benjii

The correct binary answer is "yes", but it needs to be a reasonable punishment.

The club is culpable. The question here is whether the individual is.

He said it or Parsons said it in the recent interview. They said we wanted someone to go up sooner but the original person didn't go and then Salt rocked up too late. I don't see how Tonda can be culpable for that. So you're left with two regular season matches, where we got a grand total of one point. I'd say a 2 game touchline ban, a fine and a suspended additional ban is fair.

We did, but Tonda didn't, as he asked the person to go sooner. So we should object to any sanction that relates to the Boro game.

Surely he didn't do anything wrong for the Middlesbrough game. He asked an analyst to go and see if Hackney was fit at the start of the week. That's not against the rules. If the bloke then went later via several layers of management, that's not Tonda's fault.

"Saints icon..."

"Trying" is the key word. And it was minor when Bielsa did it. At the end of the day, the complete lack of any parameters or guidance in the EFL rulebook over sanctions makes the whole thing a farce. Add that to Boro having a board member and an ex-player on the panel, the rushed timescale and the media campaign and the whole thing was a sham process.

Fine, seeing as it was a minor breach.

So, are we blasting the 'grints into space on Concorde?

He wants to build a settlement in the North.

Att: 1,700!!!!

He doesn't get it across forcefully. He speaks in a muddled fashion.

Nurse!

Also, a further thought on the ability to fight the outcome. - The EFL decision was rushed. There was a play off final due in days. If we were to have applied for an emergency injunction to prevent the final from happening, we would have been on the hook for large costs if the injunction was subsequently shown to have been wrong. That's how the legal system works. You can potentially get urgent relief but you have to give an undertaking to cover costs. Lots of interested parties could have brought claims. - The FA decision is different. There are no other parties impacted apart from Tonda and SFC and there is no pressing timeline or critical event to manage. So, if it is excessive then the prospect of fighting it and dragging it out as long as possible is much less risky.

One thing that was odd was that the EFL panel decision contained precisely zero reasoning about whether it was appropriate to reinstate Middlesbrough, as I recall.