HARRY REDKNAPP believes Saturday's 2-0 victory over Liverpool can finally kickstart the season - and transform what has been a quiet dressing-room.
And his own son, Jamie, played a major role - on AND off the pitch - on a day where heavy rain greeted a rare Saints victory.
Redknapp senior knows the club desperately needed the sort of lift Saturday's excellent performance provided and hopes it will mend any chinks in the players' self-belief.
"It's a big result for us," he said.
"We need to keep it going, we need the crowd to keep getting behind us and we need to keep playing with that enthusiasm and we've got a chance.
"It should give us all a lift - me included. It's been a difficult few weeks.
"We were a very, very quiet team and we needed some players in there who have got a bit about them in the dressing-room.
"To be honest it's the quietest dressing-room I've ever been in and you need one or two who will have opinions.
"Sometimes you need players who are prepared to sort things out - all the good teams have had that over the years and you do need that.
"You need voices among your players. It's no good them all looking at that ground, you need one or two of them in there sorting each other out on and off the pitch.
"It was a big game, they were up for it and it was getting to a stage where we needed a win. We couldn' keep going as we were going."
Redknapp has brought in son Jamie from Tottenham and Portsmouth's Nigel Quashie during the transfer window - two players with big leadership qualities.
Quashie missed Saturday with a knee injury, but Redknapp jnr was at his influential best playing the holding role just in front of the defence.
"Jamie is a big influence in the dressing-room, before the game and at half-time," said manager Redknapp.
"That's important. You need a good dressing-room and he's helped me with that.
"It's important to have people in there who are voices and who have got a bit about them.
"Nigel will also come in with that. We maybe need one or two more like that still."
Saturday's victory was Redknapp's first league win as Saints boss at the eighth attempt and he believes it will inspire a surge in confidence.
"We have all got to be upbeat from here," he said.
"It's confidence - everything in life is confidence no matter what you do.
"We all need a pat on the back. That's the key, we all need a 'well done' and someone to believe in you.
"I've got to keep telling them how good they are and make them believe in themselves.
"If we can keep doing that then we will be okay.
"It was no good hammering them if their confidence was low, I've had to pick them up individually and collectively."
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