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Southampton spying compendium thread

Get Into Em said:
So did the entirety of The Championship. Wrexham missed out on the Play-Offs to a team that were cheating. Arsenal missed on the FA Cup to a team that were cheating.
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Yeah, but there's no avenue to correct that as those games are done. the playoffs are still in the future - albeit, only just!
 

Brian Griffin said:
They’re appealing the punishment which is different to appealing the accusation which they admitted

Tie will go ahead and EFL will pray Boro lose to prevent a situation where Southampton make such a fuss that they end up going up because the punishment was too severe
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Proportionality of the punishment to the offense. Potential £200m+ earnings being removed against what they did, or at least that is how it came across on R4 this morning.
 
Mackem Al said:
exactly, they were all as smug as the southampton fans. But but he was only there 5 minutes. But but they didnt get any advantage. But but ...
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Spot on.
I did my best to avoid calling fellow SAFC fans thick feckers but maaaan it was difficult.
It’s in part an equal part expose of peoples IQ levels and of the failings of the English education system.
Southampton cheated which means they have to suffer the consequences. Not suffering the consequences could’ve meant they benefited to the value of £250m. It’s not rocket science to anyone with even half a brain but to some on here……….
 
The Athletic have a it more this morning:

Two of the club’s analysts gave evidence at the hearing in which they expressed remorse for their actions but said they were pushed into the spying trips.
Southampton’s players have been left furious and are exploring legal options,
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Hull City are also deeply unhappy, as their preparations have been thrown into disarray, having spent four training sessions focusing on playing Southampton.

Incriminating WhatsApp messages to Southampton’s analysts from head coach Tonda Eckert were revealed in the hearing, with the German now potentially facing his own serious Football Association charges
HorsePills said:
Fair point, but if it was earlier in the season it's evidence of it happening over a longer period too.
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yeah, December then nothing until April and May is a bit weird
 
Ferryhill Exile said:
@seahamstar Imagine all the shite he'll get, likely lost his job on the commands of the higher uppers.

Look at my posting history, I like Boro and really want to see them promoted. So this isn't a "poor Southampton" thing.
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I sort of see what you're saying, but surely (even though he's young-ish) the bloke is a grown man who surely must have known that what he was doing was against the rules and against the principles of the game.
Despite this, he was seemingly quite happy to go along with it and at the very least he surely knew that the risks (and ramifications) of being caught out outweighed the rewards of doing something so underhand.
Only got himself to blame imo
 
ATTACK ATTACK ATTACK said:
Surely they'd prep for both to some degree though? How do teams manage preparations during a season when they play one team on a Wednesday and then a different team on the Saturday?

It's been 9 days now since Hull got into the final and it will have been 12 days come the final. Surely they've had plenty of time to look at Southampton to be 90% ready. They could have also looked at Boro and today will probably focusing more on Boro in the run up to the final, more so if the appeal isn't successful.

I bet Hull prefer to play Boro anyway even though they've beaten Southampton twice this season. That was way back in September and January and Southampton are a much better team since then and now (spying aside).

Southampton won 8 of their last 10 in the league and drew the other 2. They also drew with and beat Boro in the playoffs. Boro won 2 of their last 10 league games and didn't win against Southampton. I know who'd I'd want to be playing in the final if it we were in Hull's position 🤪
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I dunno like. Southampton players heads must be all over the shop now a there’s absolutely not a cat in hells change the manager takes charge of the team if they were reinstated.

It would be a very very strange situation.
 
Will the final even go ahead when appeals and legal action are in motion?

Hull are the only team to have genuinely made the final so it will be tempting to hand them a place in the Premier League.

I don't see any other resolution with the short amount of time available.
 
Turnip from the Tip said:
The Athletic have a it more this morning:

Two of the club’s analysts gave evidence at the hearing in which they expressed remorse for their actions but said they were pushed into the spying trips.
Southampton’s players have been left furious and are exploring legal options,
You must be logged on to see external links
, if the verdict is upheld
Hull City are also deeply unhappy, as their preparations have been thrown into disarray, having spent four training sessions focusing on playing Southampton.

Incriminating WhatsApp messages to Southampton’s analysts from head coach Tonda Eckert were revealed in the hearing, with the German now potentially facing his own serious Football Association charges

yeah, December then nothing until April and May is a bit weird
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Had Hull focused all their spying on Southampton?
 
Its going to cause a huge knock on effect as teams like Wrexham are going to be fuming they missed out on the playoffs potentially due to all this.
 
Get Into Em said:
Yes, but every other team in The Championship have also been cheated. The integrity of the entire season has gone.

Arsenal would probably have an argument that they might have won the FA Cup if it wasn't for Southampton.

The fact Boro have been awarded, whilst Wrexham missed out on the Play-Offs all together due to Southampton cheating suggests there's a lack of integrity with the decision all together and either way the EFL did it - obviously that's out of the EFL's control though. Conclusion is that Hull should have just been given a bye.
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I disagree.
If it's true that every other team has been cheated they can't just cancel the whole season., and by your judgement then surely giving Hull a bye is not fair on the rest of the division.
They (Southampton) were caught trying to cheat Boro out of a play off final place, so imo the only solution is to reinstate the club that were knocked out unfairly (especially as it's a knockout competition).
Any proof of cheating throughout the season should be subject to points deduction/demotion and fines.
 
Flavonoids said:
Well using some of the prevailing logic, they had 38 games and should have played better
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That is true, I mean with Boro being allowed into the final though. For all those other teams they will see it as being treated differently. Rightly or wrongly things will rumble on for a long time
 
PTR said:
People keep undervalue-ing the point that Boro lost to a team who were cheating. Of course they should get their spot back.
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Imo the fairest thing would be to have a one off game Millwall vs Boro and they get a shot in the final.

Youd have to delay the play off final though and potentially play it outside wembley.
 
scotch said:
Wonder of the saints fan dressed in the camouflage will look back with enjoyment over that play off semi win
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Probably not. Ghillie suits aren't exactly comfortable, shed all over the place and get really hot.

He should have dressed as Where's Wally. Much more user friendly.
 
All concerned clubs have played one another twice this season, they already have lots of information of how they play, set pieces etc. The preparation for Hull and Boro won't be affected.
 
MonkeyLove said:
I still think unfortunately Southampton have a couple of cards to play.

Most obvious would be if they lose today to bring a new claim to challenge the actual procedure. It’s pretty obvious that for expediency the EFL can’t follow their own process which requires 14 days. And also doing the appeal today means Southampton are having to do the appeal also in a very short time scale and without the full written judgement. I’m sure Southampton could have some recourse to challenge that and it’s what journalists are suggesting their lawyers are looking at. First rule of law if you can’t challenge something substantively (which I doubt they can) then go after the process. Just look how long Man City have delayed things.

If that fails they could still and try to potentially take it outside football into the courts and try for an injunction. The obvious angle would again be lack of fair process which creates some kind of breach of contract of faith.

Not sure whether either of those would be successful but it’s undisputed that the EFL have had to discard the usual process to get this done quickly and that almost certainly will open up some risk for them.

Southampton know once the game is played it’s over and they are chasing just compensation after that point (Not saying they have a case but that would be their only recourse) so with little to lose I fully expect them to make another legal challenge to try and stop the final if they lose today.
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Given SFC have admitted the charges, all of the above doesn't apply.
 
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