Lord Duckhunter

Until yesterday 99% of people were morning about how long the FA were taking, now they’ve not banned Tonda there’s been a 180 and the time taken is a good thing. The EFL, didn’t have that time. They weren’t judging the clubs guilt, we’d admitted it. They were just applying sporting sanctions to specific competitions in which we’d broken the rules, one of which was still going on at the time they sat. The FA panel were deciding whether the breach applied to all competitions, including ones we hadn’t “cheated” in. They were deciding whether an individual should be banned from all football, not whether a club should be thrown out of a competition. There’s also the complications involved with a total ban from all Football, whereas the EFL punishment was clean concise & pretty watertight (whatever your views of it). Our mitigation in the play off case was pretty poor as well, whereas “we’ve suffered enough”, “he’ll lose his job”, is a bit more compelling than “we did it, please go easy on us”. The pressure on the EFL panel was also far far higher than on the FA one. Not only were there time constraints, there was their biggest pay day looming, not to mention 2 other clubs, Boro & Hull to consider, and the ramifications of letting us compete at Wembley after admitting cheating. Whereas The FA one could judge it without any outside pressure. You also have to remember we also lied to the EFL in the first instance, had Tonda lied to the FA and then changed his story, there’s no doubt this ban wouldn’t have been suspended. It’s too simplistic to say EFL panel wrong, FA panel right. They were different decisions, with different timescales, a different set of circumstances.

14th in league one and they’re moaning, ungrateful twats 😂😂.

I don’t necessarily agree that this new independent panel are all seeing and knowing, and the EFL one a load of fuckwits. The timescales clearly helped us. The initial EFL hearing was a clusterfuck as far as we were concerned, whereas this one we could plan a strategy, coach Tonda into being more contrite & humble as well as mount precise and considered mitigation. Remember we also broke a specific EFL rule , whereas the FA “rule” was still exactly the same one Leeds manager was charged (and slapped on the wrist) with. The same FA people judging the initial EFL case, could well have reached the same conclusion they did. My feeling is the club were probably treated too harshly, whereas Tonda has been treated slightly leniently. Hopefully it’s now behind us and we can get back to our end of season form.

I certainly don’t think he’s a hero. He let himself and the club down massively, and it cost us a fantastic opportunity. That said, he’s a young man who made a mistake, that coupled with his performance in the role, means he’s being given the chance to make amends. The players seem to have forgiven him, why can’t you?

Haven’t we suffered enough, the repercussions of spygate keep coming. Another blow for us long suffering supporters…

Lego just doesn’t get it, “we’ve had 135 shots in 5 games”. Dear god, they’re in league one, biggest club by a mile. Supporter pretty respectful, but Lego just doesn’t understand supporters. Get the ball forward more.

The fucking bloke is as good at taking a moral stance as he is at Goal keeping. “It’s not about the Jewish people or Israelis”, whys he boycotting playing against 11 innocent footballers, including one of our players then. What’s he think Bibi is playing centre half? He’s played against Qatar twice, so he’s obviously happy with their human rights record. Brave Gav, boycotting a game against irelands number one hate figures, a game he wasn’t going to fucking play in anyway. Following Gav’s brave lead, I’m now boycotting banging Sydney Sweeny after her sexist advertising campaign.

Fucking hell the Paddies taking the moral high ground, a country whose Taoiseach visited the German foreign minister in Dublin to offer official condolences following Hitler's suicide. Fuck me, Churchill even offered them a united ireland for the use of their ports, and they turned him down. We all know which side they took when Jews were being murdered in their millions, so it’s no surprise they’re turning on innocent Jewish footballers now….

The rules are a load of fucking pony anyway. All this pearl clutching in the media about City & how they’ve “cheated”. The rules are only in place to protect the established clubs, who spent what they wanted historically and now want to pull up the drawbridge behind them. Theres absolutely no punishment they can come up with which will make any City fan think “I wish we hadn’t won all those premier league’s, cups and the champions league, it just wasn’t worth it, look where we are now”. If they think they can find a suitable punishment, then my cocks a carrot. The whole thing is a friggin farce.

Not this fucking pony again. There are catch all “bringing the game into disrepute“ rule which would apply. If you really think Premier league clubs would be ok with one of its members spying on the others, that they would shrug their shoulders & say “there’s no rule against it”, you’re a radish….

Yes

The fan base are going to go nuts. There will be protests the like of which we haven’t seen since Nigel Adkins was sacked.

It’s a man’s game FFS.

I can’t understand the Leicester fans hate of him , they’re sitting 13th, given time I’m sure he’ll be the first man to keep them up for 3 years…