Davey Keeping Quiet On Nardiello.................

<p class="big">Simon Davey insists there will not be any letting up from his Barnsley side, while Crystal Palace manager Peter Taylor was unhappy with the assistant referee. </p>

The Tykes have moved five points ahead of third from bottom Leeds United following a crucial 2-0 success over The Eagles at Oakwell. </p>

Davey believes it would be a mistake to believe Barnsley are safe, despite their superb run of three consecutive victories. </p>

&quot;There'll be no resting on our laurels. There's too much at stake for us to do anything like that,&quot; explained Davey. </p>

&quot;We have won three games in a row, which is brilliant, but it'll only be worth something if we stay up. I won't say we are safe until it's mathematically certain.&quot; </p>

Davey, meanwhile, is remaining quiet on whether Daniel Nardiello, who scored twice on Saturday, will be at Barnsley next season. </p>

&quot;He's doing well at the moment, but no decision has been made,&quot; he concluded. </p>

Davey's counter-part Taylor felt Palace may have had a chance to get back into the contest had Nardiello not had a second chance to re-take his penalty. </p>

The linesman adjudged Julian Speroni to have moved the spot-kick was taken and allowed a re-take after Nardiello's first effort was saved by the keeper. </p>

&quot;Whether he moved too soon or not I don't know, but what I do know is there are hundreds of instances like that and nothing is done about it,&quot; he said. </p>

&quot;This guy has ordered a retake when that never really happens. There's no consistency. On the whole I thought the referee was superb, but his assistant was not. </p>

&quot;If the score had stayed at 1-0 then we had a chance, because we were creating chances, but 2-0 killed us.&quot;</p>

 

Should give him a contract pronto

 

bloody hell, how many pens have we saved...only for them to be retaken nt

 

Talking to a wednesday season ticket holder today and he said everyone at there game yesterday all thought that nardiello to them is a done deal. Said everyone was talking about it, the bar stewards.

 

doubt it. nt

 

why?

any solid reason-or just wishful thinking

 

More solid reasoning than any rumour

Nardiello if he is off is unlikely to have sorted out where he is off to.

His agent will more than likely to touting him around until mid summer for a better deal.

I'm not convinced he's done enough yet to get a move to another championship club better than us where he could get a start.

Every time barnsley have a striker who's doing the business some rumour starts on here that he's off to Wednesday.

 

and apparantly

He has said he'll stay if we offer a decent deal.

Not convinced missen whether it be worth the risk.

 

We'll see. Having forced his way back into the team and started doing the business playing up front with Steve, I think he's quite likely to stay if we offer him what his agent is asking. If not, or if he's just started playing in order to put himself in the shop window, then we're better off shut. At the end of the day, he's often flatterred to deceive. There's as much chance of him spending most of next season on the treatment table or wandering round looking uninterested as there is him continuing his current form. Would still rather see him stay of course, but it won't be the disaster some people are making it out to be should he leave.

 

A rolling monthly contract would seem to be the answer. nt

 

Yeah, he'd be desperate to sign that. nt

 

He seems to perform best with a month or two left on his contract. nt

 

Another, less cynical, way to look at it is that he has finally found a manager who he is responding to and has realised that he is at the age where unless he knuckles down he is gonna get to the end of his career and wonder why he played so little football. I am sure that playing up front with Stan the workaholic is rubbing off on him. He may have seen something to aspire to.

 

I think the turning point for him was the crowds reaction to him after New Year, he started to take some stick from the crowd for his indifferent approach,coupled with Stan running his socks off for 90 minutes every match,the penny obviously dropped.Paul Reids insight into what some of the other players thought about his attitude was interesting.He has obviously lost weight,is fitter,work rate has gone up 500%.