Football: Back of the net: Fat Lady still in wings at Albion; THE WEBSITE VIEW.

Byline: CHRIS SAUNDERS www.Baggies.com

I HAVE lost count of the number of times Albion fans have mentioned the notorious Fat Lady over the last couple of months - she's been donning her costume, spraying her larynx, taking the stage, clearing her throat and so on.

But she's not started singing just yet!

We remain where we've been sitting for a while now - four points from safety - and there are still 11 games to go, or 33 points to play for. It's true that four of those games are against the sides currently making up the top four in the Premiership, but we've now played all of the games against our fellow relegation candidates, and the remaining seven are probably going to be of little consequence to our opponents. That gives us a big advantage.

As the season draws to an endplayers start thinking more about their summer holidays and finding new contracts and perhaps worry less about giving their all, risking bookings and injuries, in games that no longer matter a great deal.

While our fellow strugglers are still fighting each other for those precious few points, is there a chance that we can get enough from our remaining games to surviveApart from the Southampton game, our style of play has shown a massive improvement since Bryan Robson and Nigel Pearson took chargeand it's been widely acknowledged that we should have picked up far more points in that time than we did. Tuesday was always likely to be an edgy affair, with both teams under pressure to get a result in what should logically have been one of their easiest games of the season. My only worry was that too many defeats, despite the improvement in play, would cause the team - and the supporters - to give up their hopes of survival far too early and consign themselves to their own fate.

That Fat Lady needs to wait a little longer yet, because this season is far from over