After time to work with the squad on their trip to Barcelona, we will now see how our new manager's thinking is going.
In the Everton game we were never going to see the true Mauricio Pochettino, how could we, he would have known little about the players, as any manager will telll you unless you watch a player live in action you cant get a feel for how the player actually is in certain situations and what his reactions will be, with few people left who worked around the first team squad at St Mary's he had little in the way of those who could counsel him either, so he had no real choice but to stick with the same team that Nigel Adklins had picked and pretty much stay to that formula.
However having now spent time in the training camp in Barcelona with the squad he will now have a better idea of what the capabilities of this squad are and whether the current squad has what is neccesary to play the way he want to set up his teams.
So although he will still be limited in what team he can put out, we will start to see how much Pochettino can influence and change their ways starting with Wednesday's trip to Manchester United.
In many ways this game is more important for the way the team plays than the result, to be blunt we are not expected to get anything here, a draw would be a great result, but perhaps the real achievment will be if we can come away from Old Trafford with our heads held high after a good solid display, similar sentiments were expressed prior to the trip to Stamford Bridge and we all know how an inspired display saw us get an unlikely point, however United are not a team in turmoil, especially at Old Trafford where United have won 10 and lost only 1.
So Saints fans will want to see the green shoots of the Pochettino reign starting to sprout starting here.