Grzegorz Rasiak is celebrating a record-breaking season.

The Polish striker grabbed both of Saints' goals in their 2-0 FA Cup third round victory at Torquay to take his tally for the season to 18.

That's an incredible strike rate with well over a third of the season still to play.

And it beats his previous best effort of 17 in his first season in England under George Burley at Derby in 2004/06.

A delighted Rasiak said: "It's the best season in my career.

"At Derby I scored 17 goals and that was my best and I had scored 16 or 17 for my club in Poland before that.

"So now I have scored more goals than in any season in my career.

"I have scored lots of goals and there is still 20 games left and maybe more if we keep going in the FA Cup.

"It can be more and I would like to score more goals for the club, the fans and my family.

"I want to dedicate my two goals to my family and because it's my birthday next week!"

Rasiak, who celebrates his 28th birthday this coming Friday, also revealed that he set himself a target of 20 goals for the 2006/07 season.

He is now within touching distance of that total and all the talk around the club is whether he can reach the 30 mark by the end of the campaign.

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