Welcome to my new blog.

Hopefully on something resembling a daily basis I will be jotting down my thoughts on Saints and the football world in general.

But I could be spouting off on any sport – in my journalistic career I’ve covered pigeon racing and croquet and it wouldn’t be fair not to share my knowledge of those ‘sports’ with the legion of online Daily Echo readers.

If you wanted to know what an Aunt Emma is, stay online ….

For the moment, though, it’s Saints that has to occupy our thoughts.

Tuesday’s results were probably worse than even the most pessimistic fan could have anticipated, and it’s left the club technically six points off safety.

They need to beat Preston and Cardiff at home this month to even claw themselves back in with the pack of clubs above them.

Easier said than done when you look at the league table and see both those clubs in the play-offs and Saints with only one home league success all season.

Hope, so we’re always told, has got to spring eternal, even if it’s getting harder by the day to mount a realistic argument as to why Saints will avoid the drop into the third division.

But I would love to hear from anyone with a realistic argument, though, I really would.

How can Saints get out of this with the personnel they have got?

How can they prevent the rest of this depressing season petering out into a slow, painful, humiliating relegation?

Where is the hope springing eternal at St Mary’s?