 He made his Southampton debut away to Oldham on 15 February 1975 and appeared 14 times that season.The following season (1975–76) he made 37 league appearances, scoring 7 goals, as Southampton laboured away in the Second Division.Their league campaign was overshadowed though by a run to that year's FA Cup Final, during which McCalliog scored at Aston Villa and Bradford in the early rounds.