Given that the prices are so low and on the back of the first win at St Mary's in a while, it is strange that so few have bought advance tickets for the visit of Wolvherhampton Wanderers on Wednesday.
After pricing the tickets so competively for this game Saints could be excused for being a little disappointed at the slow advance sales for the visit of Wolves on Wednesday evening.
The last League Cup game that Saints took part in was at Wembley and 35,000 got tickets with thousands more desperate to go, however at the moment a look at the online ticketing system shows that we have sold barely a third of the stadium so far.
Perhaps it is a throwback to the lack of goals at St Mary's before Saturday's game against West Ham, perhaps the change of name of the Competition has confused some fans who think this is one of the games in the Checkatrade trophy that our U23 team is taking part in, whatever the reason the take up so far has been poor.
One reason it cannot be is the cost, at £10 for an adult ticket, £8 for concessions,, £5 for under 18's and £3 for under 11's this should be a game affordable to most, a family of four with a 13 & a 10 year old could go for a total of £28, when you compare that it would have cost £88 for the same seats against West Ham at the weekend that highlights what a good deal it is.
In the past we have had some good crowds for early League Cup games last season against Palace we had 14,000 rising to just under 22,000 for the visit of Sunderland, so why the poor take up this time
The hope will be that there will be a late surge for tickets on line in the next days, but with the time for posting out the tickets past this could cause disruption on the night if there is a big walk up as there usually is on these occasions.
The low take up so far should perhaps ring a few alarm bells in the club in that a large percentage of the fan base are still rightly or wrongly disenchanted by last season's performances under Claude Puel as well as the issues with Virgil Van Dijk, there is still a lot of negativity towards the club and they need to work hard at dispelling this.
Whilst certainly the marketing and ticket office have worked hard to do this hence the low prices for this game, ultimately fans turn up for what is happening on the field and these low sales so far are almost certainly largely due to Saints lack of activity in the transfer market this summer with many supporters worried that the failure to even sign a replacement for Jose Fonte sold 8 months ago, let alone Virgil Van Dijk will cost the club dearly.