The Kraken

On the egg front, I don’t think you can’t get a lot better than a simple poached egg on toast. Stick some cured ham or bacon on there, delicious. Just seeing that runny egg pour over everything else, lovely. But if you don’t like something, it’s hard to get around that! Maybe just keep with the omelette thing, try something like a Spanish tortilla and that will accommodate potatoes, all sorts of green veggies, whatever. Eggs 😍

Don’t blame him really. He had a brilliant second half to the season, has played for England, and is still very young for a CB. He also likely expects the manager will soon be gone and who knows how many other players and staff will want out to distance themselves from the club. I’d imagine he’ll have plenty of clubs looking at him.

It was an independent commission, and Saints basically plead guilty to every charge in front of them.

Spors knew nothing about it. Despite it being his team, about whom he said "I’ve built a small team with different people around me with different skillsets; analytics, classical scouting, but also people with different skills who see the same thing from different angles.”

I know he’s no mouthpiece of the club but Michael Owen was on the radio a week or two ago advocating for Liverpool going for Bowen if West Ham go down. Certainly makes some sense.

And nor should you be. You just remember that.

The electorate also historically don’t take too kindly to new leaders being parachuted in without being voted for at a general. Blair and Brown’s deal looked grubby. Truss was a complete and utter head case but nobody apart from a few Tory nutters wanted anything to do with her, Sunak did a poor job and was tainted by all that went before him. I think the visuals of getting Burnham in aren’t good at all.

I know the leaks have no guarantee of accuracy in them anyway, but in addition I haven’t seen anything from the leaks that says we have deliberately sent scouts up to view training specifically within 72 hours of the game. Just that we have sent scouts. Which, it would seem, we are somewhat within bounds to do. The other clubs things is, IMO, something that can only happen further down the line. No way at this stage to say it didn’t happen, but burden of proof much harder to meet.

I have it on good authority that the vast majority of those emojis were placed laughing at you, and not with you 👍

Which could be true. However, the rule is quite explicit when it says that a club are prohibited from “observing or attempting to observe another club’s training session”. So, again, it’s the difference between fact and mitigation. Don’t think it’s gonna wash that he was up there trying to watch their women’s team.

What you’re describing is a mitigation factor. What seemingly is factual is that our employee was there and he was pointing an iPhone at the Boro players training, which is blatantly against the rules. Mitigation is important, but the factual basis of “did you break the rules”? is first and foremost. Everyone but the most rose eyed spectalist would tell you we’ve more than likely broke the rules. So there should be a punishment. The mitigations will establish just how much was gained by us / lost by Boro and, one would think, issue a proportional punishment based on that. It’s the job of the panel to make a judgement based on our response to the EFL’s charges. Some of that will be the gain/loss. Much will be why we there in the first place.

Or mitigating it. There’s all sorts of variables that need to be established that will provide mitigation. Who sent him, who knew about, why was he there. Was anyone else there too? The facts seem to be it and dried that he was there. The level of punishment meted out will surely look to the mitigation factors.

I thought that too. Maybe because the infringement of the 72 hours rule also automatically brings the other one into play. Dunno lol. But the 72 hour rule is definitely written in such a way that one can assume watching training outside of the 72 hours is ok.

Is it? The 72 hour rule specifically mentions not watching or attempting to watch another club’s training session. Why impose the 72 hour limit if it’s still an offence outside of 72 hours?

Doesn’t tally with Boro’s statement. 6 points this season keeps us in the playoffs playing Boro, albeit the other way round. 6 points next season keeps us in the playoff final. This is getting very silly, can’t wait to get back to normality (whatever that is).