Lighthouse

If we can find the right woman, they might enjoy it.

I agree. It's the first thing he's said in six years which doesn't read like it was written by someone who likes drinking paint.

'Being f**ked for years to come' will depend on us making the right decision, not the quick one. Will Still was appointed on 25th May, that's five days from now (four by the time the servers post this message) and look how that turned out. Tonda and anyone else involved will have to go but there're no prizes for getting it done by lunch tomorrow. Clearly we weren't expecting to have to find a replacement so suddenly like this, so I hope we take as long as is needed to find the right man and get him in.

On what grounds? Saying they only knew their opponent for the final three days previously is a pretty flimsy argument. That's basically what happens at every World Cup between each round of knockout games.

We've basically been disqualified from a game we were proven to have cheated in. How is that excessive? Nobody is mad at the EFL except a few Saints fans in the echo chambers of social media. If they hadn't kicked us out they'd be getting huge amounts of stick from Boro fans.

Tonda, and others, have robbed this squad of PL football and a massive pay rise. If he has any kind of conscience and decency he won’t be able to look the players in the eye, let alone manage them next season. His position here is completely untenable, he has to go. As for not knowing… well I knew it wasn’t allowed, I remember the Bielsa incident and I’ve never worked in professional football in any capacity. That’d be like going to a doctor and him saying, "a headache? Well I’m kind of new here, I’ve never heard of one of those."

In what way? The only mugs here are us. We cheated, we got caught, we got kicked out of the playoffs. Apart from a handful of delusional Wrexham and Hull fans on Twitter thinking they might have benefitted from this one way or another, there’s really nobody else emotionally involved. The final will be played, the winner will get promoted and we’re going to be left dealing with lawsuits from our entire squad who will rightly claim that the club have robbed them of potential PL football (and its associated pay rise).

Complete conjecture. There’s no connection between either club selling tickets and what’s actually going on in the hearing. I don’t think yesterday’s decision will be overturned simply because there’s no new evidence to warrant it but nothing was ever going to happen ‘straight away’ regardless of the decision.

On tomorrow’s episode of Judge Rinder; man caught running into bank with machine gun, balaclava and large sack labeled ‘Swag £££’. Defence lawyer claims he only went in to apply for a professional studies loan.

This is just delusional. Why on Earth would we be sending people to spy on Boro’s training sessions if not to gain an advantage on the pitch? Saying, "oh well, we didn’t really gain an advantage because they had loads of chances to score," would get laughed out of court. Boro could quite reasonably argue that they had a great tactical plan to win both legs but we’ve spent a spy up there to record all their formations, tactics, lineups etc. Out of interest, why do you think we sent someone to spy on them?

You have no basis on which to say that. We were caught spying on their training sessions, it's laughable to try and claim we didn't benefit from it at all. Boro lost to cheaters and if this was the other way around, not one single Saints fan would be claiming we don't deserve to go to Wembley.

Why not? They finished fifth and only got beaten by a team who cheated. It's not like we're giving QPR a go at Wembley.

It very clearly states that she has experience working for a wide range of sporting organisations, which is clearly relevant to us. How does also working in discrimination cases make her any worse at representing Saints? I've no idea why you're being nasty towards her.

Yesterday? How was that not immediately obvious to everyone this whole time?

They were at Eastleigh's training ground. Would look a bit weird walking around in Spartak Moscow shirts.