OI - yes, I get that idea, and your point has merit for sure, but as someone said yesterday, there’s so much money spent by fans on playoff final day at Wembley, it was never going to get cancelled… 💰

Credit to Southampton fans - from the ones I’ve spoken with directly and from most of the stuff I’ve seen from them in the media they are upset and angry with the people at their club who’ve cost them dearly. They’re not blaming the EFL.

Awarding Boro a 3-0 win after the first leg would have been neat but a final endorsement of the Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland "Sentence first - verdict afterwards".

Timmy, too early in the morning!

a4e - I said I didn't want a team that had lost (to a better team) or a team that cheated to be promoted, which was why my preferred solution, though never going to happen, was scrap the match and promote Hull. Failing that I really hope Hull win it.

That’s victim blaming. There’s a rule in place to protect them already, why should they have to protect themselves against the rules being broken?

I have a solution to the playoff and WC issues and missing teams. Let Iran play Hull on Saturday and let Soton play in their place in the WC ...

TM, stealing is stealing, I can't condone that. However when it's clear others want what you have, Theres a duty on oneself to employ some form of protection if you don't want to give it away. These clubs are vying for the £100,000,000 prize, I'll say it again, the £100,000,000 prize, not spending some cash on screening the training pitch is on the club. If that is interfered with, then there's a trespassing or damaging issue which then becomes a criminal matter. That then becomes a whole different situation that has, in my view, legal ramifications attached to it, not moral ones, about someone's hurty actions in being a voyeur. Just draw the curtains.

RK - exactly my point!

It's also on you to sort out your (theoretical) behaviour Timmy

Spot on about Gibson, he’s been a great owner. Funny that the enshriners never mention people like him…

“ The onus surely should be on the club, and that's all clubs to protect their own "crown jewels " So if I shoplift it’s on Waitrose for not employing security?

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I'm of the view that the EFL should have dealt with the matter after the first leg and awarded Middlesboro a 3-0 win. After all, the transgression was before the first leg and 'Boro would have been able to adjust to suit as they would for a replay.

I'm still in the Southampton have been hard done by camp. I find it bizarre that people such as borough fans could be looking in on the training sessions and nothing would have or has been said. The onus surely should be on the club, and that's all clubs to protect their own "crown jewels " tactics they intend to employ, by ensuring it's done behind closed door. Why not inside the stadium itself? Or inside, as Trigger has said in an indoors facility. I know I'm in a minority, but have to say that if you are careless with your wares, don't be be surprised to get mugged.

Yeah you hear a drone you move the training session inside. These clubs have massive indoor facilities.

Training sessions are pretty noisy too, not sure that a drone would be spotted/heard very quickly and even then, would you be able to stop a session indefinitely? Is it illegal to fly one (I know there are regulations) and how could you know it isn’t a casual person piloting the thing and filming the landscape, as I’m sure you couldn’t prove who the user is, and guess the user wouldn’t necessarily be the recipient of the information.

*but drones go….

Yeah. It drones go FFFFFFZZZZZZZZZZ and everyone looks up at them.

Wonder if anyone has used drones to survey training sessions and pick up the info they want. I guess it would be hard to prove who is controlling a drone and link it to the recipient of the video/audio feed.

Exactly Spit. Big respect for the EFL for making a big yet firm decision and one that sets the benchmark. Anyone sending folk out with a camera probably now telling them to shelve that project for good. It’s so naff it’s unbelievable - such a stupid thing to do.

Mind looks like it happens quite a bit [Link]

Harsh to get kicked out,but that now sets a marker, no cheating if it slightly cheating.

I also watched both games and, yes, Boro' didn't deserve to go through.

Yes, Jack is an interesting bloke MPH and we have been mates for 45 years. He knows everyone in the music business. I once had a few beers with him and another bloke in a Fulham boozer, who I hadn’t realised was Mitch Mitchell until later and met loads of others while with him, Keith Emerson, Richie Blackmore, Ian Anderson, Roy Wood, Chris Farlow and of course all the Quo lads and John Bindon was always fun to be around. Jack even painted the white room where Lennon made the imagine video and he was hated by Chuck Berry for some reason. He appeared on the Old Grey Whistle Test and played to full stadiums in the US of A when he was vocalist for Savoy Brown. Amazing that people still remember him as the bloke who sung the hedgehog Song at the Reading Festival