Kelvin Davis snubs West Ham for new Southampton deal (From This is Hampshire)

ken j wrote:
Thanks Kelvin,now give Mark Wotte a deal and Michael Svenssen and we are on the way COYR

brissie saint wrote:

ken j wrote:
Thanks Kelvin,now give Mark Wotte a deal and Michael Svenssen and we are on the way COYR

isnt Wotte now on a rolling 12 month contract? As 'Manager' now, rather than 'coach' - tho not sure what the difference is??

chapellady wrote:
Can we now hold onto Stern John and Jason Euall? I am really excited about the new season now. A lot of the teams in league 1 have average attendances of less than 8000 so we must make SMS a fortress and fill it every home game, that's the least we owe Mr Liebherr.

Tirau Dan (NZL) wrote:

brissie saint wrote:

ken j wrote: Thanks Kelvin,now give Mark Wotte a deal and Michael Svenssen and we are on the way COYR

isnt Wotte now on a rolling 12 month contract? As 'Manager' now, rather than 'coach' - tho not sure what the difference is??

Brilliant.. well done Nicola hope/wish you were staying on at SMS. Thanks Kelvin..you are no hammer man you are a Saint! Hi Brissie.. Mark Wotte is on a rolling 12 month contract as manager. In Pommy land footy the manager is boss his staff include trainers and coaches, scouts and medics etc They works to his plans and strategies. The manager also does the selections and transfers under board governance and policy making. He was having a meeting to get his budget and instructions so will have a better idea of where he stands. This had to be doen quick so obviously Nicola did it..Great!!! were on the ball..

joeboy wrote:
Should of let him go .He was a rat leaving a sinking ship last week.Not that good anyway.

stmarysmush wrote:
I think west ham sussed Kelvin out. Crossed a few balls when he dropped 50% they had seen enough.

brissie saint wrote:

Tirau Dan (NZL) wrote:

brissie saint wrote:

ken j wrote: Thanks Kelvin,now give Mark Wotte a deal and Michael Svenssen and we are on the way COYR

isnt Wotte now on a rolling 12 month contract? As 'Manager' now, rather than 'coach' - tho not sure what the difference is??

Brilliant.. well done Nicola hope/wish you were staying on at SMS. Thanks Kelvin..you are no hammer man you are a Saint! Hi Brissie.. Mark Wotte is on a rolling 12 month contract as manager. In Pommy land footy the manager is boss his staff include trainers and coaches, scouts and medics etc They works to his plans and strategies. The manager also does the selections and transfers under board governance and policy making. He was having a meeting to get his budget and instructions so will have a better idea of where he stands. This had to be doen quick so obviously Nicola did it..Great!!! were on the ball..

Hi mate... I've only been in oz 2 years... Although I was at SMS about 3-4 weeks ago (and funny enough in Switzerland the week before that!!) haha. Born n bred in hampshire (the RED half). Southampton till I die.
You a warriors fan by any chance? Great result at suncorp the other day. (sorry, wrong code, couldn't resist).
I'm just relived, like everyone else SFC is still around.

stmarysmush wrote:
I think west ham sussed Kelvin out. Crossed a few balls when he dropped 50% they had seen enough.

joeboy wrote:
Should of let him go .He was a rat leaving a sinking ship last week.Not that good anyway.

Auckland_Saint wrote:

joeboy wrote:
Should of let him go .He was a rat leaving a sinking ship last week.Not that good anyway.

If you were in his position with a doubt over your future and someone came in with an offer i'm sure youd' take it if it meant you had a job to go to on Monday morning.
Why do you think Kelvin stuck it out so long?! He knew something would come along just waited and waited as long as he could like a true Saint would do.
He's a first class goal keeper with an immense level of ability, so at the end of this season coming you post on here again and say that Kelvin Davis is 'not that good anyway' when we're top of league one with a plus 60 goal difference.

SHEESH!!!

COYR

Tirau Dan (NZL) wrote:

Auckland_Saint wrote:

joeboy wrote:
Should of let him go .He was a rat leaving a sinking ship last week.Not that good anyway.

If you were in his position with a doubt over your future and someone came in with an offer i'm sure youd' take it if it meant you had a job to go to on Monday morning.
Why do you think Kelvin stuck it out so long?! He knew something would come along just waited and waited as long as he could like a true Saint would do.
He's a first class goal keeper with an immense level of ability, so at the end of this season coming you post on here again and say that Kelvin Davis is 'not that good anyway' when we're top of league one with a plus 60 goal difference.

SHEESH!!!

COYR

touché... well said for a jafa saint lol

Hammers even announced he was playing on Saturday for them...haha good for him he covered his options and pulled the pin in favour of his home. A Saint that man.

Hey did anyone go to the ted bates statue party? how'd it go.. or is everyone too hung over to post?

realist returns wrote:

stmarysmush wrote: I think west ham sussed Kelvin out. Crossed a few balls when he dropped 50% they had seen enough.

bl**dy hell, there's always one, isn't there? Shut up you carping idiot. We've just had the best news we could have had, and, all right Kelvin isn't Gordon Banks or Peter Shilton, but he's one of the top half-dozen in Britain at present (better than David James, for sure) and he's prepared to reject a Premiership club for a Third Division outfit. What does that say about Saints? And what sort of message will it send to other players who might be on the shopping list? Thanks Markus, thanks Kelvin.

stmarysmush wrote:

realist returns wrote:

stmarysmush wrote: I think west ham sussed Kelvin out. Crossed a few balls when he dropped 50% they had seen enough.

bl**dy hell, there's always one, isn't there? Shut up you carping idiot. We've just had the best news we could have had, and, all right Kelvin isn't Gordon Banks or Peter Shilton, but he's one of the top half-dozen in Britain at present (better than David James, for sure) and he's prepared to reject a Premiership club for a Third Division outfit. What does that say about Saints? And what sort of message will it send to other players who might be on the shopping list? Thanks Markus, thanks Kelvin.

He`s not even ERIC MARTIN. Im not doubting his commitment to saints there seems no question about that. I saying he`s rubbish thats all. Pearson saw he was rubbish thas why he got Richard Wright in and saved us going down. The following year our Hero was in goal all year and we had the biggist minus goal difference ever. We conceded goals for fun and some of that is down to him.

stmarysmush wrote:

realist returns wrote:

stmarysmush wrote: I think west ham sussed Kelvin out. Crossed a few balls when he dropped 50% they had seen enough.

bl**dy hell, there's always one, isn't there? Shut up you carping idiot. We've just had the best news we could have had, and, all right Kelvin isn't Gordon Banks or Peter Shilton, but he's one of the top half-dozen in Britain at present (better than David James, for sure) and he's prepared to reject a Premiership club for a Third Division outfit. What does that say about Saints? And what sort of message will it send to other players who might be on the shopping list? Thanks Markus, thanks Kelvin.

He`s not even ERIC MARTIN. Im not doubting his commitment to saints there seems no question about that. I saying he`s rubbish thats all. Pearson saw he was rubbish thas why he got Richard Wright in and saved us going down. The following year our Hero was in goal all year and we had the biggist minus goal difference ever. We conceded goals for fun and some of that is down to him.

matt del torro wrote:
i cant understand people knocking davis he made some world class saves last season and personally im glad he didnt leave to trebble his salary obviously he wants to play for saints and that is surely to our benefit

chip eater wrote:

stmarysmush wrote:

realist returns wrote:

stmarysmush wrote: I think west ham sussed Kelvin out. Crossed a few balls when he dropped 50% they had seen enough.

bl**dy hell, there's always one, isn't there? Shut up you carping idiot. We've just had the best news we could have had, and, all right Kelvin isn't Gordon Banks or Peter Shilton, but he's one of the top half-dozen in Britain at present (better than David James, for sure) and he's prepared to reject a Premiership club for a Third Division outfit. What does that say about Saints? And what sort of message will it send to other players who might be on the shopping list? Thanks Markus, thanks Kelvin.

He`s not even ERIC MARTIN. Im not doubting his commitment to saints there seems no question about that. I saying he`s rubbish thats all. Pearson saw he was rubbish thas why he got Richard Wright in and saved us going down. The following year our Hero was in goal all year and we had the biggist minus goal difference ever. We conceded goals for fun and some of that is down to him.

I know you can say anything on here without any way of prooving it, but did you actually see any live games last year apart form a couple of drink fuelled games on tv. KD may not have stopped us losing many matches but we would have lost by double the margin in most. check out the OPTA stata (think that's what they're called

chip eater wrote:

stmarysmush wrote:

realist returns wrote:

stmarysmush wrote: I think west ham sussed Kelvin out. Crossed a few balls when he dropped 50% they had seen enough.

bl**dy hell, there's always one, isn't there? Shut up you carping idiot. We've just had the best news we could have had, and, all right Kelvin isn't Gordon Banks or Peter Shilton, but he's one of the top half-dozen in Britain at present (better than David James, for sure) and he's prepared to reject a Premiership club for a Third Division outfit. What does that say about Saints? And what sort of message will it send to other players who might be on the shopping list? Thanks Markus, thanks Kelvin.

He`s not even ERIC MARTIN. Im not doubting his commitment to saints there seems no question about that. I saying he`s rubbish thats all. Pearson saw he was rubbish thas why he got Richard Wright in and saved us going down. The following year our Hero was in goal all year and we had the biggist minus goal difference ever. We conceded goals for fun and some of that is down to him.

I know you can say anything on here without any way of prooving it, but did you actually see any live games last year apart form a couple of drink fuelled games on tv. KD may not have stopped us losing many matches but we would have lost by double the margin in most. check out the OPTA stata (think that's what they're called

stmarysmush wrote:
I think west ham sussed Kelvin out. Crossed a few balls when he dropped 50% they had seen enough.

saintsue wrote:

stmarysmush wrote: I think west ham sussed Kelvin out. Crossed a few balls when he dropped 50% they had seen enough.

I would like to put this scenario to you if Saints had been pushing for promotion last season with kelvin in goal, his phenominal performances would have been worth 4 or 5 points to us! That is league wining form on its own merits. The fact that he hung in there for a new contract unitl the very last minute shows commitment to the cause. Are you Pompey in disguise?

matt del torro wrote:
is simon gillett still with us only seen him play a couple of times but was very impressed.reminded me of david armstrong but with hair

stmarysmush wrote:

chip eater wrote:

stmarysmush wrote:

realist returns wrote:

stmarysmush wrote: I think west ham sussed Kelvin out. Crossed a few balls when he dropped 50% they had seen enough.

bl**dy hell, there's always one, isn't there? Shut up you carping idiot. We've just had the best news we could have had, and, all right Kelvin isn't Gordon Banks or Peter Shilton, but he's one of the top half-dozen in Britain at present (better than David James, for sure) and he's prepared to reject a Premiership club for a Third Division outfit. What does that say about Saints? And what sort of message will it send to other players who might be on the shopping list? Thanks Markus, thanks Kelvin.

He`s not even ERIC MARTIN. Im not doubting his commitment to saints there seems no question about that. I saying he`s rubbish thats all. Pearson saw he was rubbish thas why he got Richard Wright in and saved us going down. The following year our Hero was in goal all year and we had the biggist minus goal difference ever. We conceded goals for fun and some of that is down to him.

I know you can say anything on here without any way of prooving it, but did you actually see any live games last year apart form a couple of drink fuelled games on tv. KD may not have stopped us losing many matches but we would have lost by double the margin in most. check out the OPTA stata (think that's what they're called

Well I did see two live games. Barnsley and Derby, and those live TV games. The first two were shocking football games as neither teams were any good and a point per team was a joke as both deseved nil.As for the TV games you have to admit ROCKET fuel was needed to sit through those games. Cringeworthy to say the least. On the last subject it dosent matter if you lose by 1 or 5 once we were behind it was all over and to the bar for another.

chip eater wrote:

stmarysmush wrote:

chip eater wrote:

stmarysmush wrote:

realist returns wrote:

stmarysmush wrote: I think west ham sussed Kelvin out. Crossed a few balls when he dropped 50% they had seen enough.

bl**dy hell, there's always one, isn't there? Shut up you carping idiot. We've just had the best news we could have had, and, all right Kelvin isn't Gordon Banks or Peter Shilton, but he's one of the top half-dozen in Britain at present (better than David James, for sure) and he's prepared to reject a Premiership club for a Third Division outfit. What does that say about Saints? And what sort of message will it send to other players who might be on the shopping list? Thanks Markus, thanks Kelvin.

He`s not even ERIC MARTIN. Im not doubting his commitment to saints there seems no question about that. I saying he`s rubbish thats all. Pearson saw he was rubbish thas why he got Richard Wright in and saved us going down. The following year our Hero was in goal all year and we had the biggist minus goal difference ever. We conceded goals for fun and some of that is down to him.

I know you can say anything on here without any way of prooving it, but did you actually see any live games last year apart form a couple of drink fuelled games on tv. KD may not have stopped us losing many matches but we would have lost by double the margin in most. check out the OPTA stata (think that's what they're called

Well I did see two live games. Barnsley and Derby, and those live TV games. The first two were shocking football games as neither teams were any good and a point per team was a joke as both deseved nil.As for the TV games you have to admit ROCKET fuel was needed to sit through those games. Cringeworthy to say the least. On the last subject it dosent matter if you lose by 1 or 5 once we were behind it was all over and to the bar for another.

barnsley and derby!! they were the good games.
qpr game : if you remember lowe was on the bench giving instructions.
Kelvin is our best player, not buffon, but our best player and we need to keep our best player

Saints Mike wrote:

chip eater wrote:

stmarysmush wrote:

chip eater wrote:

stmarysmush wrote:

realist returns wrote:

stmarysmush wrote: I think west ham sussed Kelvin out. Crossed a few balls when he dropped 50% they had seen enough.

bl**dy hell, there's always one, isn't there? Shut up you carping idiot. We've just had the best news we could have had, and, all right Kelvin isn't Gordon Banks or Peter Shilton, but he's one of the top half-dozen in Britain at present (better than David James, for sure) and he's prepared to reject a Premiership club for a Third Division outfit. What does that say about Saints? And what sort of message will it send to other players who might be on the shopping list? Thanks Markus, thanks Kelvin.

He`s not even ERIC MARTIN. Im not doubting his commitment to saints there seems no question about that. I saying he`s rubbish thats all. Pearson saw he was rubbish thas why he got Richard Wright in and saved us going down. The following year our Hero was in goal all year and we had the biggist minus goal difference ever. We conceded goals for fun and some of that is down to him.

I know you can say anything on here without any way of prooving it, but did you actually see any live games last year apart form a couple of drink fuelled games on tv. KD may not have stopped us losing many matches but we would have lost by double the margin in most. check out the OPTA stata (think that's what they're called

Well I did see two live games. Barnsley and Derby, and those live TV games. The first two were shocking football games as neither teams were any good and a point per team was a joke as both deseved nil.As for the TV games you have to admit ROCKET fuel was needed to sit through those games. Cringeworthy to say the least. On the last subject it dosent matter if you lose by 1 or 5 once we were behind it was all over and to the bar for another.

barnsley and derby!! they were the good games. qpr game : if you remember lowe was on the bench giving instructions. Kelvin is our best player, not buffon, but our best player and we need to keep our best player

Chip eater, I watched every home game last season and most away games, also the season before that. Lets be honest here,Kelvin doesn't command his box, sometimes looks really dodgey on crosses, having said that one on one in box I agree with you, not many better. He stayed because (in his words) his missus love's it down, his kids are settled. He didn't go the West Ham because he wouldn't get a game, in front of Robert Green I think not. I'm glad he is staying only because Bart looks even dodgier sometimes, and I have not seen enough of Forecast to comment, except to say, if he was better than Kelvin JP or MW would have picked him. Keep it real. Keep the faith. Keep going to St Mary's.

Tirau Dan (NZL) wrote:
Hey guys whats the story with Surman refusing to play while demanding a transfer to a Championship or Prem Club. I see mark Wotte told Mick McCarthy to take a flying leap offering only half a mil Good on him. Shouldn't Surman have to play if he is on contract or is their some silly clause allowing this behaviour. Maybe our Kelvin could give him a word or two about loyalty. I understand the will to play in a higher league but if you are on contract you must honour it and play or pay.

weh8pompey wrote:
question/
how many footballs have shown the integrity and pro. that kelvin davies has shown?
answer/none.

sdowd2 wrote:
GOOD ON YOU KELVIN.YOUR ANOTHER LEGEND IN THE MAKING
IF ONLY OTHER PROS IN THE GAME COULD FOLLOW YOUR EXAMPLE.
THE PROFFESSIONALISM AND PATIENTS YOU AND MARK WOTTE HAVE SHOWN DESERVE THE HIGHEST REWARD.COYR

Tirau Dan (NZL) wrote:
Hey guys whats the story with Surman refusing to play while demanding a transfer to a Championship or Prem Club.

I see mark Wotte told Mick McCarthy to take a flying leap offering only half a mil Good on him.

Shouldn't Surman have to play if he is on contract or is their some silly clause allowing this behaviour.

Maybe our Kelvin could give him a word or two about loyalty.

I understand the will to play in a higher league but if you are on contract you must honour it and play or pay.

joeboy wrote:
Should of let him go .He was a rat leaving a sinking ship last week.Not that good anyway.

techsture wrote:
Worst news I have had all summer. Davis is useless he took Sunderland Down almost single handed, Took us down, and cannot kick out of his hands. "I always said that League One football doesn't scare me" Well Kelvin thats because its where u belong at your standard. Please tell me its just a dream.

seedhouse wrote:
To those morons making negative posts about Kelvin will you please tell me why he was player of the year last season? Because he not only had a fantastic season but he motivated and pushed the kids along and remained loyal to the club. He has obviously strung out the West Ham move for as long as he could to give the club every opportunity to keep him. I run a fairly large company which is successful because we employ people with attitudes like his. We have developed our recruitment processes to ensure we weed out people like you early on. We don't need negative, small minded non team players and nor does Saints.

Saint Anders wrote:

Tirau Dan (NZL) wrote: Hey guys whats the story with Surman refusing to play while demanding a transfer to a Championship or Prem Club. I see mark Wotte told Mick McCarthy to take a flying leap offering only half a mil Good on him. Shouldn't Surman have to play if he is on contract or is their some silly clause allowing this behaviour. Maybe our Kelvin could give him a word or two about loyalty. I understand the will to play in a higher league but if you are on contract you must honour it and play or pay.

if this is true, i have lost all respect for surman, i lost abit of faith when he left, but can understand his reasons, i mean anyone wants to play in the premier league.

allsaintsnocurves wrote:

Saint Anders wrote:

Tirau Dan (NZL) wrote: Hey guys whats the story with Surman refusing to play while demanding a transfer to a Championship or Prem Club. I see mark Wotte told Mick McCarthy to take a flying leap offering only half a mil Good on him. Shouldn't Surman have to play if he is on contract or is their some silly clause allowing this behaviour. Maybe our Kelvin could give him a word or two about loyalty. I understand the will to play in a higher league but if you are on contract you must honour it and play or pay.

if this is true, i have lost all respect for surman, i lost abit of faith when he left, but can understand his reasons, i mean anyone wants to play in the premier league.

Surman's already been sold to Wolves for over £1m so you must mean Lallana.

He didn't refuse to play he asked not to play in a couple of games and has expressed an interest to move. The club can force him to play but if he is only concerned about not getting injured and his heart isn't in it then it is better to play someone else and keep him out.

He is in my opinion a better player than Surman and younger so we are definitely not going to accept anything less than £1m for him. More like £2m or £3m.

He has a lot to thank the Saints for though and is a local lad so I would be very disappointed in him if he really and truly wanted to go this year without helping us get out of this division.