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    East Lothian Saint reacted to Ayrshire Saints in Club covid executives - a statement.   
    The punishment is somewhat unfair on the other teams in the league too. It's basically punishing Livvi, RC, DU and St Johnstone as well as Saints and Killie. If I were a fan of those clubs I would be fuming tonight at direct opponents being handed points for nothing.
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    East Lothian Saint got a reaction from portmahomack saint in Club covid executives - a statement.   
    Club Statement
    The club operated honestly throughout the whole process and will review its position before issuing a further response.
     
    Who's idea was it to tell the truth?????    Is that why they have now appointed an ex-cop.
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    East Lothian Saint got a reaction from Dibbles old paperboy in Club covid executives - a statement.   
    I think we deserve to be punished but I think the SFA have gone OTT in awarding Hamilton and Motherwell Points. That punishes everyone in the league not just us. Even a points deduction for us would have been fairer, as awarding 3 points to Hamilton and Motherwell could get Livingston or Ross County relegated or get Motherwell into Europe ahead of Hibs.
    Authorities playing a strange game
     
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    East Lothian Saint got a reaction from Radar in Club covid executives - a statement.   
    I think we deserve to be punished but I think the SFA have gone OTT in awarding Hamilton and Motherwell Points. That punishes everyone in the league not just us. Even a points deduction for us would have been fairer, as awarding 3 points to Hamilton and Motherwell could get Livingston or Ross County relegated or get Motherwell into Europe ahead of Hibs.
    Authorities playing a strange game
     
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    East Lothian Saint reacted to munoz in Club covid executives - a statement.   
    Spot on.
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    East Lothian Saint got a reaction from Slarti in Club covid executives - a statement.   
    I think we deserve to be punished but I think the SFA have gone OTT in awarding Hamilton and Motherwell Points. That punishes everyone in the league not just us. Even a points deduction for us would have been fairer, as awarding 3 points to Hamilton and Motherwell could get Livingston or Ross County relegated or get Motherwell into Europe ahead of Hibs.
    Authorities playing a strange game
     
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    East Lothian Saint got a reaction from Farmer Johnny Rocks in Club covid executives - a statement.   
    I think we deserve to be punished but I think the SFA have gone OTT in awarding Hamilton and Motherwell Points. That punishes everyone in the league not just us. Even a points deduction for us would have been fairer, as awarding 3 points to Hamilton and Motherwell could get Livingston or Ross County relegated or get Motherwell into Europe ahead of Hibs.
    Authorities playing a strange game
     
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    East Lothian Saint reacted to Ally in Club covid executives - a statement.   
    As much as you may think the rules are ridiculous in the context, which they may be, the fact we didn't adhere to them means we deserve all we get. Once the rules are in place you have to follow them... end of really. The fact that we haven't is ridiculous, completely amateurish.

    I mean car sharing ffs. It's difficult to imagine that the club management, across the board, weren't aware this was happening. From reading the initial statement the club don't appear to be accepting responsibility for it, which is even more alarming. The statement gives the impression that we were expecting to be let off with it because we've been 'honest'. Very strange thinking.
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    East Lothian Saint reacted to oaksoft in Club covid executives - a statement.   
    The games were cancelled because we had insufficient players due to covid isolating.
    When you have anything happen at work, the company needs to prove it was doing everything it was obliged to do (legally or otherwise). We got found out to have made several breaches of perfectly clear rules.
    Honestly, I'm not sure why people are struggling to understand this.
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    East Lothian Saint reacted to Ayrshire Saints in Club covid executives - a statement.   
    Training is totally different. No way they will be as close for as long as they would be sitting at a meal or travelling. Incidentally read the full verdict, we were not following the correct protocols in training situations either.  
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    East Lothian Saint reacted to Desperately Seeking Susans in Club covid executives - a statement.   
    If individual players transgress the rules on the Covid virus they are publicly penalised and rightly so.   Given the time which has elapsed since the SPFL accusation, the club will have undergone an internal investigation to verify who was responsible and will have by this time identified the failure.  The initial defensive club reaction suggests a lack of transparency or admittance that they, the board or an individual, were at fault.  
    The rules under which clubs  should adhere to may well be impractical and contradictory but they must be followed.  The board have come under criticism over some issues by some but the seriousness of this must be fully examined and lessons learned.  This failure could threaten Saints survival in the Premier league given the margins of safety of the last few seasons.  The board must stand up and take responsibility.
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    East Lothian Saint reacted to oaksoft in Club covid executives - a statement.   
    It's irrelevant whether we think it's ridiculous or not.
    What matters is that professional football was granted a special privilege to continue at a time when other businesses are forced to shut and all the club had to do was follow the rules which granted that privilege.
    We didn't do that and someone needs the sack for that.
    Everything else is total whataboutery.
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    East Lothian Saint reacted to pod in Club covid executives - a statement.   
    Elected to serve on the 2019/20 SPFL Board, alongside SPFL chief executive Neil Doncaster, chairman Murdoch MacLennan and independent non-executive director Karyn McCluskey, were:
    • Ladbrokes Premiership: Alan Burrows (Motherwell), Les Gray (Hamilton Academical),   
    Are they involved in the disciplinary case.  
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    East Lothian Saint reacted to oaksoft in Club covid executives - a statement.   
    There's a difference between a club setting rules and the player not following them and a club not setting rules at all.
    Can you really not understand that?
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    East Lothian Saint reacted to Ayrshire Saints in Club covid executives - a statement.   
    Review the position of whoever is responsible before announcing they have been sacked should be the statement. Fan ownership can't be any worse than the shit show that's been shown up this week. Dreadful week for the club and all so typically Saints, shooting yourself in the foot stuff as usual.
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    East Lothian Saint reacted to JJ McG in Club covid executives - a statement.   
    Players sharing cars to training is embarrassing. 
    Only have ourselves to blame.
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    East Lothian Saint reacted to munoz in Club covid executives - a statement.   
    Agree with that.
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    East Lothian Saint got a reaction from Russian Saint in Club covid executives - a statement.   
    Club Statement
    The club operated honestly throughout the whole process and will review its position before issuing a further response.
     
    Who's idea was it to tell the truth?????    Is that why they have now appointed an ex-cop.
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    East Lothian Saint reacted to BuddieinEK in Club covid executives - a statement.   
    "St Mirren and Kilmarnock infringed social distancing rules on buses and at meals, and players from the former also shared cars to and from training."

    If we had players car sharing, someone deserves the sack for allowing it! [emoji850]
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    East Lothian Saint got a reaction from Bud the Baker in Club covid executives - a statement.   
    Club Statement
    The club operated honestly throughout the whole process and will review its position before issuing a further response.
     
    Who's idea was it to tell the truth?????    Is that why they have now appointed an ex-cop.
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    East Lothian Saint reacted to oaksoft in Club covid executives - a statement.   
    And if we'd been able to show we had followed the rules we'd have probably got away with it.
     
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    East Lothian Saint reacted to Cumbriansaint72 in Club covid executives - a statement.   
    Things like car sharing should have been a big no-no. Even where I work this was actively discouraged even back in March/April time and things put in place to accommodate the influx of more cars. The only way players could have successfully stayed in a 'bubble' would have all been to stay together 24/7 which not entirely practical or viable. There are many things that I'm sure club should have done better.
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    East Lothian Saint reacted to oaksoft in Club covid executives - a statement.   
    For this debacle and also the historic financial irregularities. The buck stops at the top.
    It beggars belief that nobody seems to have taken charge of ensuring the clear SPFL and government agreed rules were not followed to the letter.
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    East Lothian Saint reacted to oaksoft in Club covid executives - a statement.   
    They are not breaching social distancing for extended periods of time during a match whereas on a coach or at meals they are.
    I think that is the argument.
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    East Lothian Saint reacted to oaksoft in Club covid executives - a statement.   
    They voted against an automatic rule I think.
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