PHIL DAVIS NEWS

PHIL DAVIS :"The Bee's Knee's"

"He leaves a gap...simply as that, he will be hard to replace." Gary Kerrigan NCP player/manager

"He's done very well for this lot, he's been great." Jeff the ref

Phil Davis leaves NCP with an impressive record of having played 81 games and conceded 78 goals, considering the leaky defence that played infront of him during his first two seasons in which they let through 46 goals in just 19 matches-the latter part of his tenure seems more impressive. Thats 32 goals against in his last 62 appearances.

The biggest regret for the brummie shot-stopper is that he gained the team that he built no silverware: "I felt that we could and should have gone on to win the NCP services National Challenge Trophy (The Barry Hibbs Memorial Cup) in august 2007 in London, we were knocked out on penalties by Fulham when we were at our peak...that was bitterly disappointing. We ran out of gas in april this year with three games to go in the premiership and could only draw 0-0 with Jolly Sailors which meant that we couldn't win the league, I was absolutely gutted but we got to europe and played in Amsterdam where we were awful."

For the most part he seems to have enjoyed it though: "There have been some great times, like our first ever win-it was january, it was freezing and snowing, we were losing one-nil to Gala who were top of the league, I made a really decent save and then we went up the other end and scored twice in the last two minutes, that was amazing and gave us confidence. My favourite game was the season where we ended up finishing third, we were unbeaten so far that season after eight games and hadn't conceded a goal up until that point. We went a goal down scored by an old rival, Lee Chapman of Jolly Sailors, we thought our luck had run out but Dean Polhill scored two great goals and I made a few good saves then Chapman got sent off...it was a brilliant night. Those are just a couple of the good memories that I will take with me."

Davis will need to take more than just memories back to Birmingham, if 'JD Lions' and 'Real JD' are going to have better campaign's this term he is going to have to be a solid performer between the sticks. Davis will play twice every sunday, once for division two outfit; 'Real JD' and once for division four side 'JD-Lions', respectively: "They are the same team, just in two different leagues, it's much better that way. Between the two teams we conceded 111 goals in 44 games last season, that's why Phil (Davis) is here." Richie Summerfield of the JDFC-franchise told furious-pigeon. The opening fixture's have pitted Real-JD against newly promoted 'That Team FC' champions of division three last season and in division four it's 'la-super-el-grand-classico' as JD-Lions face local, bitter rivals 'Back Inter Bryan FC'.

"I'm really excited, a new team, back in my home town, it really is a dream move for me. As you know I'm sad to have left Manchester but somtimes you just need a new challenge and come-what-november, we'll see if we've achieved."