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Oops, remarkably I found the 1st 2, Fistral Beach was never really in it.

Well I think he would have stopped most boxers within 6 rounds, Ruiz is so durable but had little else to offer even if Haye was not overly happy with his own performance.

That was certainly more like it after the Valuev fight where the size difference made for a very dull fight. Ruiz took a right beating, credit to him for surviving as long as he did but I fully expect and hope he'll call it a day now. Of course it now has to be Haye v the Klitchos, they are certainly not going to fight each other. Time to pay Valuev whatever he wants to step aside as the mandatory challenger, not a fight the Heavyweight division needs at all.

Indeed NC deserves credit for appointing Pardew but to replace him now would make no sense to me at all. At the time of the take over Cortese was quoted as saying : "I realise that there are great expectations and I will ensure that every effort is expended to meet these expectations, but effectively we need to restructure and create a solid base from which we can build and become successful. This will take time. We will take our example from our supporters, who already are what we aim to become – Premier League. With their support we will again become a Premier League Club. The supporters, the City of Southampton and the region deserve nothing less. Everyone at the Club will be fully committed to responding to this great challenge. " So far so good and indeed time is an issue but in my opinion we have created a very solid base to work from and achieve what we all want and indeed expect which is initially promotion back to CC1. However, even though I am an eternal optimist I never seriously believed we could achieve promotion this season so credit for the fact it is still an outside possibility at this stage of the season. So we reach February and find NC saying : "If you go back to the beginning of the season, Southampton were probably not in a much different position than Norwich or Charlton, with the difference that we started on minus ten points; but Norwich or Charlton had no money to spend in the window. We all know what we spent. Now we are approximately 30 points behind Norwich and 20 points behind Charlton. I think that gap is simply too big." Well there I beg to differ since our total lack of a pre season meant we were in a different position to EVERY league 1 club, that's not an excuse but a reason for a poor start and one of course that will not wash next season. Whether the words were meant as a criticism of Pardew only Cortese knows for sure but I believed then and I believe now they were something to be kept "in house". Lets not forget either that when Cortese was apparently approached by AC Milan in January to join their board of directors he declined saying ""Southampton is my baby I'm not going to abandon it. " Probably an innocent remark but I always thought the club was for everyone and of course it's Markus Liebherr who owns the club and who appointed NC as Executive Chairman. So the credit is his as much as anyone's, arguably more so. FWIW I think the ML/NC/AP team has done an excellent job, my only concern is if Cortese gets ahead of himself. Getting rid of Pardew would definitely indicate to me he has so I for one would not be happy if that happened. I doubt very much I am the only one and certainly not from reading the posts on here.

Seebohm

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Don't think you'll find the facts bear that out eg 5-0 v Huddersfield and precisely no goals were the result of "hit and hope narrow football ", ditto the 5 v Walsall. I could go on but no need, making statements like that makes me wonder what exactly you base that on ??

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mash

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UKIP, Eastleigh Soul Boy will I'm sure know why

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Pompey

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jensen

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paul

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