Who do you want to go down from League One
Saints play a big part on the final day of the season in the relegation battle, as it stands Walsall sit on 48 points with a goal difference of - 17, whilst Dagenham sit only one point behind on 47 with a difference of -13, in terms of goals scored which might well come into play, Walsall have notched 55, whilst the Daggers have hit 52, it couldnt have been much closer.
The simple mathematics are that Walsall need to win and they stay up, a draw or a defeat could, but not neccesarily, put them down.
The nightmare for Walsall is a heavy defeat at St Mary's, this would destroy their goal difference and leave them susceptible to Dagenham jumping above them if they can snatch a draw at Peterborough.
On the face of it both games are fairly similar, a top four side at home to each relegation battler, but for Peterborough this is not their last game of the season and they have far more other things to worry about, with a play off semi against MK Dons they will have two worries, injuries and suspensions and it could be that they might prefer to rest certain players rather than risk them being injured or even sent off, whilst Saints not only dont have to worry about that, but aare in themselves aiming not only to preserve their unbeaten league home record in 2011, but hit the 90 point mark and close the gap on Brighton, Saints not only have it all to play for, but if Saints do decide to rest a player the standard of those coming in is still way above Peterborough's.
So at first view, although Walsall have the point advantage, you would put more money on Dagenham beating Peterborough than Walsall winning at St Mary's.
It is going to go down to the wire, I can see Daggers nicking a point at Posh and Walsall losing at SMS, this would send Walsall down given their goal differencee, playing at any other team in League one you wouldnt put too much on it, but remember this is Peterborough who have conceded more goals at home (40) than any other team and more shockingly more than Dagenham have conceded away from home themselves, so bearing in mind those records, could Dagenham stay up on the closest of margins a 4-4 draw sneaking them home, it would be well worth a punt, what the odds would be I wouldnt know, but a double of Saints to win 4-0 and Dagenham to get that 4-4 draw would surely be very very good.
Who would Saints fans want to stay up, by default it would be Dagenham purely because we would want to beat Walsall as we would wantto beat any other visiting team, but those who visited Dagenham in January might just harbour a soft spot for Daggers keeper Tony Roberts, still playing at 41 and still possessing a sense of humour as he showed the visiting supporters in the second half.