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Anyone else thinking that a disproportionate ban might not work against us as much as some fans probably think it will..? It could well heighten the seige mentally at the club and galvanise the players to "get promoted for Tonda" whilst sticking two fingers up at the footballing authorities... I'm obviously not suggesting that a lengthy ban is in anyway desirable, over something more proportional, but just pondering whether it might not be as harmful to our promotion chances as we might initially think...?

Jander is back out on the grass....! Well, sort of...

Bristol City 0 Lincoln 1

Cry Babies 1 Millwall 2

Make that 2

In today's training footage, Tonda's not looking like a man with the cloud of a lengthy ban hanging over him... That said, looks can obviously be deceptive...

By the way, I can't remember the exact wording, but whatever happened to the Saints offer to assist with the setting up of a 'commision' to investigate all the other spying activities that we were alluding to in our initial statement? You'd have thought the EFL would have been as keen as mustard to weed out any such other cases, as would we....?

Fair point... although, as a tangential curiousity, there's every chance we might have 'got away with it' if Middlesbrough didn't have this supposed "inside information" on our activities (doesn't alter anything though, I agree)

Whilst 'entrapment' is probably the wrong word, there's every chance that Middlesbrough knew we were intending going up there to observe their training, given they had someone on their books that was a friend/ex-colleague of the Southampton 'spy' and who worked at Saints himself in the relatively recent past...

Yep, fear of repeating myself, but the Canadian women's manager missed the grand total of 3 competive matches during their 12 month ban.