Saints take on Norwich City at St Mary's this afternoon, but their biggest opponent is going to be their own fans if social media comments are a measure.

Is Saints season a disaster ? some would have you believe that it is, however a 2-0 win against Norwich will put us up to 9th and only two points off the top 4 as well as being above the likes of Chelsea & Spurs.

Of course that is a fine line and we need to beat Norwich, but we are a good side playing badly not a bad side playing to par.

We are also a side with injury problems and that has meant that we have struggled to get any sort of rhythm going.

Some seem to ave forgot that last season had similar patches and that we overcame those and marched on to our best season in three decades.

So Saints fans need to be behind their team from the off this afternoon, we need the solidarity that we have always had over the years in the face of adversity, close ranks and stick together and triumph.

We surely will triumph if we do this, some need a reality check and ealise that football is about a season not a bad patch or two, perhaps it wont hit the heights of last season, perhaps it will but it wont if we as supporters are part of the problem and not the solution.

Saints can go out ths afternoon and get their first three points of the season and things will seem a lot better, Ronald Koeman has the experience to get us through this.

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halftimeorange added 10:33 - Aug 30 Everything you say is true however, the expectations for this season were at an all-time high and the premature Europa Cup exit has denied many of us the opportunity, excitement and adventure in seeing Saints play some top clubs abroad perhaps (for some of us) the only chance in a lifetime. I have watched a lot of football in the last two weeks and I have yet to see a Premier League side performing worse than Saints. The majority of us will be rooting for our team this afternoon but you can't expect us to go feeling overwhelmingly confident and the support will naturally be muted. Furthermore, with the continued media speculation about unrest in the camp and the board appearing to be sitting on its hands rather than putting them in their pockets will undoubtedly elicit some audible groans and moans unless we are seriously on top of the Canaries. But we all remember that we were recently a League 1 club so it cannot be denied that the same board, though often defamed in a crisis, has managed us to a generally respected and envied business throughout the country.

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IWOZTHERE added 10:38 - Aug 30 Fine words and I hope you're right. Trouble is, however counterproductive it may be to show dissent on the day, it's bound to surface when thing's are going badly cos this is the best platform we have. It's manifested in the direction of the team when it's actually aimed towards the Director's Box. Interestingly, a high proportion of the vociferous 'happy clappers' are actually the one's who usually 'turn' on the team and individual players first! We need the points , but I for one would sacrifice them if another poor performance coupled with a bad tempered dissenting crowd resulted in the board changing direction and secured our position in the longer term.

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TissLeGod added 11:35 - Aug 30 Positive words but a bit of fantasy.You love your stats so based on current form where do you get 2-0? We let in average of 2 goals and I haven't heard of any strengthening more likely to be that score to the visitors. RK has to play the same way we did last year and hope the personnel start to develop into the system or get players that can. That's what VG at Utd does. Playing 5 at the back you might as well surrender. Norwich smell blood and will fancy 3 points and why not.

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rjh added 11:50 - Aug 30 I think we will struggle again this afternoon. We are totally disjointed at the moment and cannot defend. Toby and Morgan and Clyne were far more influential and much more of a loss than Adam, Luke and Rickie. Lighting just does not strike twice I am afraid. The three outs this summer were once in a decade players and their departure is so telling. A long hard season ahead I am afraid. 15th or 16th I would take now. Sorry to be so gloomy in my prediction.

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Jesus_02 added 12:03 - Aug 30 EKG. I agree , we will struggle but I think we will get a dodgy win today. Fingers crossed. If we get a couple in we could be comfortable mid table
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