙂

The headloss from boro fans and local journo's has been fucking hilarious. Massively insecure and over the top and just makes you think of entitled children. Always thought they were a decent enough bunch and a lot less weird than the geordies close by, but their behaviour just marks them out full on noddy modern football fans. I mean calling for us to be kicked out of the play offs, calls for no home fans, asking for us to pay compensation to half the league... and it's grown adults doing it. Properly, properly strange behaviour They're going to be fucking livid when they see our new scout tbf

Difficult and complex area, but I’d assume the club might have to demonstrate that they’d provided some guidance over the ‘ethics’ of ‘scouting’ etc or show measures in place to completely distance themselves from it. Many industries and professions have regulatory training to ensure compliance. Always seems it’s only partly educational, but also an arse covering exercise so that in the event of falling foul they can point out that they’ve done all in their power to prevent occurrences. But I’m probably talking out of my arse.

Indeed and / or have a little tete a tete beforehand with a NDA agreed upon. What most of the Boro numpties don’t realise is the EFL committee has no legal power or remit, but Saints actions in resolution do.

It’s all unravelling a bit for Danny Rohl. 3 league defeats on the spin and now guaranteed they’ll finish third in the league. Not all of his own making of course but it’s certainly been a terrible end of season for them.