Best wishes to Lawrie for a speedy recovery.
Was talking to my nipper after watching the Palace debacle on Saturday about the impact of an FA Cup win, and said that Southampton FC and the City generally got a decade of momentum on the back of the cup win in 1976. McMenemy's growing reputation and profile was key to this. Having already brought the likes of Osgood to the club, he signs Bally from Arsenal later in 76 and has his established model - senior pros mixed with promising youngsters. Ten years when we had some incredible players and could give any side in Europe a game, best time to support the club. The big man really should already have a statue at St Marys to compliment the man who brought him to SFC.