Lord Duckhunter

That’s a shame, SAF was my choice to replace Tonda

I wouldn’t, she’s a 2 Pinter, so I show some respect

I’m meeting family in France next week & there will be a coach from a league one club there (we’re related through marriage). I’ll ask him, but never get much out of him, and I pretty much stopped asking after he told me I was “too harsh” on Baz after his first premier league spell.

If you take the emotion out of it, Hull will be an easier game next season. It’s a freak they’ve made the play offs, they won’t be anywhere near the top 6 next season. For the same reason I don’t want Spurs relegated, although West Ham will be tough, there’s no chance Spurs won’t take one of the top 2 next season. It’s going to be hard enough to get promoted starting behind everyone else, so we need the weakest league possible

What happens if we lose the first 5

The problem was they didn’t get ahead of this early enough, they were always playing catch up & because of that made a series of poor decisions. Life is full of fuck ups, and a rule of thumb is get it out there, because it’ll all come out in the end. Different industry/importance but only last year I sailed close to the wind with our compliance team at work, my boss said “tell me everything, and I’ll try and protect you”, (fair enough, she did). That’s what should have happened here, the day it broke Parsons should have had it all laid out to him, everything. It seems to me that he didn’t realise the extent of it when he spoke to “Gibbo” & we first indicated to the press it was a “lone wolf”. It seems to me that the facts had to be dragged out of us, bit by bit. It’s understandable that supporters didn’t comprehend the seriousness of it, but that’s Parsons job & he should have known every single detail from day one. If we knew that, our legal response may of been different. Could we have dragged it out, could we have agreed a speedy timetable which COULD have led to a 3-0 default defeat in the first leg. It’s very easy to criticise the legal team, but were we upfront with them from the off, or was their defence based on limited knowledge of the full facts. If it was my club, I’d want a full and through deep dive into this. Not the spying itself, that can be separate, but on the general response. Unbelievably, we’ve managed to look shady, unscrupulous and useless at the same time. And for what, the worse scenario.

Before you get into the morals, the practicalities mean it’s inconceivable he’s not sacked. He’ll face a ban, then what do we do, put Lallana in charge until he’s back? We’re starting 4 points behind everyone else, we need to hit the ground running. Im a big right man/right time type of Bloke. Claudio Ranerai right man at Leicester for that exact moment. Tonda did a great job getting very good under performing players playing to their potential, and he was tactically excellent. That’s not going to be the job this time. This is going to need a backs to the wall, those bastards are all against us, Manager who can get average players playing well. A manager who has seen it all and will not be put off by anything. Is that Tonda? Who knows. But this isn’t going to be the same club he took over from Still. You also can’t tell me there won’t be some resentment around the club if he stays, not just players, but support staff and supporters. If he loses early, things are going to get very tasty very early. So from a practical point, it’s a No. From a “is he the right fit”, it’s a maybe, and from the moral point of view, I think he’ll be damn lucky to keep his job.

Err, no

We didn’t spy on Ipswich at their training ground. Begs the question, did we spy on anyone else when they used a facility for a game at St Mary’s. Is it Ipswich fault Eastleigh are “stupid enough” to not build wall, just in case a team higher up the pyramid want to cheat.

Ahh yes, the reply the second game behind closed doors option, yeah, realistically good option that one. 😂😂

Pages and pages of pony, and nobody can. Once the first leg was played, it was all or nothing. Playing the first leg had fuck all to do with The panel, the bloke who played 1 game for Boro or “Gibbo”, and it was what 100% of people on here wanted.

Course we did…..

If you’re caught with the plank of wood, it’s your own fucking fault nobody else…

Get over it you fanny

Im not convinced none of them knew, like all of us & 99% of the media,they didn’t quite realise how serious it would be taken. If it was kept from the players, it blows “we didn’t know it was illegal “ defence out the water, if you thought it was legal you’d say “we had Oxford watched yesterday” & they’ll playing X formation today”. I know some are a bit dopey, but surely some senior pros who have played for a dozen managers and 5 or 6 clubs would suspect something. I’m praying Baz was in on it, and faces a lengthy ban.