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I really don't know what to think Nick. I don't believe that Cortese wanted Pardew to stay or fought his corner against Markus..as for the rest, God knows.

Come on Nick, I know you are working hard at cutting Cortese some slack but even you must have picked up on the lack of support last season? Why was there all that fuss last season about Pardew being up for the sack? Even when he was forced to come out and give a statement is was less then convincing.

So we had Burley as an alchy and Pardew as a major sh*gger -all rumour and conjecture but it gets repeated a few times then it becomes fact.

Yep...all seems very odd.

Yep, there could be another explanation, but there are two main players in this situation and various stories flying around, some of which might be true. Cortese made the call. He has been cool towards Pardew for quite some time. I don't but this stuff about Markus wanting him out and Cortese fighting his corner. Cortese doesn't want to come out of this looking like the bad guy so who has most to gain from getting a little spin out there? For someone who doesn't like to talk to the media where do these sources close to Nicola suddenly spring from? If there was truth in the punch up rumour why didn't a well known journo like Samuals pick up on it? Curiouser and couriouser There are lots of things that just don't add up here.

Why? It is not his money at the end of the day.

Not going there as it is as unlikely as us signing the European Player of the Year.

Indeed. I don't know either of these people yet I have not seen Pardew behave in a way that has been anything but professional. Cortese on the other hand has already made lots of enemies in the media and at the club and I do wonder about the possible spin now coming out. Goodness knows what the truth is but whilst people are saying if it is true then Pardew is a right ****, what I would say is if it is not true what does that make Cortese?

Who knows indeed, but you would imagine that if Pardew was so hated by some of the players why they didn't perform better last night?

Which doesn't explain in the least why Cortese didn't seem to support Pardew at all.

How on earth can you make that type of statement when you do not know the two individuals involved? You have no more idea over what has happened than I hav eyet you make a crass statement like that. Jeez Alpine, you take the biscuit.

Funny though all the same.

I agree. I can't believe that e are going through this process again when if there is one thing this club needs it is to keep hold of a manager for a decent length of time. Clubs that do well are stable clubs in the main. You get the sense that with Cortese's impatience we are not going to get that from him. It is all very well going on about strength etc but Lowe was the same and he got blasted for it. It is all very well kicking ar*e if your decisions are the right ones. Time will tell with Cortese but this was his biggest call so far and I think he got it totally wrong.

Can I take a photo?

It all went downhill when we ditched the stripes.

JUst a thought, but do you think we would have lost 3-0 if Pardew was still here?

Potentially it could be worse!

I don't knowwhat the score would have been if Cortese had not sacked Pardew, but I do think that it did not help the situation tonight.

If it was personal then why sack the other two? It all seems very odd to me. I wonder if they all feel out over our new "Brazilian"?

I feel sorry for Wilkins. He knows no matter what the results are like his a*se is fired soon too.

Which makes the timing of the decision even more strange.

You have to ask yourself, what type of football club have SFC become over the last few weeks. We seem to be doing our level best to throw away all of the good things from last season. Was Markus keeping Cortese in check, or is this what he wanted all along?....jeez, who knows?

After the win on Saturday it seemed like the season had started. Now you just wonder what horror is waiting for us next. One thing to ditch the manager but three of them at once? I don't know what Cortese is thinking about but he seems to know nothing about sport or who to handle big calls. Depending on who comes in it may still work out okay, but at the moment I can't help thinking that our CEO has made a very, very big mistake.

I appreciate you are in a very difficult position tonight Alps have wanted to see the back of Pardew for months and backing Cortese to the hilt in every decsion he has made, so I will leave you alone to digest just what is happening (AGAIN) to this football club.

I wasn't at the game and unlike you Alps. If you ever bothered to read my posts I asked why does the manager always get the blame and not the players - to date you have always found it easy to have a pop at the manager - what has changed tonight?