Lord Duckhunter

Do you honestly believe this was the first time, dear god… Proving it, is going to be impossible, but why would a random bloke suddenly start spying on opponents, without knowledge of anyone at the club. From my experience whenever anyone’s caught doing anything wrong, it’s always the “first time”.

You know exactly what’s going to happen now. Celtic are going to beat Hearts last day to pip them to the title.

Just because they can’t prove it doesn’t absolve us of any blame, it just means we got away with it. In my opinion “working with the EFL” is going to mean coming up with some sort of punishment we can accept that doesn’t look too soft. The last thing the EFL want is lawyers all over this. The difficulty for them will be if Middlesbrough have a claim that our “cheating” made a material difference to the result. It’s hard to see a scenario where they can claim that , but you never know. If I was a betting man, I’d put money on large fine, and suspended points deduction.

There is a grey area in between. Proving it was authorised, is different to being authorised.

We won’t be “vindicated”. What’s so hard to understand. If there was nothing in it, the club would have issued a flat out denial and would have given our side of the story to friendly press or someone like Blackmore. They wouldn’t be “working with” the EFL, as there would be nothing to work with. Somebody with connections to SFC was up there spying on them, the only issues is how deep those connections were, was it authorised and how high up the food chain does it go. There’s absolutely zero chance an investigation will conclude that some random bloke with no connection to SFC did it off his own back, in his own time, and on his own wedge. At best we could be able to muddy the authorisation bit, and deliver them a patsy.

Do you really believe this pony. Nobody gives a shite, outside of Southampton or Middlesbrough. At least I hope not, I’m off to sexually harass a couple of nine pinters, safe in the knowledge nobody will notice as they’re too busy worry about Spy gate. Has The Donald commented on it yet, I hope it doesn’t make him take his eye off the Iran situation

You’re right they’re s good side. Tony Pulis has been saying all season they’re good enough to go up and Coventry aside, are the best side in the league. I know people will say, he’s a dinosaur etc, but he’s been around football a long time and his opinion is as valid as anyone’s. There’s no doubt in my mind that us and them are head and shoulders above the other 2, on our days. And that’s the point, the winner of this tie should go up, but if we don’t produce our best on Tuesday, it won’t be us.

That’s going to be some game tomorrow. Rangers have had a shite season but if they can beat Celtic tomorrow, Hearts can win the title by beating Falkirk at home next week. Next to winning the title, depriving Celtic of it is the next best thing.

That, and the fact that the club have basically admitted there’s something in it. Of you honestly believe the club would have issued the statement they did if there was absolutely nothing in it, you’re deluded….Its not some innocent bird watcher or dog walker randomly wandering around who has mistakenly be identified as a Southampton employee…

What a load of old pony. “First half went to plan” 😂. If that’s the case it was a fucking stupid plan. “ Let’s keep giving the ball away, allowing crosses, let our centre forward be beaten in every physical battle and rely on their poor finishing to go in 0-0”. We got away with one there, and despite have 2 excellent efforts, could well have gone in 2 or 3 down. Completely different game then, and they’d have sat in and made it very very difficult. Probably edged the second half, but god the first half we were lucky they couldn’t finish. Larin was appalling, as was Fellows. Azaz anonymous up there again, and Leo was a long way from his best. Keeper did well again as did THB. Completely different game Tuesday and we must be slight favourites. However, if we play like we did first half, I don’t think we’ll get away with it again.

The whole thing is pathetic, from their fans reactions to our fans trying to claim they wouldn’t be bothered if the boot was on the other foot. Dear god, there’s not a match thread without demands for a red card or the ref has an agenda against us. Our nods would have reacted in exactly the same way there’s have. It’s also pathetic from the club and/or the individual. If he acted alone, he needs to get a life & if the club instructed him, that’s pretty fucking pathetic really. IMO, it’s probably a mixture of both and a bit of a grey area. I can’t believe nobody at the club knew, but equally, I’m pretty sure senior staff wouldn’t have signed off on this. I guess the case boils down to plausible deniability, and I smell a compromise coming up. Let’s not forget the bloke got caught 2 days ago, so Boro have 2 days to change tactical stuff, and he legitimately could have watched preparation for Tuesdays game. It’s not as if this has come out after the game, they were fully aware and could react to it. IF the result of both legs is close, with us going up on penalties, after extra time or by one goal, then perhaps it’ll run a bit longer. If we batter them, it’ll become a non story and we’ll get a slap on the wrist type fine. It’s hard to see Gibson arguing it made a difference, if we’ve dicked them 5-1 on aggregate. He’ll make himself look a right chump. The only way we’ll face a major issue is if other sides come forward with some evidence we’ve done it before, which begs the question, why didn’t they report it at the time. my gut feeling is Saints admitting a slight technical breach of the rules in return for a fine and maybe suspended points deduction. The technical breach being an employee/free lance bod acted without the knowledge of any senior management

Lowe isn’t in Reform, for a bloke criticising people “don’t understand” you’re pretty dopey yourself. From Reforms last election campaign. “Reform UK officially states they will keep the NHS "free at the point of delivery.” The UK isn’t particularly free at the point of delivery anymore than the French is, what are prescription charges? You have to pay before you receive treatment. Yet you’re critical of the French health service , which is far better than ours, based solely on the fact Nige is a supporter of it. Ridiculous position to be in, all that matters is our health care is improved. There’s a reason no other country copies ours. This is the problem, trying to debate our horrendous health service, dinosaurs like you are stuck in the 1940’s and won’t consider any other system. Though at the end of the day, if the people vote for it, that’s what they’ll get.

Total bollocks.

Greens celebrating taking Hackney.