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The points deduction isn't getting dropped now. Those proceedings are over.

Not sure how anyone can read that statement and think we might take legal action. Seems pretty clear to me that we're wanting to draw a line under it and move on.

Sorry but I don't care how much he loves the club or how committed he is. Absolutely miles out of his depth and his position is untenable. Can we have a poll?

If you heard about another football club you'd barely believe that they could genuinely handle it that badly. When its Sport Republic's Southampton though it's incredibly believable and not at all surprising.

Laughable that they're essentially owning up to not bothering with their own due diligence at the time.

The problem is the EFL clearly don't think it's a stupid rule and neither do the clubs who wanted it in the first place. If it's a widespread belief that it's a stupid rule then it'll get binned this Summer...

If clubs want rid then it'll go, if they don't it'll stay. Not sure why this incident will changed the mind of clubs who wanted it in the first place though.

Does anyone remember that 'silver goal' rubbish they tried out? If a team was winning at HT in ET then the game ended there.

Could probably speed it up by removing two players from each team every 5-10 minutes until you end up with 5 a side. Not entirely serious but do think it'd become harder to not concede in that situation.

Who's paying for it for the likes of Crawley Town and Gillingham?

Well a majority of EFL clubs were clearly happy with the 72 hour window when it came in.

I know it doesn't. My point is Arsenal publicising a single training session doesn't mean they'd be happy for the world to see all of their training sessions. Yes they brought it in after Biesla as EFL clubs thought it was a big enough issue to have its own. If they didn't it wouldn't have come in.

I didn't think I needed to be when we were specifically discussing the EFL and your assertion they'd dug a hole for themselves. I thought it was pretty obvious I was discussing sanctions the EFL would implement in their competitions. Why would I dispute a point about the EFL by talking about a competition they don't run?

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.