Match Day Thread Play Off Final. Hull City v Boro

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Are tickets still limited to two per account holder or are they now on general sale? It seems odd if whoever wants one can't now buy as many as they like given we clearly have tickets left. I would have bought at least another one if available for me to buy.
 
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I would have been gutted had the final been moved as my two kids wouldn’t have been able to attend due to exams. Similarly an automatic promotion would have felt underwhelming having being robbed of our Wembley day.

I would have preferred us have played Southampton as the rest of the football world would have been hoping for us to win. If we lose to Boro though, it will feel like an injustice as they shouldn’t really be in the final in the first place.
Your kids are sitting exams?? Honestly thought you were like 20
 
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Are tickets still limited to two per account holder or are they now on general sale? It seems odd if whoever wants one can't now buy as many as they like given we clearly have tickets left. I would have bought at least another one if available for me to buy.

You can now buy 2 additional tickets per membership
 
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trouble is when we are having to put offers on to flog the tickets, it doesnt have same sort of impact that unfortunately ..
They could have given 4 tickets per membership initially but I don't think that
would have been fair . Hopefully most fans who regularly go to games and
wanted tickets have got theirs now and there's some left so members
can buy 2 more which seems ok to me
 
Southampton statement on play-off final refunds:

"Southampton Football Club has today begun the process of issuing full refunds for all tickets and official travel bought by fans for the Championship Play-Off Final, as well as all booking fees.

"Refunds will be returned to the original method of payment. Due to the volume and following advice from our ticket provider, we understand that refunds should be in fans’ accounts within 10-14 working days."



Under the circumstances, the refunds should be in peoples accounts within 10-14 minutes.
 
I know this was posted somewhere earlier but I had to dig it out again, it makes me laugh...

One thing doing the rounds on social media today has been some quotes on Tonda Eckert from Southampton midfielder Flynn Downes to the BBC last December...

Told the BBC: "His attention to detail is unreal. Literally every little thing, he just gives you like a base. It makes it so easy.

"You go out on a Saturday and you know what you're doing, you know what the other team is doing, you know how they're pressing, how you can play through it.'




You bet you know what the other team is doing.
 

Millwall and Wrexham consider legal options over Southampton spying scandal​

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Millwall and Wrexham are considering their legal options after confirmation that Southampton have been expelled from Saturday’s Championship playoff final and replaced by the beaten semi-finalists Middlesbrough.

The aggrieved clubs will await publication of the written reasons for the decisions taken by the English Football League’s independent disciplinary panel, which were upheld by an appeal panel on Wednesday night, but are understood to believe they could have grounds to make a claim for compensation.

Millwall and Wrexham could seek to test whether the EFL rulebook has been correctly applied or whether the disciplinary process was flawed, and could argue that because Southampton’s spying on Middlesbrough took place before the playoffs, they should have been replayed without Southampton’s involvement.

Millwall were beaten by Hull in the playoff semi-finals after finishing third and Wrexham missed out after finishing seventh.

There has been speculation in legal circles that one of the parties could seek an injunction at the high court to force the EFL to postpone Saturday’s final between Southampton and Hull but that is regarded as a non-starter owing to the timescale. Any claim would therefore be retrospective for damages.

Hull’s owner, Acun Ilicali, said on Wednesday that his club had received legal advice that they should be automatically promoted to the Premier League as a result of Southampton’s expulsion rather than playing Middlesbrough.

There appears little prospect of Hull pursuing that case in the next 48 hours but they could also pursue a claim for damages if beaten at Wembley in a game worth a minimum of £200m to the winners.

Publication of the written reasons will be key because there has been little explanation from the EFL as to how it arrived at its decisions and the process involved.

By giving Southampton two sanctions – expulsion from the final and a four-point penalty in next season’s Championship – after the club admitted to spying Middlesbrough, Oxford and Ipswich, it appears the panel treated the playoffs as a separate competition.

The EFL’s rulebook contains no reference to the process for replacing an expelled team, although its guidance notes state that the playoff final should be contested between two semifinal winners, which will not be the case on Saturday.

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Wrexham and Millwall declined to comment.

The FA is expected to bring charges against individuals after confirming it is investigating Southampton’s conduct. The position of the club’s manager, Tonda Eckert, is regarded as untenable by the squad.

One of the players, Leo Scienza, has described expulsion from the playoffs as “heartbreaking” and said the fans “definitely deserved better”.