Saints Still Well Placed After The Weekend Fixtures
Saints may have suffered their second defeat in a row, but they are still handily placed to move up the table with a win next weekend.
Saints have dropped to tenth place after the completion of the weekend's fixtures, however 10th on 20 points is still a good place to be in at this stage of the season and now Saints need to put the two straight defeats behind them and move up a place or two.
A home win against Aston Villa next week could do just that, with the right results, Saints could go as high as 6th in the table and find themselves within touching distance of the top five.
This has been a season of ups and downs, but that seems to always be the way for Saints, but whatever the issues to be 10th and in this position, is still a good launching pad for the second half of the season.
If we can get to this position whilst not firing on all cylinders then when we do put a run of wins together we can move up the table and challenge for Europe again, some Saints fans are disappointed as last season started so well, but progress is not always smooth and you have to work at it, that's the case this term and f we do there is still no reason why we should not emulate last season and even better.
Our first aim is to consolidate our position as a top eight side, that is the aim for this season, outside of Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool Spurs and the two Manchester clubs there are few clubs who have achieved three top eight finishes in a row and if we can do that, that will be some achievment.
But we Saints supporters have to stay behind the club and team and not panic every time we suffer a defeat.
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