50 TOMMY JENKINS
1969-72, 95 appearances, 6 goals

The flying winger had a tough act to follow when Ted Bates bought him to replace John Sydenham, who had played more than 400 games for Saints. And he frequently frustrated fans by beating three players down the left wing, then trying to beat the fourth just for fun. But in full flight, with his socks around his ankles, Jenkins terrorised defences and brilliantly sustained Saints' historic threat from the flanks. In full throat, the Dell fans singing "We've got Tommy Tommy Tommy Tommy Jenkins on the wing, on the wing" made the hairs on your neck stand up. Bought from Reading for £60,000 (having been at non-League Margate the year before), he moved on after three years to Swindon Town.

49 HUGH FISHER
1967-77, 356 apps, 11 goals

Hughie was, to be honest, a bit of a journeyman midfield player in the mould of Matthew Oakley. He also had bad luck in breaking a leg in a collision with Bob Wilson, the Arsenal goalkeeper. And his goals to games ratio was, like Oakley's, slightly lacking. But he was popular and loyal. And Hughie did score one goal for Saints that immortalised him. With Saints 1-0 down In the dying minutes of a third round FA Cup tie against Aston Villa on January 3, 1976, the ball came to him on the edge of the area. Fisher swung his left boot - "a pot shot" said the Daily Telegraph - and the ball flew into the corner. I can still see it now. Saints went on to win the replay at Villa Park and, ultimately, the Cup that year. Sadly, he was injured for the final - he was on the substitutes bench, but didn't come on - and within a year, had moved on.

48 KELVIN DAVIS
2006- , 145 apps

In his first season, he was good. In his second, better. And last season, he was outstanding. A shining light in a season of dross and relegation to the third tier. And he stayed despite an offer to be West Ham United's No 2, a cushty job with presumably better pay, which has endeared him to the fans. Davis joined from Sunderland when they were relegated from the Premier League in 2006 and had a reputation as a good shot-stopper but being iffy on crosses. Partly true. But he has improved further and will (again) save Southampton ten points this season.

47 JAMES BEATTIE
1998-2005, 234 apps, 76 goals

It was a brilliant bit of trading by Dave Jones that took Kevin Davies to Blackburn Rovers in exchange for Beattie and a big pot of cash in the summer of 1998. The Big Man had started only one league game for Rovers, but was Player of the Year in his first season for Saints, scoring a critical goal away to Wimbledon in the penultimate game to avoid relegation. He was inelegant, a giraffe on ice, and was more power than poise, more Alan Shearer than Gary Lineker. Yet he had the passion and was an extrovert leader in a team often threatened with relegation from the Premier League. In the 2002-03 season, he scored 23 goals in 26 league games between October and April, and helped take Saints to the FA Cup Final. But he also had long barren scoring patches, was convicted for drink driving and had attitude and fast cars, which alienated some - his gestures to fans at Charlton Athletic in 2004 was a breaking point. The £6m Everton paid was regarded as good business but fans will always be grateful for his goals.

46 BRIAN O'NEIL
1970-74, 171 apps, 19 goals

Saints' record signing at the time - £75,000 - from Burnley, the maverick midfield player fitted in well with a team whose style was described by Mick Channon as “scratch, bollock and bite.“ O'Neil played every game of his first season, 1970-71, the year that Bill Shankly famously described Southampton as “alehouse footballers“ and which ended with a 6-0 routing of Crystal Palace in which O'Neil and Channon scored. But Saints also finished in a European place that season and O'Neil's all-action style endeared him to fans. And no wonder: he owned a racehorse with Channon, played practical jokes on team-mates and was frequently suspended for over-enthusiasm on the pitch. I remember seeing him in a Southampton pub with Channon and others on the Friday night before a game: nobody thought anything of it or bothered them. And we loved them for it. They were one of us.

45 CHRIS MARSDEN
1999-2004, 152 apps, 8 goals

While Beattie may have scored the goals, a large proportion were set up down the left by Chrissie Marsden and his sidekick, Wayne Bridge. Marsden became a very unlikely talisman for Saints after arriving from Birmingham City. Bald, with a waddling gait and over 30, his brilliant link-up play with Bridge and industry in left midfield won the fans over quickly. The chant going "Chrissy Marsden Football Genius" or CMFG in short. He became captain when Saints left The Dell for St Mary's and captained the team in the 2003 Cup Final. He only scored six league goals (Dave Jones, the manager at the time, reckoned he didn't have enough belief in himself) but one at Ipswich Town in 2002 was outstanding. Drifting in from the left, naturally, he just kept going and going, beating three defenders before netting. "It was Maradona, Ricky Villa and John Barnes rolled into one," he joked.