WILL RIVALS DROP POINTS?

Saints have a free night but Huddersfield, Peterborough (and Leyton Orient) have trickyish away fixtures.......hoping this will give us extra games in hand and not allow them to widen the points gap!

Huddersfield away to Brentford
Peterborough away to Sheffield Wednesday
Leyton Orient away to Hartlepool

Top 8 at the moment.....

P GD PTS
1 Brighton 34 38 71
2 Huddersfield 36 18 63

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3 Peterborough 35 22 62
4 Southampton 34 32 61
5 Bournemouth 36 22 61
6 MK Dons 37 6 61

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7 Leyton Orient 33 14 53
8 Hartlepool 36 -10 50

Not at all good, 3 damned away wins!

Top 7 now.....

P GD PTS
1 Brighton 34 38 71
2 Huddersfield 37 19 66

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3 Peterborough 36 25 65
4 Southampton 34 32 61
5 Bournemouth 36 22 61
6 MK Dons 37 6 61

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7 Leyton Orient 34 15 56

Saturday....

OLDHAM v BRIGHTON
HUDDERSFIELD v SWINDON
CARLISLE v BOURNEMOUTH
BRENTFORD v LEYTON ORIENT

MK Dons and Peterborough meet on Monday.

Brighton winning 1-0, Huddersfield 0-0, Bournemouth and Leyton Orient a goal down........hope they stay that way.

Shame about Brighton win, think they are home and dry but other results were good news for us

MK Dons 1 Peterborough 0

Draws for Peterborough and MK Dons tonight.

Draw for Bournemouth and loss for Orient good news, done and dusted for Brighton now

Massive defeat for Orient, 1-5 to Yeovil!!

Still a very remote chance of catching Brighton, we are 15 points adrift with a game in hand. If we win the game in hand and win our match at Brighton that leaves us 9 points to make up in 8 matches. Extremely unlikely but could happen if Brighton start dropping points.

For now, let's hope Huddersfield slip up at home to Notts County tomorrow.

3 points for Huddersfield unfortunately.

Knowing Saints, it won't be easy as it never is, but all we need to do is keep winning and we should get second. We've got games in hand (although I would rather have the points already in the bag) and if we don't throw away stupid points we will be ok. I am more confident than I was a few weeks ago, but I won't be if we have to go through the playoff.

Brighton home and dry tonight after their win tonight and Rochdale showed will fight for last play off spot with win, not looking forward to our away game there which is one of the games in hand. That said providing Lallana and Chamberlain are fit for run in think we can win enough games, addition of Stephens I think might be crucial as if we get a lead type of player we can bring on to strengthen the midfield, Forte and Nguessan are okay if we are chasing a game.

All Saints fans will know they wont make it easy for us so guess it will be a case of keep taking the pills and check the heart rate for what no doubt will be a bumpy ride but with some of the clubs playing each other will be twists and turns

Rochdale-Brighton on Saturday could be interesting?

Any chance of a draw between Peterborough and Bournemouth tomorrow?

Would be a good result, if not then a bournemouth win.,

SaintMike wrote:Any chance of a draw between Peterborough and Bournemouth tomorrow?

oops, Friday not yesterday!!

Good lads Bournemouth!! 3-1 to Peterboro with 20 minutes left and ended 3-3!!!

Must now surely be between Saints, Huddersfield and Peterborough for the 2nd automatic spot. After wins for Saints and Peterborough tonight (Huddersfield not playing) its now........

BRIGHTON 84
HUDDERSFIELD 73
SAINTS 71
PETERBOROUGH 70

A 5 point gap to 5th place.

Saints have 2 games in hand on both Huddersfield and Peterborough (but the games in hand are both away).