Wolves midfielder David Jones has twice been a part of squads which have won at St Mary's Stadium.

Whilst with Derby in the 2006/07 season David played the full game as the Rams beat the Saints 1-0 down on the South Coast and then sat on the bench in the first leg of the play-off semi finals as his team secured a 2-1 success.

Nothing too outlandish in that perhaps, until you consider just what sort of record Wolves have had at Southampton in recent years.

Wolves have failed to trouble the scorers in five visits to St Mary's Stadium, drawing twice and losing three games as they endured seven-and-a-half barren hours of action.

Furthermore they have not beaten Southampton in some 17 meetings since April, 1980, in which an Andy Gray brace and Norman Bell secured a 3-0 success.

Heck they were barely seconds away from breaking the mould back in March only for Jason Euell to head home a last gasp equaliser.

But of course much of that weight of history had absolutely nothing to do with the current young and hardy band of Wolves player who make the long trip South on the back of four successive wins.

And Chris Iwelumo scored an injury time winner at St Mary's this time last year as Charlton took the spoils despite being reduced to ten men for much of the game.

Hence why David and company won't be taking too close a look at the history books come 3pm on Saturday, bar the age old adage that records are only there to be broken.

"That's a record we've got to put right tomorrow and something we've got to get cleared up," says the midfielder.

"It would certainly be nice to score a goal or two and get a victory down there!

"I was part of the Derby team that won there in the league a couple of seasons ago.

"We won 1-0 but they absolutely battered us, it was daylight robbery!

"It is always a difficult place to go, Southampton have always got some good flair players and they do like to play football.

"But so do we, so it should be a very good game."

Over the last two weekends Wolves have disposed of two of the division's in-form teams by rattling up maximum points hauls against Cardiff and Burnley.

Tomorrow offers a different proposition at a Southampton team just a point and place ahead of the bottom three but David insists the game will be approached in exactly the same manner as each and every other one.

"It's like any team in the league that we play," he insists.

"If there are a few of our players not on a par for us then they will take advantage so we've all got to be on top of our games.

"It makes no difference where Southampton are in the league because everyone in the Championship is dangerous.

"They've got quality players who could make a difference on the day and punish us if we let them.

"We've got to approach the game in the same way as we have done recent games."

That approach also now includes the aim to build on the long-awaited clean sheet posted in the victory over Burnley.

Wolves remain the country's top goalscorers, but had been working hard to try and prevent so many goals going in at the other end, the reward coming with the sort of solid and watertight display which David hopes will become the norm.

"We'd worked a lot in training on the shape of the team and the defensive responsibilities of everyone because it's all about playing as a team," he explains.

"If one player doesn't do his job then we might end up overloaded in different positions.

"It's a team effort, we've worked on it in training and hopefully it's starting to pay off.

"I think the gaffer said after Watford that we can't keep conceding like we were and that if we were going to have to score three every game it was going to be pretty difficult.

"He's highlighted it with 'TC' (assistant coach Terry Connor) and we've worked a lot on it and now we've got a clean sheet hopefully we can keep that going along with scoring goals.

"As a midfielder it is great to play in a team with so many options and we know we've got goals in the team.

"It's an exciting Wolves team but hopefully we can stop the goals going in without losing that attacking edge.

"Sometimes before we've probably been looking to attack before we've defended which the gaffer has highlighted and hopefully we will improve."

Wolves are nursing a six-point advantage at the Championship summit heading into tomorrow's programme of fixtures but once again David believes that doesn't count for a great deal.

The pendulum can swing with dramatic effect in English football's second tier, hence why no one at Molineux is looking any further than that clichéd next game.

"We've had just the response to the Norwich game that we wanted," adds David, after Wolves responded to a 5-2 defeat at Carrow Road with four successive wins.

"Hopefully we can continue the run and keep it going as long as possible.

"We've got a decent points tally but we want to try and keep the gap where it is, keep pushing on and improving.

"All we can do is keep concentrating on our next game.

"I know it's a cliché but as long as we take care of what we are doing then things take care of themselves.

"We have to keep doing what we're doing without worrying about anyone else and see where that takes us.

"At the same time, we also have to remember it is still early days and there is a very long way to go."

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