Saints to still be in the play offs by the end of February ?

Cardiff - Home
Birmingham - Away
Burnley - Home
West Ham - Away
Derby - Home
Watford - Away

Tough old month!

 

if we play how we did tonight then no way, but we have key players coming back and i am hoping we can pick up a bit of momentum again

 

Win, Lose, Win, Lose, Win, Win

I can see that being the story of Feb.

 

The transfer window will make or break our season.

 

Im glad you see us beating Watford again. That's the last match I'm going to make it over for this season it seems.

 

i agree..

where we are come march will be down to our activity in the next 7/8 days !

 

Cardiff - (Lose)
Birmingham - (Lose)
Burnley - (Win)
West Ham - (lose)
Derby - (Draw)
Watford - (Win)

My prediction

 

Saints will not be in the playoffs at the end of February if they don't get their finger out. They will be just off the middle of the league. Mind you just a thought.......would you really want Saints to be promoted on the form they are presently in. It would be one continuous relegation battle. Just as at the moment our form is so bad if we had been lower down the league we would be looking over our shoulder. I think it is going to be more than a magic wand that our Nigel needs

 

Think the play offs are probably where we will end up

 

I can see us doing quite well out of these, purely because we've been awful when we need to win, and are playing indifferent teams.
Apart from Cardiff, which - being a six pointer - we will undoubtedly lose; the others, when the pressure is off, and WHAM are nine points clear and we are third or fourth, we will start winning. We'll draw against West Ham - though it will include such tropes as West Ham only scoring one goal, and that being a penalty scored by Mark Noble.

I am a pessimist, and as a lifelong Saints fan I reserve that right, but I believe all clubs who have beaten us once in the league this season will beat us again.
These are not predictions, just patterns that are starting to emerge, and I hope I'm proven wrong. Teams who have worked out how to beat us will stick to that formula; and we are not flexible enough it seems, nor do we have enough depth, to adjust to the style teams who beat us play against us.

I hope I'm completely wrong, though, and as a poster said earlier, form changes week on week. I'm not sure we can play at home with our former confidence now, though, so some doubt must creep in. Hopefully our away form will pick up, though. I don't like Birmingham's form at all.

Tonight reminded me just how class a striker Lambert is. How much work he does up there on his own to create the chances he and others score. He is a talisman, and it is not really surprising our team can't play properly without him.