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Nothing would surprise me in this whole saga anymore... But you're probably right...

Hands up... That conspiracy theory had occurred to me previously... And, maybe, it's not so far fetched as it might seem... We now know that Tonda had 'previous' for spying... So, given Middlesbrough knew we were promotion rivals, they thought "send a mole" to work at Southampton for a few months would be a useful 'insurance policy' for the end of these season... Yeah, I know... Bonkers stuff!

Which, ironically, is our biggest 'faux pas' in all of this!

Yeah, fair point... I guess 'coercion' is indeed a potential differential here... Damn...!

Given we didn't win any of the 3 games that we've admitted to spying on beforehand, we probably can't use the results to conclude whether it happened under Still or not

What makes you think the FA will treat him differently to Bielsa who, based on what we know so far, carried out / sanctioned many more spying missions than Eckert has? (Please don't refer to the EFL rules being different... The moral seriousness of the act of spying is the same, regardless of the underlying rules, which aren't FA rules anyway... Surely the FA is guided by it's own rulebook in such matters...?)

Indeed.... If only there was a way of refraining from clicking on this thread so we didn't have to read it...

Well, his head's got to be one of the first on the chopping block in that case, surely, give how woeful our communication has been throughout...?

How high up in the Dyson managerial chain was Parsons? And how did that qualify him to be CEO in a high profile / public facing industry such as professional football...?

Is Sibley definitely our "Head of Comms"...? I'd always assumed he reported into such a person rather than being the head honcho in that department... 😳

I'd like to hear more about our supposed dereliction of the 'governance officer' role in the club during the course of the season. One would imagine that's the root cause of everything that's happened here? Does anyone have any more info on why we have supposedly neglected this important function within the club over several / many months?

Maybe one or two of those YouTube 'auditors' should go up there next season too....

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Ha... Nice idea

Yeah, I guess that trumps my hunch... It's just that the events of the last few weeks have started to make me view everything through a pessimistic "FFS, what next?" prism!