HARRY REDKNAPP believes if Saints can't beat Norwich today they don't deserve to stay up.
The Saints boss was in forthright mood ahead of the crunch clash with the Canaries which Saints must realistically win to keep alive their hopes of Premiership survival.
Norwich come to St Mary's without a single away win all season but on the back of ten points out of a possible 12 and having beaten Saints at Carrow Road already this season - ironically their first home win of the campaign.
It's make-or-break time for Saints with 27 years of continued top-flight membership under serious threat.
And Redknapp knows nothing other than a win - which would only be Saints' 11th in 57 league matches - will do.
He said: "We've got nothing to be scared of. If we're scared of Norwich what chance have we got?
"We're playing Norwich at home and they've not won away all season.
"We've got to beat them.
"If we can't beat them then we shouldn't be in the league, we're in the wrong division, we're playing out of our depth. We've got to win. We should beat them."
Saints are sweating on the fitness of strikers Peter Crouch and Henri Camara who are both struggling with hamstring problems while Norwich are waiting to see whether Darren Huckerby will recover from his ankle knock.
Huckerby caused Saints all kinds of problems in the 2-1 defeat at Carrow Road in November but Redknapp is not concerning himself with Norwich's threat.
He said: "We had problems that day with Huckerby but you've got to get tight, make sure you're aggressive and you do our job.
"I mean, no disrespect to Huckerby, but he's not Henry is he?
"We played against Arsenal the other week and Tottenham with Defoe and Kanoute and coped with them. So we won't lay awake at night worrying about what they can do, we need to worry about ourselves and make sure we win."
If Saints won today, Redknapp knows it would give them a springboard to safety with a trip to Palace next week and Manchester United visiting St Mary's on the last day, Sunday May 15.
He added: "It can all change. We can all be looking at the league table tonight in a completely different situation. Today is a massive game. It's a deciding game."
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