If Saints can grind out one more away win this evening they will not only make themselves record breakers but may be just a few wins away from the Championship.

Victory at Rochdale’s Spotland Stadium would make it ten away league wins for the season, breaking the club’s post-war record set by a promotion winning team, Ted Bates’ side of 1965/66.

More importantly it would move them to a position of relative comfort when it comes to securing second place.

Saints have two games in hand over Huddersfield, whom they head by virtue of goal difference, and Peterborough, who are three points behind.

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The fact their two rivals drew 1-1 on Saturday did Saints’ chances no harm at all.

Though some believe a Peterborough win would have suited Saints better, due to the points difference between Posh and Huddersfield, that may not be the case.

A quick glance at the remaining fixtures suggests that Peterborough might yet end up being Saints’ closest rivals.

On paper you would certainly prefer their run-in to Huddersfield’s.

Peterborough’s final five matches see them play Plymouth at home, Leyton Orient away, Yeovil at home, Rochdale away and Dagenham & Redbridge at home.

Though we all know that no League One game is anything like a formality, you could make a strong case that, with a bit of momentum, Darren Ferguson’s side could yet collect maximum points from those games.

There are a couple of tricky ones in there but, if you harbour hopes of securing automatic promotion then, at crunch time, they are all games you should win.

If that were to happen then Peterborough would finish on 86 points. Their goal difference is currently inferior to Saints, to the tune of 13, but you couldn’t rely on it staying that way because they have so many goals in their team.

If Posh were to complete that clean sweep between now and the end of the campaign then, ahead of this evening’s game, it means Saints need four wins and one draw from their remaining seven games to guarantee finishing above them – meaning they could yet afford to lose at least two games.

Should Peterborough put together a storming run, then it suddenly might seem just as well they didn’t quite manage to hold on to beat Huddersfield.

A glance at the table suggested that Huddersfield’s equaliser was a blip for Saints.

But a look at the Terriers’ run-in compared to Posh’s suggests otherwise.

Of course, you have to take into account that Lee Clark’s side have been in terrific form in 2011, even if they have drawn some games they probably should have won.

Huddersfield’s run-in reads Charlton away, MK Dons at home, Dagenham & Redbridge at home, Brighton away and Brentford at home.

That looks a whole lot harder.

Despite poor recent form Charlton have the quality to give any team a game, MK Dons are in the play-off pack and no pushovers while Brighton are obviously the league’s star performers.

Trying to work out how many points Huddersfield will get is a relatively futile task, but if you were forced to guess then you would maybe expect ten or 11.

With Saints again having a superior goal difference it would leave Saints needing possibly only three wins and a draw or maybe four wins to be pretty confident of finishing above them – not bad with six games remaining.

Any way you look at it a win tonight would leave them right on the cusp of promotion.