Graeme Murty admits that three points will be extra special tonight as he prepares to do battle against some familiar faces.
The defender also sees the match as another chance for Saints to get closer to where they want to be, rather than a bottom four scrap which is where both sides currently reside.
"I'm very much of the Steve Coppell mentality, it's just three more points and three points at home and each game takes you closer to where you want to be," he explained.
"Having said that, I've got some friends who play for Wycombe so it will be nice to get one over them, Michael Duberry and Jamie Young, so if I can smugly take three points off them then I'll be a very, very happy man.
"Michael's a legend, top man and I've been on the phone to him already no doubt I'll get a text later giving me some stick, but I'm looking forward to seeing him and I might shake his hand after the game."
Murty has recently returned to the team after almost three months out with knee ligament damage, playing his first full 90 minutes at Hartlepool last week which he followed up with another full game on Saturday at Northampton.
"I'm enjoying it actually. It's never good when you come back into a team because you feel that you're not quite up with the pace, but it's getting there with every game. I'm getting stronger and I don't think I'm doing too badly.
"It's a new chance for me. I just look at it as a big challenge and more than anything it keeps a smile on my the face of my missus because I'm not moping around the house, I'm back playing football and doing what I love doing.
"It's great to be out there amongst the lads, because when you're sat in the treatment room it is never a happy place although the staff were absolutely brilliant with me here but getting on the training pitch is where you want to be.
"I've looked forward to every day, coming back in and being involved in the games in particular because you get those feelings of nerves and anticipation. You want to be there doing good things and as a team we're currently scoring goals, if we can tighten up a bit at the back then it only bodes well for the future."
His road to recovery has also been boosted by the spirit in the squad and the Scottish international confesses that he and everyone else are always kept on their toes, and that's how the manager wants it to be.
"The squad is important and the lads have been really good with me making sure I was included in the banter and everything. The fines committee have been particularly ferocious in making sure that everyone is on their 'A game' but it's been good and these are all little things that bring you together as a squad. I think you've seen that a little bit of that with the character that we showed at Hartlepool.
"It's been a bit hard for myself but it's just something you have to deal with, there's no point moaning about it, there's no special pill you can take to get fit, you've just got to get on and get it done.
"It's a case of empowering the squad to lift everyone because there will be times when other players have to come in. It's my time to come in so hopefully everyone gets a little lift, but there will be times when others have to come in and we have to be ready for them to lift the squad as well.
"When you look at the guys train and the intensity that they train at, I've got no doubt that whoever is called upon will do a really, really good job because they're ready and they're hungry to play.
"People anticipate Southampton to be a big club who will do well, but anticipation and expectation are not the same as going out and doing it, so we have to go out with a winning mentality and want to win whatever it takes. I think the lads are realising that's what the manager demands every second you're on the pitch."
