Wearside Wanderer II
Striker
Soton get booted then great news for us, neither Boro or Hull have any chance of doing what we have just done, they just don’t have the nous or capability footballing wise to recruit in the way we have.
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Southampton spying compendium thread
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houst69
Striker
The beauty of this scenario is that the mackems will be lucky to get one point all season, if they go up!!! Ha!I shouldn't laugh but it's an absolute thread of beauty from that point forward.
Leeds promoted.
Us promoted.
Wilder doing his best to get us promoted.
Carrick sideways passing their into mid table obscurity.
It must have been an awful end to their season.
"at least we have Hull next season"
Oh well...
On a lighter note hopefully the EFL will grow a pair and boot Southampton out of the play offs and give Boro their place in the final.
fu.ck buckethead Wilder. And the Sheff Utd fans that couldnt even be ar,sed to go to a Play off final.
Weststand
Central Defender
Lawyer on the radio yesterday reckons the desicion won't come out until next week sometime
Disco_Pants93
Striker
Do you think RLB and his coaching staff don’t work on things in training for each opponent we play? Different set piece routines, different transitions, shape, tweaks to formations and who’s doing what job? Plan A, B and C depending on how the game goes?
Suppose they’ll just be sat with their thumb up their arse all week in preparation for Everton at the weekend?
I’d imagine they’ve not looked until now. Boro would never have thought anything of it had they not actually caught him. I wouldn’t know someone had been sat outside my house for 2 hours across the road unless I spotted them looking
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Some insight there into how much prep is done in training, drones etc etc.
Disco_Pants93
Striker
They don’t do anything man. We’ve had 36 games to watch Everton what’s the point in training for anything specific for them?
Just do the bleep test then an hours 5 a side i reckon!They don’t do anything man. We’ve had 36 games to watch Everton what’s the point in training for anything specific for them?
Onien Ring
Full Back
Don’t we just make the under 21s wear Everton shirts and play a 60 minute game against them?They don’t do anything man. We’ve had 36 games to watch Everton what’s the point in training for anything specific for them?
Vauxie
Striker
Thats about right I reckon
woodlebert
Striker
I think that’s a Radio Solent presenter guessing what will happen
rupert rigsby
Midfield
boro Just appointed Adam Barlow he'll sort it
Flea Market Trader
Striker
Im happy to be proven wrong but I don’t think anything other than a fine will be the punishment for Southampton. I do however think the fact that Southampton won it and that Boro chucked their first leg chance away after dominating the game should have no bearing on any decision. Any form of cheating by clubs I believe though should never be a fine as that does not punish the guilty team or offer any kind of positive result for the team being cheated on. Having this situation right upon the playoff final is causing the decision whatever reached to be rushed. For me Boro go to Wembley and Southampton are still in the championship.
JC70
Full Back
This mess seems to be growing. In addition to boro’s claim, if saints have been doing this all season then any team who dropped points against them and those points would have changed the team’s final league position has a claim. Particularly relegated teams who would have stayed up and any team that would have made the playoffs or even automatic promotion. Wrexham have a definite case for playoffs in place of saints. There’s also league position prize money to consider. And cup games.
A good starting point would be to recalculate the final league table allocating any points dropped against saints back to the teams.
A good starting point would be to recalculate the final league table allocating any points dropped against saints back to the teams.
Flea Market Trader
Striker
In theory what you say make sense and I agree with you. However I think the main problem right now is the fact the season has concluded and the play off final upon us with not a lot of ti e to sort this mess out. I do agree though.
Lord Potts
Striker
The FL inquiry is not a Criminal Court so the standard of evidence that's required is a lot lower than I believe that you think it is. The only things that the FL would has to show when it come to a decision is that the conclusion it reached was reasonable given the know facts and that they followed due process as set out in their own procedures. They are not required to collect and consider forensic evidence and show that the case has been proven beyond all reasonable doubt.
To my mind despite all the questions about the competency of this spying operation against Boro and whether the "spy" acted on his own initiative if other Clubs come forward with the evidence that suggests that it wasn't just a one off incident then Southampton will be in very deep shit.
The time it takes for the FL to make a decision may therefore only depend on how many other Clubs (if any) do make or have already made similar complaints about Southampton.
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Same here. I’d like to see Boro, NUFC and Sunderland in the top flight together.
On spy gate I think Soton could be kicked out at a deterrent to others and replaced by Boro in the final.
And if it turns out this fella has been doing it over the season at other clubs (should be pretty easy to determine by his phone records) they should be demoted to league 1.
Although it might seem like a comical story, it’s actually a blatant attempt to gain an unfair advantage over a specific opponent by knowingly breaking the rules.
FoldingStars
Winger
Last sentence is 100% correct but Millwall can’t complain about boro getting another shot if the panel (or whatever it looking at the case) deems Southampton have cheated and gained an unfair advantage over Boro.
Swindon were kicked out of the cup for breaking the rules and Luton were reinstated so the EFL have already set a precedent this season, in that if you break the rules we can kick you out and reinstate the team that were unfairly eliminated.
There’s no way that’s going to be easy, EFL would have been hoping boro beat them then they could give them a fine and say don’t do it again and all would be forgotten until they play each other as sky call it spygate revenge or some other terrible title.
If they wait till after the final and Southampton win then it’s going to be the messiest possible outcome and it shouldn’t ever be allowed to get to that stage.
woodlebert
Striker
To be fair to a lot of those posters, they spotted it was in game management that went wrong rather just us being unlucky
Wilder got stuck between pushing for a second and defending the lead and did neither. We capitalised and controlled the game after the disallowed goal
