Will Nigel Adkins give Bart a game.

One of the high points of Saints season has been the qualty of player that they have in reserve in all positions and that includes in goal where Bart Bialkowski has had to spend all of the League season watching from the sidelines.

However Saints fans have known that should he have been called upon he would have been as good as most keepers in the division, as was shown not only by his appearances in the cup matches but in the spellhe played last season when Kelvin was injured.

With promotion in the bag under normal circumstances it would be nice to give him this game to reward him for his patience and dedication and so that he could say he did play a little part in the season, a look at the footage from Plymouth showed how pleased he was for us to clinch promotion so there is no doubt he deserves it.

But there is one small problem and that is Kelvin has played all of the league games so far and would surely want and deserve for that matter to make it a full set.

He has played all 46 for us once before, two years ago when we were relegated and im sure that he might feel that doing the full set in this season is finishing the job.

So given those circumstances starting Bart might be very unfair on Kelvin, however perhaps there is a compromise, perhaps after playing Kelvin for the first half, depending on how the game is going, Adkins could bring on Bart as a sub, either at half time or in the second half, some would perhaps laugh at this idea, but it would be a fitting reward for, in terms of league debut for the club, our longest serving player.       

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hortonsaint added 12:34 - May 6 I don't think that this should be even a consideration for NA tomorrow. I hope that he will be treating this as any other game, hoping to get 92 points and making sure there is no cause for other teams at the bottom to say we took it easy against Walsall who will be hugely up for this in what is a critical game for them
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bstokesaint added 13:03 - May 6 I agree we should go for the 92 points. Two points a game is some going and looking down the leagues few have achieved that average. That said I still think we could make 3 or 4 changes to incorporate fringe players without fielding a weak side. We should still be too good for Walsall. I'd love to see Bart play more games, but then Kelvin is there on merit and maybe a late substitution is not such a crazy idea, especially if the game is won by that stage, else it may be deemed a little bit unprofessional.

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mickyt7 added 13:40 - May 6 Kelvin first half, Bart second. Professional man management.
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jacksk1 added 16:08 - May 6 I agree with bstokesaint in that getting to 92 points and the '2 points per game average' would be a fantastic achievement. Across the 92 league clubs only ourselves, Brighton (who have already achieved it), Man Utd (need 3 points from their last 3 games), Chelsea (need to win at least 2 of their last 3) and Arsenal (need to win all of their last 3) are in a position to achieve that average. Handing out a drubbing to Walsall would also see us go some way to securing the highest GD across the four divisions as the current top 5 is as follows: Saints +46 Brighton +45 QPR +40 Man U +38 Chelsea +38 Although Man U and Chelsea still have 3 games to go compared to only 1 game left for Saints, Brighton and QPR.

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