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That’s because someone of your ilk brings it up every 6 months. fuckin tedious.

MLT such a wally isn’t he 😂

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We were 3-1 up and he got an assist for the 4th? I’ve watched him twice for the 21s in the break. Crap in both. He’s not good enough, and I worry we’re one Larin injury away from a problem.

The original two. Wasnt aware they’d split, if they have. Havent listened since that day. Whoever the two muppets were were on the verge of tears 😂

You know one of those two didn't do the podcast at that time, right?

Two of the biggest bellends in terms of podcasting. I remember when we beat Leeds at Wembley, they were absolutely devastated. 😂

It's not just a way of looking at it, it's what the FA have said. Not sure there is any evidence of bias in the EFL stuff is there? Other than fans convinced that because it went Boro's way and not ours then it must be a conspiracy theory. As has been pointed out on here before, us being bang to rights is probably more of a factor that someone having a connection to Boro. The report today hasn't exonerated us or Eckert remember, it's confirmed pretty much all relevant detail required, we broke the rules and a sporting sanction is appropriate.

That's certainly one way of looking at it, however to my mind there seems to be no way of squaring the EFL Middlesborough connection circle... how could Eckert have got a totally impartial hearing at the EFL with that in place?

I really wonder who and how we pursued the credible alternatives, was Lankshear a possibility, and who else ? Did we look at Ure for example ? Or did we spend too long pursuing the Serbian bloke from Lazio ? Spertsyan Mk II it seems.

Bristol City ? Deserves credit for that don’t you think? Lincoln, inexcusable I agree. Overall fearing you’ll be proved right mind, but trying to give some balance in assessing him on limited appearances.

Think Eckert would receive a harsher punishment in that instance. It's pretty clear from the report that the EFL punishment and Eckerts contrition are the two main factors for reduction and suspension. Think the idea that todays ruling is a bad reflection the EFL ruling is a wrong one in that sense. FA had two things the EFL didn't, a previous punishment and the time to interview Eckert a few months on whilst he's reflected, shown remorse and worked on his understanding.

There are so many of these types all over the internet - no idea who they are, plenty of clickbait around, pft, who cares. The only podcast I bother with is our own Total Saints which is decent.

This is one reason you really have to question our response to it, and legal advice we brought in. Why didn’t we create over the possible fact members of the panel might be conflicted before the event ? No good bleating about it afterwards and trying to recover lost ground. Badly handled it seems. Seems we were badly advised and tactically naive in our approach. Parsons has taken much of the blame for a muppetry approach, but shame Dragan didn’t send in the big guns from the outset. (IMHO as someone used to say)

He’s been shite when we’ve needed him to be good on many occasions. Minus Stoke. When he did come good.

This all makes the EFL look like a right bunch of tits. As for Boro, fuck em - apart from their comedy keeper who was hilarious.

Perhaps Alanis ought to rewrite her lyrics to include something about this? He would have to be incredibly stupid to do it again. I think we can safely assume that it is finally done and dusted. Good to see some common sense finally applied to what has been three molehills turned into Mount Everest by the EFL and Middlesbrough FC.

Jason Cundy speaking a lot of sense on Talksport. Obviously skate Jamie O'Hara with him was calling him Tonda a cheat and saying he got away with it but Cundy wasn't having any of it. "Who cares... he's not a cheat"

I cannot help but compare the FA panel to that cobbled together by the EFL. The FA panel took their time to consider the evidence and ignored calls from the accusers for them to have the accused executed. The EFL panel had the appearance of not being independent, it was heavily influenced by the accusers and declined to consider the defence or even mitigation. It was rushed and then quickly produced the draconian measures that its employers demanded. I wouldn't be surprised if Dragan wasn't considering taking some sort of revenge on the EFL clowns.

There is no way that having an ex-Middlesbrough player and another lawyer who'd advised Middlesbrough in the past on an EFL disciplinary panel that decided to replace Southampton with Middlesbrough in the play-off final could be seen as impartial and neither was shortening the appeal period to ensure it terminated before the play-off final took place, which did not give enough time for Southampton's legal team to investigate the Middlesbrough connections of the panel members. There was also a lot of false and misleading information fed to the media, which prejudiced the case. Perhaps now is the time to turn the spotlight on Middlesbrough's role in all of this, including, for example, who came up with the suggestion of "bullying" and "use of high level surveillance equipment" and leaked it to the media?

These 2 are absolutely fuming about the outcome. No idea who they are but they are not happy.

No, just don't ever fucking do it again. Once in ignorance of the rules can be forgiven. If anyone at the club does it again and drags our name further through the mud they should be tossed out on their arse.

With hindsight, it would be interesting to know what would have happened if we HADN'T agreed to the accelerated timeline of events. We were surely within our rights to say no, we want to follow the proper process which would have meant the playoff final went ahead with us in. What would the EFL had done then if we'd been promoted? Sent Hull up anyway? I don't think so.

Imagine the club will just want to draw a line now but I totally agree.