Kelvin Davis will make his 600th regular season League appearance if he gets the nod from Nigel Adkins to play against Sunderland.
This total doesnt include play off games only normal league matches in a career thats been spread over 19 years since making his debut for Luton as a trainee on the final day of the 93/94 season, since then he has played for another 7 clubs, including Torquay & Hartlepool on loan, Wimbledon and Ipswich and appropriately enough if he does play on Saturday Sunderland before joining Saints in the summer of 2006 for a fee reported as a million pounds.
Its fair to say though that perhaps his stay at Sunderland was the lowlight of that career he played 33 games in the Premiership for them, his only top flight experience prior to this season and as Sunderland went down with a meagre 15 points again ironic as that the total Saints start the game on Saturday with, the Black Cats conceded 69 goals which at less than two goals per game average shows they didnt get drubbed week in week out but that their problem was scoring goals, the fans however didnt quite see it that way and blamed Kelvin for most of those conceded meaning he left the club after only one season with the abuse of the fans ringing in his ears.
In fairness in his first two seasons at St Mary's he was perhaps shell shocked and with his confidence shot he did not excel, in his third year with Saints heading for relegation he had a lot to do and therefore made a lot more saves which helped sway the Saints supporters in his direction and since then he hasnt looked back, his 255 Saints league games so far being by far the biggest total he has played for any of his clubs.
I dont think there will be many Saints fans who will begrudge Kelvin a round of aplause if he plays on Saturday although sadly I think there might be 1700 Mackems who might want to voice their opinion.