CB Fry

How do you know the club were complacent? There’s more than one party involved here.

Not really, no.

If it is time based then the FA are not going to start a 6 month ban in June when the players are on holiday/on international duty and there are zero matches. A charge of "bringing the game into disrepute" is pretty easy for them to stick on him so will just depend on the punishment.

He's contracted to the end of 26-27. Funnily enough, whatever option we have isn't entirely down to Saints "actually getting round to it". Obviously a wee bit more complicated than that. The most likely scenario is we cash in this summer. I guess there probably is a contract to be written with a kind of reverse relegation clause in it - if we don’t go up he goes, if we do go up we pay him £xxxxx. But probably the most likely departure of the summer.

I could be wrong but I think he got a team promoted from the Championship to the Premier League. So they could be looking at that.

If I was him and the choice was there, I'd have gone for the Watford job. Still in the Championship, you're guaranteed a nice little pay off within six months when they inevitably sack you and it's a basket case club, so he'd get another job after it anyway. Leicester might work but a lot of pressure and a lot of scar tissue. He won't get away with an equivalent result to the 0-4 kicking we got at Sunderland - Leicester fans won't be standing for that.

I've heard bushes were involved.

I don’t really see where he would go that would be better than what we'd offer. Unless he wants to move back to Scotland and always dreamed of playing for Celtic/Rangers (who won't pay more than us). Would be amazed if he ended up at a Prem team. I'm not sure who that leaves. He's not going to leave us to join, say, Burnley surely? Honestly he is a huge injury risk so he's not down as a must-sign priority for me. I know they cocked up with Downs but I trust SR to get a replacement if needed.

You know it was you who raised the topic about me being a bully right? Cry more

Fine, I'm neither so works for me. Pick up with @Farmer Saint who is at least one of them

The only hypocrite is you - you are crying about me being a bully but accusing anyone questioning potential bullying by others as being "pussies". Make it make sense.

Stop crying about someone on a web forum being a “bully” and a “hard man” maybe?

I thought people needed to "stop being such pussies"?

Quite right. Boo hoo the media are being horrible and why aren't our club media contacts unflinchingly loyal and obedient to whatever the club says. Agree it is pathetic.

I think this existing in your own mind.