BotleySaint

Apologies if I missed it. But is it over the course of today that we have our appeal against the level of punishment? So we should know for sure by end of today the final degree. E.g. how many points deducted and level of fine? I suppose, assuming its possible, we need to argue this is the actions of a small group of people and the whole club, fans and players shouldn't be punished for their rouge activity.

I totally agree. It should be Hull up automatically. Since we are removed there is nobody for them to play on Saturday.

There is zero chance Tonda Eckert will lead Saints out at Wembley on Saturday. Either cause we won't be reinstated, or because he'll have been sacked. And likely, both.

Love Rickie. He is right.. the club is punished but they should be punishing the staff who perpetrated it. Why punish the fans, players and the whole club.

Honestly WTF from the EFL today. Are they serious?

The bullying angle could explain this. They felt pressured into it. Probably want to keep their job. And we're told its OK, nobody will know etc. This happens in workplaces everywhere.

Has Skacel signed yet?

Club website is changing. Next match has disappeared for me etc.

Which might be a good thing in terms of moving forward. Someone to make the scapegoat. Even though he claims to not have known. Remove him and there is the possibility to claim a fresh start.

As for the squad. Would expect Azaz, Downs, THB, Manning to leave at least. Unlikely we'll get Peretz and Larin back but that would be perfect. This was pretty much the only slim set of circumstances that would result with Baz back as first choice. I really wouldn't be surprised.

Yep. The club needs to put out a statement asap with clear action to show we've cut out the problem from the club. Sackings as approrptiare. Full apology and condemning of the behavior. Probably needs to come from Dragan who hopefully had nothing to do with it and is the only clean source. Doubt hes happy at losing over £100m over this. But at this stage who knows who is guilty and who isn't...

Exactly. Most of the football supporting mates ive spoken to feel Boro shouldn't get a free pass. Hull should simply be promoted. But the EFL just want the game to go ahead for the revenue.

You'd have thought the club would be working overnight on a statement to release first thing today and at least update the club website. Even take the site down and put up a holding statement for now.

Hard to see why anyone would want to stay and play for us now. Players must be livid if they didn't already know.

Oh yes, it was worth it even if we were wrong