 Sunday, 3rd Apr 2011 23:14 A good weekend for Saints It was a good weekend for Saints as the race for second starts to sort out the wheat from the chafe, it could have been better but sadly Tranmere couldnt repeat their win over Saints against Huddersfield, but Peterborough who looked strong a week or so ago now look to be heading for the last chance saloon as they face two away trips to Dagenham on Tuesday and then Huddersfield next Saturday. But for Saints its about doing what they have to do and three points against MK Dons is al, that could be asked and f Saints can do that again on Tuesday against Charlton then the pendulum will swing greatly in our favour as we will pull within two points of Huddersfield with two games in hand and that will put pressure on the Terriers to beat Posh. But for Saints its all about holding steady with the nerves and remaining focussed, promotion is a war of attrition and as i have been saying for the last month or so, we have to accept that Huddersfield and indeed Peterborough will win more than they lose, but by winning our games we put them under stress and we dont want to let them off the hook by dropping points ourselves. I still maintain that 85 points is going to be the target we need to focus on and an average of two points per game needs to be maintained, in fact after our win against MK Dons, if we hit our target we finish on 86 points that should be more than enough. One good piece of news is that we have basically been hitting that target since the sixth game of the season, if you take out the five games and the four points that we got from them before Nigel Adkins arrived we have got 64 points from 32 games, we just need to maintain this average, also good is the fact that we have made up most of that deficit since the new year, yes at times our league form has been patchy in that we havent put more than four wins on the bounce togather, but to get promotion we dont have to do anything we havent been doing since that sixth game. Of course Huddersfield will feel the same way, but they started the season well and they are nowehere near that two points per game average, but it is going to be tight, after all if we maintain the target over the three games in hand then we would be one point ahead of the Terriers, not a massive gap, so of course we need to keep puttting the scores on the doors. The key is winning the home games, win all of them and we will be nearly home and dry, fact is we arent going to completely make up the games in hand till the Monday prior to the last game of the season when we travel to Plymouth, but we can get another 12 points from our home matches, get them and thats up to eighty points and the finishing line is in site. Charlton is a must win game, win it and we can head on the road with confidence, Brighton away aside there is no one to fear on our travels and even our trip to the Seagulls should find them already Champions before we arrive and therefore perhaps not as committed as we will be. Heaven is whenever we get the points that secure us automatic promotion, until then we just need to be tight, focussed and have the confidence that we are the best squad in the division and that we are where we are due to individual errors, without them we would already be on the verge of promotion ourselves like Brighton
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