A read through the headlines this week reveals that almost to man the press are writing off Saints at The Emirates, hopefully Arsenal will have the same complacency.
All the talk in the press is about how Arsenal will have new signings making debuts, star names returning and the fact that as long as they turn up they will be guaranteed all three points against Saints.
Hopefully if the media are that complacent, then perhaps the Gunners will be of the same mindset and Saints can go there and mount a shock.
Indeed in both of our encounters last season Saints were decidedly the underdogs in both fixtures, going into the game at St Mary's on Boxing Day on the back of 4 defeats in the previous 5 Premier League games with the only point being against rock bottom Aston Villa, throw in that 6-1 cup defeat to Liverpool and there was only gojng to be one winner, wasn't there !
The trip to the Emirates was a little better in that Saints had rallied to three straight wins before, but no one was putting money on Saints and we were good money for a draw albeit with a bit of a rearguard action.
This will be a tough game that is for sure, but those that write off Saints do so at their peril and perhaps are reading too much into headlines rather than statistics.
In the opening three games yes Saints have drawn two and lost one, but in the two draws have dominated the game and just failed to take their chances and at Manchester United deserved a bit more than they got with a dodgy penalty being a harsh decision that settled United's nerves.
But in that game and in the other two Saints have shown enough to suggest that when they adapt to the new system they can be a force to be reckoned with, once again we are tight at the back, two of the four goals conceded came from penalties, we keep the ball well and win it back when not in possession.
Our number of shots has been the second highest in the Premier League.
In fact our only problem has been our failure to score goals, that is not a question of not having the players to do so, it has been a question of poor finishing and good goalkeeping.
But all of our attacking options are proven in the Premier League, Austin, Rodriguez and Long have the ability to hit 45 goals between them and there are the likes of Tadic and Redmond who are good for half a dozen or so each, not to mention new signing Boufal when fit.
So although many Saints supporters are going along the populist opinion route that the new system is a failure, the stats say otherwise, but the one stat we fall down on is the one that matters and that is when you are holding a Banjo and you are stood in front (or behind) a cow's arse you have to hit it, that has been the problem, two better pieces of finishing and the Premier League table would look much better.
So the critics writing Saints off do so at their peril, when we trooped off the Emirates pitch last season with a hard earned point there was only one irrefutable fact and that was we were another step nearer ending our near 30 year spell without a win at Arsenal in the League.
We will now be a little more used to the system, the return of the likes of Ryan Bertrand will help that, but all we really need is a bit more finishing power.
I am not going to deny that Saturday's game will be tough, but Arsenal have shown in ther opening games they are not firing on all cylinders either and are not infallible.
Their crowd is uneasy and that could work in our favour.
It would be a brave man who would predict a Saints win, but it would be a shortsighted one who predicted a heavy defeat based just on two points from the opening three games.