After the great win at Loftus Road and the manner in which it was achieved, Saints now have a great opportunity to build on this foundation.

Whilst no one should get too carried away in beating what is sadly for QPR fans the worst and most heartless team in the Premier League, there have still been a lot of positives in both the draw against Swansea and this win than not having been present a few weeks ago can now be looked at with hope.

I said in a couple of articles last week that perhaps Saints could consider themselves unlucky in that not only did they have to play some of the top clubs in the early games, but we also travelled to several mid table sides who were in fine runs of form at the time, that cant be helped and sometimes the fixture list can both aid and hinder a team, whilst it cant be denied that overall a league table wont lie and you finish in the area that reflects your level, at the bottom where the difference between relegation and safety can literally be down to a last minute goal against you in a game back in December (think Boro at home in 2004/05) the fixture list can sometimes make the difference between going down and staying up.

Now however its time for Saints to take advantage of the fixture list themselves, in the next month in the run in to Xmas we have five games, yes the Liverpool away game will be tough but we also have four home games all of them against sides in the bottom half of the table and all winnable.

With our new found confidence we now need to take the bull by the horns and take the initiative in the fight against relegation, win three out of the four at SMS and we go into the Xmas period full of hope.

We now are playing with both shape and spirit and we have the opportunity to keep that going, make no bones are improvement is also down to the quality and form of the opposition dropping, we havent become a good team overnight, however we have shown not just the rest of the division, but perhaps ourselves also that we are good enough to drag ourselves out of the bottom three and now is the time to show it.       

bstokesaint added 12:27 - Nov 19 I think we're an experienced central defender and goalkeeper away from a mid table side. There's no doubt we need cover and someone pushing for a first team place to keep Yoshi and Fonte on their toes. I haven't seen one inspired performance from any keeper this season and that is a worry. There must be another Antti Niemi out there we could pick up in January. Otherwise we need to hope Boruc can rediscover some old form or Kelvin can defend his near post. Gazzaniga is out of his depth and the nature of the goals he is conceding and the mistakes he is making are not going to inspire confidence for anyone.

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zonehead added 19:32 - Nov 19 One of the interesting things to emerge from about Nigels "chat" with Nicola is that Guly is no where to be seen, Hurrah	0 forum posts 55 news comments 1 match reports 0 blogs 0 polls

simmo400 added 19:48 - Nov 19 We have 3 games in less than a week. I feel 4 points is realistic from these 3 games. Some clean sheets would prove we are improving. Yes was a good win Saturday but lets admit there were poor. Lets see us keep it going in the next 3 to prove its not a one off.	0 forum posts 161 news comments 6 match reports 0 blogs 0 polls

UTS added 20:26 - Nov 19 Get yourselves in the forum.	5281 forum posts 14 news comments 0 match reports 0 blogs 0 polls

rjh added 19:35 - Nov 20 Good article Nick. Playing the best eleven now I reckon. Next four home games will call our season.	0 forum posts 71 news comments 1 match reports 0 blogs 0 polls

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