The results went against Saints on Saturday and with the draw at Loftus Road Saints travel to the midlands bottom of the league.

With surprise wins for Wigan and Norwich and a draw between QPR & Reading it meant that not only are Saints now five points adrift from safety effectively six if you take our appalling goal difference into account, but we drop to the bottom of the division.

In fairness the draw in West London on Sunday was probably the best result for us, in a relegation fight any dropped points by your rivals is welcome, but it didnt make our position look any better although technically it is.

But this weekend has really started to open up a gap between the bottom three and the rest of the league and that is worrying, two wins in a row has catapulted Norwich up to mid table and given them breathing space, its also dragged the likes of Sunderland and Stoke to the fringes of the relegation battle, but we have to ask ourselves do those teams have the quality to pull clear, the answer is yes, that means we have to start putting points on the table and fast, DOvember is now upon us and this weekend has shown that we have to DO.

The time for excuses is over, like Wigan and Norwich we have to show we can win games that we are not expected to, indeed with our present form thats just about every game we are going to play.

Over the past couple of months many have refused to read the writing on the wall, defeats have been greeted with an attitude that there is plenty of time to pull out, that is true there is plenty of time, but we have to start winning games now, as fact is there is also the same amount of time for our rivals and they are are picking up points.

Like the Canaries two good wins in a row will make our position look a lot better, but they built those wins on the back of clean sheets and we dont look capable of that at present.

DOvember offers plenty of opportunity to not only get points but pull ourselves clear of the bottom three, but lets be perfectly clear there is no room for failure, if we get somewhere in the region of ten points from these five games then with a bit of luck we will probably be out of the bottom four, but only just, that shows how our task is mounting up on us, anything less than that and we could find ourselves well adrift     

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simmo400 added 09:41 - Nov 5 Dosent matter about other teams. Its down to us to keep clean sheets. If we cant then were finished full stop. We need 12 points every nine games from now on who ever we play. FACT.
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SaintNick added 10:01 - Nov 5 It does matter about other teams, on Saturday both Wigan and Norwich won that was not good results for us, we need the others to slip up
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sidsaint added 10:04 - Nov 5 Agree, the season is already set up, we are in our own little league at the bottom. The others have more established premier players to help them and we no longer have Le Tiss to rescue us. We have to buy wisely in January. November is crucial. Good to see Ramirez back early, he will help.
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SaintNick added 10:22 - Nov 5 Not sure how much Ramirez will be able to help tonight after six weeks out
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saintsoldboy added 14:44 - Nov 5 Never mind getting the winning mentality (NA's favourite statement) we need to stop losing. A point a game would be enough this season I suspect. How......no idea!
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