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Has there been a run on plain brown envelopes?

You may well be right but I don't see why it can't be announced. If they've set the punishment and we've appealed why the need for secrecy?

This frames the whole sorry saga perfectly. For whatever reason the FA are playing silly buggers with our club and they need to quickly make public the sanctions they have decided against Tonda. Maybe they realise how stupid they'll look if they come down hard on him after the absolute farce of the Chelsea case.

Have to disagree. If the punishment is excessive we need to go in fair but hard with the best lawyers available. Look at how leniently the FA have treated Chelsea. We need to be standing up for ourselves not meekly allowing them to dish out severe punishment that will disrupt our club.

It's a figure of speech.

Reading between the lines I'm not convinced Spors wanted him here and is happy to see him move on.

Ross has asked if our club doctor can conduct it instead of Swansea's.

Presumably you've never visited one of their online fans forums. They don't like us much despite the fact that they were given a spot in the play-off final because of our stupidity - you'd have thought they'd be grateful for that gift from us 🙂

We all see things differently and personally I thought Matsuki was decent today.

They were dealt with by the FA who are handling the Tonda Eckert case. It will be a bit rich if they hammer him after the leniency shown to Chelsea who were done for a high number of offences yet even had their points deduction suspended. Hopefully our lawyers are ready to act if Tonda has the book thrown at him.

I think that ship has sailed because he'll not have had a proper pre-season fitness regime which, for a player with his injury history, is going to make life tough for him. He may be rapidly burning all his bridges.

There has been plenty of pearl clutching on this forum.

He is but I suspect he'll be disappointed and may well regret not sorting out a contract with us. His stock is not that high although being a free agent might help but, even then, he comes with a very bad injury history and will no doubt want decent money which few clubs at this level can afford to pay. I still think he's been badly advised by his agent but let's see how it pans out.

Injured. Hurt his back I believe.

This is the time when agents start agitating things to make themselves a nice few quid. Parasites of football.