Saints fans should give Jack Cork a rousing reception when he returns to St mary's for the first time with Swansea City, then we should show him what he is missing.
Jack Cork was a good servant to Southampton Football Club, in his two spells here he put in performances that were almost always consistent and almost always underrated by the manager he was playing under in he Premier League.
It was certainly no surprise that he left in January with only six month's left on his contract with the benefit of hindsight perhaps he might have signed a new one, certainly he was a vital cog n the midfield, but with Ronald Koeman preferring a partnership of Wanyama and Schneiderlin he found it hard to get in the side at times.
But at the start of last season he played a big part in the side with Koeman preferring to use him instead of Wanyama is many games, the pairing of Schneiderlin and wanyama was often unnecessary in games against the likes of Sunderland etc and ork's ability to move the ball on quickly meant that we were able to utilise the pace of Mane and the overlapping Clyne and Bertrand to catch teams on the back foot and break quickly.
After Cork was injured in December and subsequently transferred to Swansea we lost that ability and struggled to create and score with the fluidity of the early part of the season, es injuries to key players played a part in that, but Cork was a big loss in this respect.
In his first spell here Jack played 22(1) League games plus 2 in the cup, followed by 94(21) league games and 11(2) in the cups, ironically he did not score a goal until the final months of his stay, when he suddenly hit a purple patch scoring three times in six games as Saints won all of them culminating in the 8-0 thrashing of Sunderland.
So good luck to Jack Cork at Swansea and in his future career wherever that may be, although obviously not against Saints, it would be good to see Saints fans acknowledge the part he has played in his time at St Mary's helping us out of the Championship, establishing us in the Premiership and taking us up a notch to be a top ten side.
Saints fans should give him a rousing reception before and after the game, but during it show him wht he is missing.