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Truly truly shocking. very few things make me genuinely angry, this was one of them. Not just for the unfairly discriminated foster parents but also for the children who were torn away from a home that was by their own council's admission a caring and loving environment

So. On the assumption not all is perfect. What would you want to be different?

You havn't answered my question. (You have a habit of doing that...) You are also drawing a false conclusion that I believe there to be a rift between Cortese and Adkins, I couldn't possibly know and couldn't say either way. So my question, answer it directly. Name me one incident where a rift between chairman/manager has been declared publicly by either and where it has then directly benefited the club and therefore the supporters? Frankly, in wanting full disclosure and clarity in the politics behind the scenes I think you are extremely naive. Maybe a little idealistic but certainly naive.

True, what a goal at West Brom. But his first real run in the side was under Poortvliet.

Lets hope it doesn't come to that. For what it's worth, they seem to be winning at the moment, they are getting politically what they never could have achieved through military means.

Name me a club/incident where someone has said something negative as you obviously would hope and for it to have ended well?

I'm certainly not upset, but I do find your manner of twisting words and throwing patronising statements ("your hero," for pities sake.....) to be a little off. My own opinion on this issue is that of course Cortese/Senior parties will have kept the illusion of a positive and unified front. The negatives of anyone coming out and saying "we are incapable of maintaining a professional relationship" would have been disastrous on many levels, but I understand why the candour would have been refreshing. There was obviously an untenable situation, it needed resolving and there would have been negatives however it was handled. The best thing is that both parties have thrived after it was resolved so the parting of the ways was fundamentally the correct thing to do. I'm sure Pardew got a handsome pay off and credit for starting a revival, as well as employment in what is now a stable top-flight club. Cortese ended up employing a man who could maximise our squad to levels none of use could possibly have expected. Win/Win

I'm not talking about the article, i'm talking about you. Attacking anything that the chairman has done which may be negative (he is not perfect and in that light these are things that do need to be discussed and debated) and then criticising/patronising those with perhaps a contrary opinion of the man with statements such as "what your hero said." You attack Cortese as having an agenda when you clearly also have one of your own to denigrate others who do not share your opinion. You are a parody, be it for the sake of keeping things interesting on here or for more deeper purpose I couldn't say. But you are clearly a parody, you are too intelligent on the face of things to lack that level of self awareness so it must be intentional.

Oh f**k me! You really are becoming laughable.

No, protecting their man I said. Anything detrimental to saints is just coincidental.

That northern echo article isn't the best researched. I know the Jan Poortvliet and Mark Wotte times are best forgotten, but still. There is obviously a bit of 'protecting their man' going on there but still. There appears to be agenda on all sides and as always the truth is inevitably somewhere in the middle.

Remember that game so vividly, my first ever at St Mary's. Sitting on the Northam/Kingsland corner and right in line with Beattie as he surged up the right flank before delivering his cross into Pahars at the Chapel end. A wonderful day, so good to get the monkey off our backs and a sign of things to come under Strachan in the next few years.

This Absolute self belief A respectful general public Outstanding beer Good domestic football Extremely competitive national team But being English, that's still being dealt an extremely good hand!

I couldn't imagine life without my tape-measure. How do you cope?

This almost misses the point. Everything a manager says has an impact. Be it a media statement a newspaper quote or a direct conversation gets back to the players. It's all a game. He is playing it brilliantly.

Credit where it's due. Honorary nutjob status for that skate please........

#coughs#Seventh#coughs#

I laugh at those London yobbo's! They havn't even entered the Southern League yet! Laughable to compare them to our wonderful club. They are no Millwall Athletic, barely even an Uxbridge.

To think they laughed at us when we hit rock bottom with the 13,257 against Sheffield United towards the base of the championship. That would constitute such progress for them. Have they found rock bottom yet or is the scraping around in the dirt just revealing further and further to fall?

It was one hell of a night! We even cracked the mead open.

Just think, they don't need the football league to punish them, it's all coming from within now. Dwindling crowds, poor team performances and more blood sucking mercenaries jumping on board. And firmly cemented now in the relegation zone.

Corp Ho

They are putting up a fight, bless those bestest fans! What a treat they are having tonight!