Lord Duckhunter

What £200 million? You’ve been in the public sector too long… It’s pretty irrelevant anyway, he’s going to get a ban. Deciding whether to keep him or not, is like me deciding whether I’ll give it to Sydney Sweeney doggy style or reverse cowgirl. We won’t get the option.

Used to go to the south of France every year staying on campsites, having 4 kids it was a lot cheaper than package holidays. There were a few companies then keeping the costs down, we found one Euro Sites, which used to buy pitches off Key camp outside of school holidays, and re sell them cheaper. You didn’t get fined by the schools either then. Now it only seems to be Euro camp and prices are astronomical (we looked at taking grand kids). For families it was great, kids were doing football, tennis, swimming etc clubs, messing around with friends, just came back for quick BBQ before disappearing again. Loads of different nationalities and we always went end of June beginning of July, so World Cup/Euros would be on some years. Tents already up, so no divorce activity beforehand, but we then started to upgrade to mobile homes. The oldest kids are nearly 40 now, and they still go on about the great times. Meet people we’re still friends with. Really cheap holidays, decent facilities and great Mediterranean weather 90% of the time.

The club will have planned for losing in the playoffs, who would go and who they’d want/be able to keep. The spanner in the works is blokes we’d clearly be able to keep using spygate, or more likely their agents using spygate, to manipulate a way out or get a premium for staying. It may also encourage sides to take the piss and try and nick a couple on the cheap. It’s the ones we probably would have ditched had we won promotion that worry me. Manning, Fellows, Wellington, Flynn Downs, Matsuki, wood, even Azaz, are they going to think fuck this, and want to move on. Larin, another one, will he be up for another shot, and more importantly, will he play at the same level. Let’s get Bree done now. We can’t be rebuilding from scratch, and we may need to dig our heals in over a couple and tell them they’re not going anywhere. THB, Jander, Charles and obviously, Peretz, we probably planned for. I’d ask Leo to stay and reassess in winter window agreeing a move if we’re not in or amongst the autos, and that would be it, outside of the Archers & Edozies of the world. If Baz is in nets, god help us. So we need keeper, centre half, centre midfield, starters. Top championship quality, to slot straight in to a good side. Then use the loan market for an Archer replacement, and another CM.

Dear God, no. He’s fucking pony.

No fucking chance

I don’t think football bans quite work like that.

Whose fault is it that we’re starting on minus 4?

Wait until the FA ban him, they’ll be all out in force again. Bielsa wasn’t banned, we didn’t gain an advantage, a bloke on the FA meet “Gibbo” once, there’s an agenda against Saints, everyone does it daily and twice on a Thursday, and the DFB wouldn’t have banned him in Germany.

Gambling debts and bookmakers owing you money used to be debts of honour, so were unenforceable by law. I’m not sure if they still are, as it’s not so shady nowadays.

From what I can see. The fight back involves continuing to moan about the punishment, banging on that it’s only the last 72 hours that’s the problem, reminding everyone it’s legal in a different country, and keeping the bloke whose direct actions have led to us being 4 points behind everyone else before a ball has been kicked.

Give them a points deduction.

It what way was it over the top? The lack of understanding is incredible. The play offs were ruled to be a separate competition, once the first leg was played there was absolutely no other realistic sporting sanction available.

Dear god, what a Karen. So the punishment for cheating in a play off game worth £200 million is……. A fine, and a suspended points deduction. That’ll definitely stop anyone else from doing it 🤣🤣

I think rule B15 will be used,similar to the way Leeds got done. If people think Premier league clubs can go round streaming opponents tactical shape, set piece drills and other stuff before matches, and not get any sanction, they need to give their head a wobble. “In all matters and transactions relating to the League each Club, Official and Director shall behave towards each other Club, Official and Director and the League with the utmost good faith."

There’s zero chance we were going down once we got Larin, Bree back & Peretz zero. Even if you believe Tonda is the only man who could have got us into the play offs, we’re still 4 points worse off next season because of decisions he made. This wasn’t some tactical mistake or bad signing. It’s was a complete and utter balls up, which has resulted in a loss of revenue, standing in the game, and probably one or 2 players we may have been able to keep hold of (had we lost to Hull). He’s probably cost us sponsorship deals and season ticket revenue as well. I’ve seen nothing which suggests this goes higher than Tonda, but until there’s evidence it did, he needs to pay the ultimate price.