steve bruce is confident he can keep hull city in the premier league this season that at the start of the campaign bruce was targeting 10 wins to survive , but despite a strong start his hull side have mustered just six and he is hoping ` nine or eight might be enough .
' hull were the better side against southampton for the first 45 minutes but a james ward-prowse penalty and late strike from graziano pelle meant they left with nothing .
` we are big players for us and unfortunately , at this moment , we have battled on manfully but not quite been good enough .