Rickie Lambert is set to make an emotional return to St Mary's at the end of the season and will once again pull on a Saints shirt.
Rickie Lambert is the first name confirmed for the Promotions XI who will take on this years squad in Kelvin Davis's testimonial game on Tuesday 17th May.
It will be a welcome return for Rickie and Saints fans will raise the roof when he runs out on the pitch again in a Saints strip.
It will probably be a bitter sweet moment for the striker who enjoyed five great seasons at the club, leading the attack as the team rose from League One to the Premier League taking in Wembley for the Johnstone's Paint Trophy along the way.
Two years ago Lambert was at the top of his game being one of the leading Premier League scorers in his two top flight years for Saints and forcing his way into the England side for the World Cup in Brazil in the summer of 2014.
But then it all went sour on the playing side for Rickie, I don't blame him for the move to Liverpool, unlike most of his team mates Rickie had not spent a decade on big money, he only truly started earning anything like mega bucks when Saints went back to the Premier League.
The move to Liverpool was a double bubble for him, firstly he got to play for his boyhood idols and secondly he got to have a big pay day to secure his financial future.
But on the field it was not a success and Liverpool tried to move Rickie in the January transfer window, barely six months after he arrived.
Last summer he went to West Bromwich Albion and this has not been a success he has started only 5 Premier League games plus 14 off the bench scoring only a solitary goal.
Now he is struggling to get on the West Bromwich Albion bench, he was an unused sub at Spurs last night and has not seen action since mid March and that was a 4 minute sub appearance.
Perhaps he will wish he had stayed at St Mary's last season when he runs out.
But Saints had his best years and he is and will always remain a legend at the Club 197(10) League appearances producing 106 goals, not to mention cup games and goal.
The biggest cheer on the night will be for Rickie Lambert, Im sure that even Kelvin Davis will not mind that.