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Every job at whatever level being paid for with public funds should be evaluated. It is necessary, keep it, it can be done without, get rid of it. The public sector should consist only of the essential public services. Leisure, PR etc should be cut unless self financing through fees..

I think it came from Ron. email him. With his impact, being Markus Leibherr's favourite player, Pardew wasn't going to get away with ditching him especially as he had to agree to the club's ambition on style. I think it was more likely that he didn't want to stay, with Pardew's attitude and his political position in the middle.

We were told that he wouldn't stay with Pardew as manager rather than the other way round.

Brilliant.

I'd have him back today. What he gave us we don't have now, a much better player than he has been given credit for.

I know Nick socially and he is a decent person that lives for the Saints, can't meet up next week as he is in Hartlepool with another 1000 real supporters. As for most of us it's far too much trouble to do a 500 mile round trip and get back in the early hours but Nick does it all the time.

I played golf with David Peach the day after he had a 'snip'. We all couldn't stop laughing as he was walking like a jockey on tiptoe wishing he hadn't bothered.

I knew him quite well at Stoneham. He was a good player if a bit small. In those days everybody attacked, a hundred goals a season was regularly achieved. I still remember all those players and the teams selected.

Bryn Elliott was in the first team when I started going. He was a left half (central midfielder). A member at Stoneham for years. He is a really nice person.

He was brought in and a fee agreed prior to Pardew leaving. Only signings after Adkins arrived can be attributed to him.

Adkins has spent £50k, one loan, one released because contract not being renewed. How much did Pardew spend? Millions. This was a silly comparison with no chance of a valid answer.

Tranmere, Exeter, Peterborough, a good keeper, you are having a laugh.We defend better at home and lot of his mistakes are away and cost us points. 10 away games left and Davis in goal in his present form could screw our promotion this season.

You are in the minority now defending the indefensible, Davis is a liability. The sooner he is out of the team, the better. His present form is schizophrenic and his lapses may well add up to no promotion. It must be his off field influence certainly not his onfield performances that are keeping him in the team. As a goalkeeper Collin dominated his box and communicated well with his defence, shotstopped when he had to and had no chance with the goal. Along with half the keepers in the league far better all round than Davis.

Collin looked like a good keeper today. Davis and Fonte nearly messed it up again a la Tranmere.

Anyone ride on the trams?

Rialto-Shirley just west of the Atherly. Regal - High St Forum-Above Bar Broadway-Portswood Empire aka Gaumont-Commercial Rd Odeon-Above Bar

I've got the same tv and watched an England PPV game on the internet via the tv by using usb/hdmi cable link from laptop to tv, but disable the screensaver on the laptop as every so often it stops the picture until the keyboard is used.. I also have the latest 3D Samsung tv which links to the router wirelessly and needs setting up with the remote but I haven't bothered to set it up as I don't use it.

I was a young quantity surveyor on the building of Dimond road school in 1963 at the same time the concrete runway was built at the airport. Not long after that I became a pilot and flew Heralds and Fokker F27s out of the airport. More than likely flew over you. Used to use the Tudor Cafe at the junction in the fifties, most of the Saints players hung out there after training at the dell.

Only allowed inside if they win.

Ian White's tel no is in the book, Bartley. Midfielder in first division promotion side 1965/6. sports shop, coach.

So do I, but I'm not blaming him as it is a given that he'll stay anchored on the goal line so somebody else however unfairly has to deal with it and Harding let his man get by him because instead of going for the ball he tried to impede Whelpdale, missed and was caught flat footed. This is why I want Davis out especially as he is also making errors gifting goals.

I don't rate MS highly as I think his workrate and effort is poor. His one goal in his Saints career is a joke. Sadly as a youngster he seems to have been allowed to limit himself to strolling around and just passing, whilst avoiding the work rate and effort that is needed to be a midfield player. Against MU with a bit of extra effort he looked brilliant in midfield but faded out in the second half and provided nothing in the MU penalty area. My biggest criticism of him is the number of times he unloads the ball to anyone even five yds away then stops moving slowing everything down. He has a lot of ability on the ball but no dynamism hence the lack of threat in the opposition's half.

Firstly Davis WAS a top Championship goalkeeper at Ipswich and went to the Premier with Sunderland on the back of that. He had a nightmare season at Sunderland and it could only be the Ipswich connection that made Burley/Saints pay £2m for him. When he first came he made all sorts of errors, the worst v QPR early in the season. He then settled down to be purely a shotstopper and a good one at that who had a good long kick but nothing else. The relegation season saw him as the star, as the poor side exposed him to a lot of shotstopping opportunities. Since relegation he has been playing behind a decent defence and again in the main his shotstopping has been good but that is not enough. Match after match I see goalkeepers that can shotstop but have other talents, communication, decision making, good early distribution, appropriate intervention on crosses, even Exeter's reserve Jones looked a decent keeper, but for him we would have reached double figures. Davis is now making multiple errors, Tranmere, Exeter, Peterborough and if it had been an outfield player they would have be dropped as happened to the back four/midfield players. Bart has performed well in the last two seasons, any time he has been called on and deserves the opportunity to prove himself one way or the other. Either way we need a replacement for Davis in due course. I don't blame Davis for the second goal because Harding was ball watching, didn't go for the ball and allowed Whelpdale to get in front of him and not only block him but head the ball in. I don't blame Davis for the goal as the ball was six yds out, therefore as he stays on his line virtually always, he was never going to go for the cross, so a defender had to deal with it but didn't. Having said that, it is a prime reason I want him out because a keeper that does deal with crosses would have intervened. As for the save before the first goal, it was nothing out of the ordinary and was a fifty fifty block with the legs most goalkeepers would have achieved as Lewis demonstrated in the second half. If he hadn't made the save is hypothetical, however added to the first goal where he should have done better, it would have dented his reputation as a shot stopper, without which he would be unsupportable.

I understand your reservations but in the here and now we have a problem with stoppable goals and Bialkowski may not be the answer, but he is an answer and has kept two clean sheets out of three and let two goal in against MU neither he could be blamed for, whilst last season he had a cracking six games and a loan period at Barnsley where he was outstanding. We certainly can't afford to let Davis have much more time the way we are leaking giveaway goals. A lot of goalkeepers at our level catch/punch our corners and free kicks that are floated into the goal area which immediately ends the threat. Opponents put our defenders under enormous pressure because the ball is delivered between the six yd box and under the crossbar and only rarely does Davis react, which isn't good enough in my book. There is a massive difference between appropriate catching/punching and hardly at all. The very top keepers, Cech, Van de Sar, Reina totally dominate their goal area. I'm looking for where appropriate like Bialkowski, not almost never, like Davis. If our goalkeeper showed a competency and willingness to deal with problems in the goal area the delivery would have to be further out.

Bill, I have seen most of the games that Bialkowski has played in the last two seasons and I think unless we bring in a better keeper than either of them, Bialkowski is the better all round keeper. John and I are in agreement and we both know what a dominating header of the ball he was, he absolutely hates the way Davis is anchored to his line, none of the Saints defenders are even remotely as good in the air as he was and as a goalkeeper who played behind him, you will understand that dominant as he was, you still had to back that up. Davis is making too many fatal mistakes and four of the last seven goals are down to him. We both think the defence looks much more comfortable with Bialkowski than Davis. Every time the ball comes into our box his indecision and lack of judgement is causing us problems. He is also short for a goalkeeper which makes it difficult to deal with crosses.