I wish I had some of your confidence. I'd agree its in our own hands, whether termed as "ours to lose" or "ours to win".
Saints arecertainly capable of doing it, but I'm concerned by our tendency to falter too often. I'm unable to pinpoint it but we seem to lack a mental toughness at times,and a cutting edge to score the all important first goal. Fitzhugh made a point in a post a week or so ago,that we lacked "conviction", that is probably a reasonable summing up as any, whether that is due to self-belief, burden of expectation or motivation,I don't know.
With our squad we should be able to do it,but unlike Brighton we have not been able to relentlessly come away with 3 points time after time.
Interesting point about the games in hand as we are obviously seeing them as our trump cards. However when we have had the games where we might have stolen an advantage on our rivals we have not. ie Walsall away,Charlton away. One point from that potential six does not inspire me to believe we are quite as good as many on here and Adkins wish to believe.