The season ticket holders have now had their chance, now it is the turn of the club members to purchase their tickets for the League Cup Final at Wembley against Manchester united.
Saints received around 31,500 tickets for the League Cup Final at Wembley on 26th February, with approximately 22,000 going to season ticket holders and another 1,500 or so to a mixture of the club's sponsors, corporate hospitality holders and employees that would leave about 8,000 to go on sale to the club's members.
The problem for those club members are just exactly how many there are of them ?
The club have set down certain criteria for the members, firstly today those who have purchased 8 or more home games get their chance, followed by those on 7 on Thursday.
That is followed by those on 6 on Friday and 5 on Saturday with no announcement about further sales yet made.
That would tend to suggest that anyone below 5 is going to be uncertain of a ticket if indeed it reaches 5.
Given that the initial sale to those on 8 has a portal of two selling days that suggests that there could be a lot of supporters who might qualify for this number as it has a two day period rather than the one.
Although however it is logical that the less games people need to qualify the bigger the numbers might be, that might not actually be the case, membership at £25 is not an outlay that you need to make unless you are intending to go to a fair number of games, indeed there were many on the database who had been to a lot of games but where not members, hence the club offered them the chance to upgrade to a membership and record those numbers.
Given the system for season ticket holders was able to cope with far larger numbers than 8,000 in a one day period, the fact that they have split it into three tranches does suggest that they could possibly sell out to the 5 game qualifiers with some of those missing out.
If there was enough tickets for everyone with 5 games then surely the club would have lumped them in with a higher qualifying group.
But what the club do not know is whether the members will take up their full allocation, certainly judging by the numbers of tickets sold to season tickets, most of them bought their ticket.
After the season ticket sale the lower section at Wembley was sold out as well as the more central sections of the upper level with most season ticket holders opting to be on the lower level and nearer the action.
After the first hour of sale to the members on 8 business has been brisk, as I mentioned only the upper level is available and most of the front rows in these sections have been bought meaning that most seats are in the back half of the upper tier in the £40 section.
So the answer to the question posed in the headline is that it is quite possible that members below 5 games might qualify, but by the time it gets down less than that there will be fewer tickets and it could be a bit of a free for all