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  • "My main concern is that no matter how good we have been in the NPC, we have allowed even the worst of teams to have clear openings on our goal.
    In many games it was only good goal keeping/bad finishing that enabled us to not fall behind or concede equalisers etc.
    The quality of finishing in the Premier League will not allow us to be so defensively naive as we have been this season, plus the extra pace of the strikers will be a major worry.
    Against Coventry they played 5 across the middle and for the first 15 minutes were the better side, creating 2 scoreable chances.
    Up front we will need more pace, just to stretch defences and give us the option of putting the ball over defences that push up.
    I'd like to see Chaplow play centre midfield, giving us a good tackler there. He also gets forward and scores, something we lack from that position. Definitely we need a good right sided midfielder."
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Saints stars face nervous wait over contracts

David Connolly David Connolly

STRIKER David Connolly headlines the group of players who are out of contract with promotion-winning Saints this summer.

The 34-year-old is due to become a free agent, along with fellow first-team squad members Radhi Jaidi, Lee Holmes, Bartosz Bialkowski and Ryan Doble.

Connolly, who made 26 appearances this season and scored six goals, has signed three successive one-year deals since arriving at St Mary’s in 2009.

Manager Nigel Adkins, pictured right, and chairman Nicola Cortese must now weigh up whether to take the forward, pictured above, with them into the Premier League.

Clubs need to confirm their retained and released list by the third Saturday in May, which is the 19th this year.

Connolly, who turns 35 next month, has experience of the top flight, having played there with Wigan and Sunderland.

But he has not featured for Saints since coming on as a substitute in a 2-0 home win against Barnsley on March 10.

Full story in today's Southern Daily Echo.

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