If we play well then I expect those scales to go the other way as we are all Saints fans.
Are we better than Stoke? Our league position would suggest not but we gave them a bit of a fright, not bad for a team thats only just got back to the prem. Lets see how it goes at SMS, if we win then we have taken 4 points where Stoke will have taken 1 - that would mean in my mind that we are a better team than them no?
As to West Ham (my second team BTW) lets see where we all end up at the end of the season but I believe that if we end up above them it won't be by a lot (prob no more than 3 points) and if we end up below them it will be by no more than that.
Where ever we end up I will not be calling NA a **** or asking for his head - like the rest of the team he is in the Prem for the first time and as such is still learning and IMHO he and the team are learning fast.