mono-stereo I’d certainly hope so. But you have to wonder. He must have known where this was all heading. He’s been planning it for ages. He’s explicitly threatened to use them - can he back down now without undermining his credibility? What is his exit strategy here? Everyone else backs off and he gets his own way, and if they don’t he just says “only joking lads, c’mon, let’s just be mates again?”
I can’t see an easy way out here unless he’s deposed from within to be honest.