WE will be looking to keep this excellent run we're on going when we face Northampton today.

It's important to keep the momentum going because not only do we want to make sure of a our place in the play-offs, we ideally also want to go into them still playing well.

That's the target now, but like I said in the Echo after Tuesday's win over Brighton, I think we need three more points to make sure of a top-six place.

Touch wood that will come today but we can take nothing for granted against Northampton because they are also a good side.

We've had a few battles with them over the years and I remember one season in particular when we seemed to be playing them all the time.

But thankfully we seem to have come out on top on most occasions and we will be looking to keep it going.

Since my last column, Alex Revell has performed his song, which all new signings have to do, and rather disappointingly he was actually quite good.

He brought along his guitar the night before our match at Crewe and there was a bit of banter to start off with it.

But after a while we realised it wasn't at all bad.

He sung Time of Your Life, by Green Day, and it's up there with the best we've had. Maybe next time the X Factor auditions are taking place Alex should pop along.

One thing will never change though and poor old Simon Francis has been getting a lot of stick this week.

He still has his shocking beard and the lads have noticed how he looks like the pregnant man, Thomas Beatie, who has been making the news.

We've all been cracking up over it and have even got Simon to have his picture taken in the same pose his lookalike did in a recent magazine interview.

It's on Steve Collis' mobile phone at the moment and it's the talk of the dressing room right now!