Tom & Gerry

If I don't want people to know what I'm doing I close my curtains and put up a fence or hedge round my garden. Surely with the rules against spying causing such complications and with it being treated as such a serious crime when the information that can be gleaned is little more than can be found by watching videos or the Manager's press conference , spying should be allowed as long as you don't break in to somewhere private, and the onus should be on teams to protect themselves from things they don't want to be seen?

A lot of ifs there. If the players all vowed to stay if he stayed then yes, but that's as likely as him not getting a ban. I'd have him back in the future but his career is likely to have moved on by then.

I wish you were right but I think the hostility from fans, not least our own would be too great. We need a Manager now that can bring back some positivity.

You don't think we need to attract players, sponsors, investment?

We have said that the punishment doesn't fit the crime so you should consider if he he should be sacked for the crime not the punishment. Having that we have to restore our reputation if we are to attract players particularly for the academy. He has to go but he will probably be leading Bayern Munich to European glory in a couple of years.

It's Friday night and I should be preparing to go to Wembley tomorrow. The feeling doesn't get any better does it?

There's a book there for someone to write - Headline Grabing Scandals involving Southampton Football Club

Don't forget Dave Jones, Norrkoping and Grobbelaar. Are we just unlucky or what?

Tonda is a brilliant driven young coach, meticulous, focused totally on winning, and tries to give his players every detail and advantage. So driven that he lost sight of what was right or wrong. He is inexperienced as a manager and someone at the club should have tapped him on the shoulder and told him it wasn't right. He will have to go away and hopefully he will learn from this and in time I'd love to have him back.

Humiliation again olay olay

Don't we have an English Assistant Manager and other analysts? The players say they can talk to Tonda if something isn't working, surely someone should have had a word in his ear not necessarily from above?

Tonda reported as not knowing the rules. Why the f**ck didn't someone at the club tell him?

This is taking longer than VAR.

I hope not, but there was someone yesterday on one of the threads, and talk of tickets being easy to get that made me think it might be.

Anyone thinking of not going because of our alleged spying , consider this. Yes I want to strangle ( figuratively speaking) whoever in the club thought that the rewards for doing this outweighed the risks, let alone the moral question, but the innocent party in this, besides the fans of all clubs is the players. It is their careers on the line and it can not help but have has an effect on them. They have been brilliant for us for the last few months and deserve our support more than ever. I for one will be singing and shouting louder than ever next Saturday (if we play)