George Burley is calling for one big push from his Saints players this week to pick up six points and keep their play-off hopes alive.

Defeat at Stoke at the weekend made it two losses away from home in six nightmare days for Burley's faltering side.

It now leaves Saints dangerously close to falling out of the play-off picture as the season reaches the final nine games.

Saints host Cardiff at St Mary's tomorrow and Colchester on Friday night and Burley knows nothing less than six points against two other top ten teams is required to keep Saints in the hunt.

He said: "There are nine games left, two home games now and they're two games we've got to try and pick up maximum points to finish in the top six.

"It's all to play for.

"This was a big blow as far as we didn't do enough.

"But we know we can do better and we've got to roll our sleeves up and do that tomorrow "We've got to take the game to them.

We've got to be positive - we've got a good side but we need an end product which wasn't there.

"We've still got it in our own hands and it's still all to play for.

"But we've got to knuckle down and put some wins together".

Full interview: See today's Daily Echo.