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@weary_t1red @Saints_Mike7167 I take your point, but nuances do take place game by game and in game. Hellberg does it and I’m sure Eckert does too. They both know the value of spying trust me.

@Saints_Mike7167 Also, THE FUCKING GAMES ARE ON TELLY & THATS 90 MINUTES OF FREE SPYING ON TACTICS, SETUP & GAME PLAN!! Managers setup their team a certain way - that’s the management bit!! They’re not going to change shape / formation EVERY match! It should be old news this by now #SaintsFC

After all the shit this spying bollox has caused, is anyone thinking that the rules about watching an opponent needs to be scrapped? All this you do it but not 72 hrs before KO, is fucking nonsense. Just ban it altogether & the punishment for doing it is demotion? #SaintsFC

@HCAFCawaydays @EFL @Boro @SouthamptonFC So we should just assume that Southampton didn’t choose to sit back for the first and only time in Eckert’s time?

I hope the @EFL and the ‘Independent Disciplinary Committee’ take the stats from the first half of the first leg between @Boro and @SouthamptonFC into consideration. #Spygate clearly made no difference and Boro should have put the tie to bed in the first half! #HCAFC

@For_Film_Fans Looks rubbish. Will skip

This STAR WARS teaser trailer was screened before ‘King Kong’ in December of 1976. The special effects weren’t finished, the music is NOT John Williams, and all in all it gives off a very different much darker vibe. Interesting.

@Sfc_debs Go and buy all his books at once! You won’t find many about North East football

@samtate Literally never heard of him

What a surprise #Saintsfc fans, the Guardian journalist writing this guff is from….you’ll never guess….Middlesbrough! Steve Gibson getting his mates to pressure the panel again.

@Strickland__Ben Missed Ayling out of the squad

Forgot about Jeremy Sarmiento and I’d throw an offer at Josh Brownhill but not sure if we’d be able to offer the wages

I was writing a transfer blog for Boro im the championship but I’ll hold off 🤭 Anyway here’s the players I’d look to bring in for the championship:

@Happy_Hussar2 @Puel_Out @GraemeBandeira You seem tense mate

@samtate @Puel_Out @GraemeBandeira You absolute bellend 🤦🏻‍♂️

This has all been very convenient for Gibson and Hellberg. Completely distracting from their complete bottling of automatic promotion and then bottling the play offs. There should have been serious questions asked, but they’ve played a PR blinder and Boro fans falling for it 😂

@Leesydarts @evreythingsaint @RalphInUEFA @SFCMikeKavs Yes there is. Google Canadian spying

@evreythingsaint @RalphInUEFA @SFCMikeKavs Still there's no precedent for something like that to happen. It's more newspaper garbage

Hear me out. Tonda gets banned after the play off final. We win ad get promoted. We then hire Kim Hellberg to replace him for no other reason than the monumental head loss it will cause in Boro 😉😂 #saintsfc

@Puel_Out @Happy_Hussar2 @GraemeBandeira No hate, we’re just justice warriors up north mate 🤪

@samtate @Happy_Hussar2 @GraemeBandeira Love that you hate us this much 😆

@SirGowen @borosouthwest @Biggun26_ I didn't ask you for his job title mate

@samtate @borosouthwest @Biggun26_ He's fucking interim. He's our youth team manager you simpleton.

So I’ve been told Final will be played EFL has NO evidence of other clubs being spied on Southampton innocent Saints bosses are furious that Tonda’s reputation has been ruined. Will be HUGE consequences for Steve Gibson. Luke Edwards banned from St Mary’s.

@SfcSanJose7 two days off *

@SfcSanJose7 Is it normal for an analyst to be given two days off (presumably he didn't travel through the night) two days before the biggest game of the season?

No evidence Will Salt was Sent. No evidence Will Salt was Paid. No evidence anything (Salt), recorded was given back to anyone at the Club. No evidence it had any impact on the two legs. No evidence of prior spying by Salt. Verdict: Salt Guilty, Club misdemeanor #SaintsFC

@SirGowen @borosouthwest @Biggun26_ Haha. Serious question, it must piss you off that you cheated when you had such a stronger squad than ours? How will you feel about Eckert when he gets a big ban?

@samtate @borosouthwest @Biggun26_ Listen, we're guilty. But the way you lot are carrying on is pathetic at this point. You got knocked out. Cry harder

@RalphInUEFA a) It's irrelevant, and b) Tell me....how many times under Eckert have you made the decision to sit back like you did in the first leg? And not even enter any 50/50s until the 60th minute...

Boro fans keep banging on about us ‘benefiting’ from our breach of the rules if we go through to the final. We haven’t, it has had no material impact on the result of the match. #saintsfc

@Happy_Hussar2 @GraemeBandeira @Puel_Out Ideal scenario for a lot of Boro fans - you beat Hull and take out one serious competitior for the title next season, you go down with 10 points next season and endure another miserable year, and we get oooh I don't know, call it £30m from you when we sue...

@GraemeBandeira @Puel_Out Oh but you absolutely are!! I can’t wait to see your faces if we beat Hull, it’s gonna be delicious!! 😋

@SirGowen @borosouthwest @Biggun26_ If you think he hasn’t said “no I’m not a cheat” because he’s under investigation and not because he actually is a cheat then you’re being very naive

@samtate @borosouthwest @Biggun26_ We're guilty as hell we all know that, but ifyou think he's going to talk during an active investigation to live press you're a fucking idiot.

@SirGowen @borosouthwest @Biggun26_ But if you’re guilty…it’s probably best to stay quiet and end the presser…

@samtate @borosouthwest @Biggun26_ While under active investigation?

@SirGowen @borosouthwest @Biggun26_ It’s not a criminal investigation. If you’re innocent it’s perfectly ok to say “no I’m not a cheat”

@SirGowen @borosouthwest @Biggun26_ Your side of the story 😆 It’s a fairly black and white situation pal. Your manager was asked a simple question that any innocent man would have given a simple answer too

@borosouthwest @Biggun26_ @samtate "Steve holds all the cards here" you haven't even heard our side yet because we've been largely silent the whole way through this while MFC have been running their mouths to the press.

@Biggun26_ @borosouthwest @SirGowen I get it perfectly mate. We are not involved in the decision on (or before) Tuesday. But we made it very clear in our statement yesterday… “The club reserves all its legal rights.” In the event the outcome isn’t satisfactory, Gibson will be seeing Saints in court

@samtate @borosouthwest @SirGowen Sam are you not getting it? Whether he wants to be involved or not. He can’t. Boro cannot appeal. He’s got no say in anything that happens now.