Make no bones about it, this evening's trip to Leicester City will end with either the clubs above us nervously looking over their shoulders or breathing a sigh of relief.
If Saints lose or draw at Leicester City tonight it will make it very difficult for them to avoid relegation, however if they win then they will be breathing down the necks of one or two clubs above us who although have a good advantage at present would suddenly see us right behind them with an easier run in.
But if Saints do go down it won't be tonight that will have relegated them, but a series of poor performances over the season that have verged from pathetic at times( although far fewer than you would think) to mainly OK with crucial errors costing us, to plain bad luck as we had at Watford when we were cheated out of three points in the final minute.
But the past games don't matter now and it is all about what we do in the final five, we need to find the display that we put out in the first half against Chelsea and add to that the luck we haven't had all season and it is possible we could survive.
Certainly in most seasons there is an unlikely escapee from relegation and we just have to make sure that it is us.
Certainly Saints travel to Leicester with many of their supporters already writing them off, but a hard core of support will be there and get right behind them, if we can win then perhaps that will provide the momentum to get the rest of the fan base behind the team and start what now looks an unlikely comeback.
So by 10pm this evening we will know whether we have a chance of staying up or if we are virtually dead and buried.