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Everything in Saints' favour... - Tonda on the touchline - Players and fans bouyed by the FA outcome - Squad more or less fully fit - immensely better squad than PCFC's on paper - PCFC dealing with an injury crisis - home advantage - Mars lined up with Uranus So it's all set up nicely for a typical "Saintsy" outcome... A scrawny 2-1 victory to the inbred charity, trophy and tax thieves....

Even if Sam was to sign for a certain club not a million miles from here...? 😉

Curiousity question... Is there any reason why the "expulsion was obviously the only sporting sanction available to the EFL" brigade weren't out in force on this thread saying as such BEFORE the EFL's panel announced their decision? Unless my memory's deceiving me, hardly anyone on here was predicting an expulsion outcome in the lead up to the EFL verdict, were they...? Which is bizarre, given how "obvious" an outcome it's now being portrayed as...

If only people would stop asking people to stop then the thread might die off....

Lighthouse? A contrarian? Can't see how you come to that conclusion... #itsjustdifferentopinions,innit

I disagree

Agreed, but my worry now is that Tonda gets 'cancelled', a la Ed Sheeran, for taking a neutral stance on a political matter...

The current football club that plays at Fratton Park was founded in 2012...

I guess a more pertinent question is... If the FA did want to appeal, what's the deadline for them doing so...?

Fair enough. The point I'm trying to make is that there was more than one possible sporting sanction available. The fact that the EFL chose to only go with one of the options is missing my point, as some people seem to be suggesting they didn't have a choice in the first place... Anyway, will leave it there 👍🏻

I'm confused (easily done)... Why was it exclusively down to us to "offer" an alternative sporting sanction? What was stopping the EFL considering an alternative to outright expulsion themselves? I don't really have the appetite to go around this circle yet again, but I'm content with my point of view that the EFL could have decided that forfeiting the first leg 3-0 (for example) was a viable and proportionate alternative sporting sanction...

Ha... Gotta love the mainstream media taking an interest in our press conferences when it suits them...