Saints V Dagenham & Redbridge The Preview
Tuesday, 2nd Nov 2010 09:53

Saints get the chance to push into the play off spots tonight

Those Saints fans with long memories will be approaching tonights game with trepidation, playing the team with the worst away record in the division and a chance to push forward in the league often ends in tears for Saints and tonight Nigel Adkins has to show he has installed a ruthless streak into the side to go and kill off the opposition.

Slowly but surely Saints have put a little run together and sneaked up on the rails into the promotion chase, however a word of caution is that in that run three of the games have been at home and of the two away, the win on Saturday was slightly fortuitous and the only decent side we have met beat us with ease.

However on the plus side, seasons are changed in crucial moments and on Saturday the penalty swung the game and possibly the season, although we were only playing against 10 men, the confidence returned at that moment and we looked a different side mentally.

But Saints shouldnt rest on their laurels, Nigel Adkins has kept faith with certain players, and although one or two of them are starting to pull through a sticky period, others arent and changes do need to be made still to keep people on their toes and fresh, we have a big squad we need to use it.

A win for Saints should at the least push them into a play off spot and even into second place although thats unlikely, however we are now making every side look over their shoulder, as favourites for the title they have been waiting for us to hit form and now we are up there and pressing, Bournemouth for example have been crowing about their start to the season and how bad ours was, now we are only a point behind and could overtake them tonight.

All predictions will be for a Saints win, but we have to remain focussed, patient and take our chances when they come, what we have to eradicate is the lapses in concentration and individual errors that have been a feature of every game in the winning run worryingly not just from one or two players but several.

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ourkid1984 added 11:45 - Nov 2

Although I understand what this article is saying I can't help reading it and thinking that this is very negative. The way the article starts reminding us that we don't always perform at home against teams with poor away records and then continues to focus on being fortuitous in our games rather than clearly being the better side. Then the negativity continues by suggesting that the only decent team we have played was Huddersfeild when I beg to differ because I thought although not up to the standard of Huddersfield Oldham looked far better than last season and looked pretty decent. Also games like Notts County are not easy away from home, fans with a little bit of memory will remember that we would lose games like that and Oldham last season and the excuse would come up that we can't play against teams or grounds like that. We lost badly to Huddersfield away last season so there is no change there. The only difference is more of our fans were positive last season all you had to do is be at Notts county on saturday and notice the difference in mindset compared to last season, there were far more people moaning even before we went 1-0 down and even after we were in control and cruising to a win.

Even in the last paragraph the negativity is ripe as you mention lapses in concentration and individual errors. Am I mistaken or is football a game played by humans where even the most ellite players make mistakes regularly? I thought so! The difference is the team that normally does the best is the team that has the most quality to make up for the mistakes made and if we are winning and making plenty of notable mistakes surely this is a sign of a good team becuase god knows what we would do if we made far fewer mistakes.

Us as fans will make this challenge of getting promoted even harder if all we talk about is the negatives. I keep on saying this until I'm blue in the face, this is league 1 not the Premier league or Champions league, we are far from perfection (not that the Premier league or champions league is perfect and no mistakes are made) so why do people expect it?

eusebio added 12:18 - Nov 2 You're on the wrong site....doom and gloom is the speciality
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richardmdcooper added 16:13 - Nov 2 I agree - definitely a negative article which I don't understand given that other than Hudderesfield and the MK dons match a day after he toook after, the Nige's results have been excellent..Far from perfect but definitely on the right track..COYR
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patred added 17:03 - Nov 2 realistic in my opinion... if you know that things are wrong, and there patently is,there is no reason not to change a winning side. In fact these are just the games to introduce players in form, and rest those who are obviously struggling. As is the game on Saturday
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