garysfc
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That’s coz they’re all very special & entitled
Saints expelled from Play Offs by EFL
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It would be interested to see how other clubs would react in Boro's shoes - both club and fanbase. Hull give us a bit of insight for comparison. Does Fibson dictate the tone and the fans follow or is there something in the water?
If it happened to us, my initial thought would be expel them because I love saints. However, as time went by and people discussed punishments for other misdemeanours, I’d have lost hope.
And I’m known as a wild thing
And I’m known as a wild thing
Boro's club ownership are clearly driving all this. The fans are a mixed bag, like you get with every club. We obviously see the vocal crazies calling for all sorts of punishments but I know a Boro fan who thinks Gibson's gone too far and made the club look bad, finds the whole thing embarrassing and thinks Boro would be a laughing stock if they went up having lost the play off semi-final.
If Boro gte to the final at our expense, then beat Hull in the final, I'd imagine plenty of complaints and legal challenges about Boro being let in to a final that they lost at th semi final stage.
Sorry I didnt make it clear in my post - my take was Hull doing the suing.
And rightfully so - they know they are to lay down and be beaten we we arrive at Wembley, not Boro.
Be ridiculous if Boro went through at your expense. Any offence committed by Southampton was off the field of play, therefore any punishment should also be off the field of play.
Also it would be ridiculous if the game were called off or postponed when around 70,000 tickets have already been sold. Fans of both clubs want the game to go ahead. We don't get to Wembley that often - this will be only our 5th ever visit - and some of our younger fans have never seen us there (and who knows when the next opportunity might be?)
I reckon Southampton will be hit with
a) A heavy fine - Maybe £2M
b) ongoing investigation into individuals at the club, which could lead to said individuals being banned from the game for a year or so if found guilty of repeated spying or whatever the charges are.
With punishments, i feel this is the thing. Swindon got kicked out of the EFL cup for fielding illegal players on the pitch in a game. Our misdemeanours (wrong i agree) were off pitch, and like financial issues and should be dealt with by off pitch sanctions,
Might as well make it the HT performance at Wembley at this point
The EFL charged us 11 days ago (12 days if its announced tomorrow). What a shambles.
Just club representatives. No punishments on individuals can be handed out at this hearing.
Perhaps they’ve got a technical problem in using an iPhone photo library?
It would be ironic if the independent panel used Middlesbrough’s total domination of us, in the first half of the only game connected to the charge, as evidence that in spite of us attempting to spy on them, we clearly didn’t benefit from it.