Saints take on the Cherries in the New Forest derby, although given the name, most Southampton fans care more about who has the best trees in their half of the forest, than how Bournemouth are doing.
Judging from Saints fan social media, after Portsmouth most of our fanbase seem to hate Liverpool more than the rest of the league, followed by the rest of the Big 7 in ascending order.
For the majority of the crowd at St Mary's today, this is just another game in a car crash of a season and most will be bemused as to why Bournemouth fans seem to call us "Scummers" or seem to think there is a rivalry.
So most of the background noise will be from the away section talking about "sending Scummers Down", despite the fact that what will have sent us down isn't two games against Bournemouth or individually any other team in the Premier League, but a number of other factors that have led to us finding ourself in this position, unless Russell Martin was deciding his team selections and tactics via an online poll of Bournemouth supporters, then the Cherries will have had no more of a hand in sending is down than any other team.
So having said that, it could well be that Ivan Juric did indeed pick his team to play Burnley in the cup last week and his tactics via that route, so he might well be doing so again this week.
Will he again play 4 full backs and just one central defender ? if not who will partner Jan Bednarek in the centre of defence and who will make up the rest of the team.
I suspect that there will be changes from the side that faced Burnley, it is just about how many.
The back line will perhaps be the easiest to predict, Kyle Walker Peters, Jan Bendarek, AN Other, Wellington.
The centre of midfield should almost pick itself, Big Les Ugochukwu, Mateus Fernandes & Joe Aribo.
The real lottery is who plays in the remaining four positions, who will be the two wide players and who will be the striker or will there be something different.
Kamaldeen Sulemana is a player with great pace, but he is also one who doesn't seem to have much of an end product yet, nor does he seem to have established himself in a position, is he a winger ? or is he a striker ? at present it is difficult to tell.
A player with pace will always have an advantage over one without, but it is about how you use the ball, how many chances you create for other and how many you score, or the other way round depending on where you are playing.
So far Ivan Juric does not seem to know his best starting Xi nor how to use substitutions, he puts out a good starting XI and then ruins all the good work with substitutions as at Manchester United, or picks a poor one, but sees his team rally when he brings on those players he has dropped as at Nottingham Forest and to a lesser degree Newcastle United.
This game does have some meaning though, it is all about getting points that will push un nearer overtaking Derby County's record low points total in the Premier League.
That stands on 11 so if we could win today, then that would take us over the line on that, so would bring some cheer, if we can get a draw then its a step nearer.