Over the last month Saints have been going downhill faster than an Olympic skier and whilst some of that can be put down to injury the real problem has been gifting the opposition goals.
Complacency seems to have set in with Saints over the past month, not only have they started conceding goals but they have been conceding sloppy goals and far too many of them, yes every goal conceded will have an element of error about it other wise it could be said we would not have conceded it in the first place.
But the goals we are letting in are different they are sloppy and they are the result of poor play and lapses in concentration and if we wish to take that "Step Forward" that we harped on about earlier in the season then we need to keep cutting them out of the game.
The crowd seem to love to blame individuals and this helps no one, some of the goals have just been sloppy as in Spurs opener on Sunday and some have been individual error ie Newcastle's goal, but if we are going to get through this bad patch, the fact is we are going to have to do it with the players we have got at least for the next 3 games, so blaming individuals is helping no one, what did those who ironically cheered every time Paulo Gazzaniga caught the ball on Sunday think they were achieving, we only lost the game 3-2 there was every chance we could get back in it or do some people prefer to see us beaten so they can rant about Gazzaniga, Fox, Guly or whoever is not flavour of the month.
I see so many people speaking as if the world is over because certain players are out injured, they conveniently forget that those who came in for them this year actually won games for us last season, so all this "Im not going to watch whilst Fox/Hooiveld/Gazza/Guly are playing because we are beaten before we are started" is nothing more than sensationalism.
So for Saints this Christmas has not got to be one of goodwill and giving, we have to tighten up and be more Bah Humbug with Cardiff & Everton, at the moment this is just a drama, we have been found out a little and we now need to do something about it, hopefully Mauricio Pochettino will do what most good managers do, get back to basics and not confuse the matter by switching players here and there, if he keeps things simple then it wont become a crisis.
At this moment in time we are still far ahead of what we would have hoped for at the start of the season, its easy to support a team when they are winning, now the going has got tough its time for the supporters to do their bit as well.