The game against the Toffee's is going to be one of those games that we need to have everyone behind the team if we are to come through adversity.
It cannot be denied that at the moment Saints are in a crisis with injuries and suspensions hitting at just the wrong time, however this is nothing new and over the years Saints have at various points had similar crisis's, although I can never remember it being quite as bad as this.
But in the past when this happened the Saints supporters didn't turn to internet message boards to vent their fury's about why this should never have happened and why it wouldn't have happened under the last Chairman/manager etc, if only for the fact that for most of them the internet wasn't in existent.
What happened back then was the Saints fans showed the Spirit Of Southampton and did what football fans did back then, they got behind the team and drove it forward, sometimes to great effect, just when it looked like it was a situation that was beyond our control.
That is what is needed now against Everton, it will do Southampton Football Club no good at all if certain sections of the supporters at St Mary's for the game against Everton turn on firstly the usual scapegoats and secondly any youngsters forced into action.
Of course the past wasn't all rosy and there were plenty of games were the Dell crowd turned against the manager or players, but in the main at key moments it united and turned the energy from a negative to a positive.
Older supporters will remember seasons like 93/94 when protests against Ian Branfoot stopped the moment the game kicked off and the crowd got behind the team and in vital games it worked, the Newcastle game of that year when Matt le Tissier scored two wonder goals for instance.
But there were other seasons as well 95/96 when Manchester United on the cusp of winning the League title had the champagne put on ice as we beat them 3-1, this was the game when they changed their shirts, not as many TV pundits try to tell us, the following year when we beat them 6-3
But the power of the crowd was never more evident than in 98/99 when Saints looked dead and buried after a Boxing Day home defeat against Chelsea and although are away form remained appalling this would be our last loss on home soil, in the remaining 9 fixtures we won 7 and drew 2.
The crowd sensed something in home games and that filtered through to the players, when fellow strugglers Blackburn went 3-1 up in the 47th minute at the Dell with only 4 games remaining after that, we looked down as their players taunted a distressed Saints crowd, but Mark Hughes scored his only goal of the season just after the hour and and Marian Pahars equalising on 81 minutes to raise the roof, Blackburn hung on for the draw but we would not lose the remainder of the season and complete the "Great escape" as it became known as Selhurst Park became Dellhurst Park with well over half the 24,068 crowd from Southampton..
The morale of the story is that perhaps the internet and blanket coverage of the Premier league has changed the way we support football, there have always been scapegoats in football and at Saints we have had more than our fair share, but we didn't seem to revel in their failings as some do now with certain players.
This leads to sometimes football supporters losing sight of what we should actually all want and that is our team to win games and play at the highest level and challenge for honours.
When we play Everton this is what we should want, we should want to see our team battle through adversity and come out of the other side with three points, not as it sometimes seems with defeat and the opportunity for people to say "I told you so"
We don't have to look back too far for an example of this, the second game of this season to be exact when we drew with West Brom and Graziano Pelle was now clearly the main culprit of all our woes, that soon changed .
So the situation is not ideal, but lets try and turn it to our benefit, lets leave the moaning and ironic cheers at home for the afternoon, lets all get behind the team and see what we can achieve, we might just surprise ourselves.