There are more tickets on sale to Saints supporters as Manchester City are struggling to sell their allocation for our forthcoming fixture at St Mary's.
Manchester City as expected initially took the full 3,200 allocation for the forthcoming fixture, however due to the fact that the game has been moved to a Sunday lunchtime kick off they are struggling to shift the tickets resulting in them already admitting that they have no chance of selling the full amount even with 11 days to go before the game. Therefore they have returned block 43 to St mary's and these are now on sale to Saints supporters.
Strangely enough though there is no sign of our fixture on their website Saturday's game against Swansea is showing as sold out but there is a gap between their home game against Bayern Munich and Sunderland where we should be that is empty.
Perhaps they have given up trying to sell more, perhaps they have sold out the other blocks and don't want to put 43 on sale to their fans, if that was the case you would have thought they would have given it another few days before deciding.
Im sure that Manchester City being Premier league Champions these days see themselves as being able to rival their cross town old enemy Manchester United, the home support seems to be big with an average of around 45k but seemingly this isnt turning into travelling numbers as their rivals seem able to do.
Whilst paying £42 for an away ticket isn't cheap and then there is the hassle of a Sunday afternoon kick off, but Liverpool & United would have had no trouble taking the full allocation and selling it.
Perhaps this gives an example to Saints supporters about how wide the gap is between club's like Liverpool etc who are truly global and can fill away sections throughout the country against even a club the size of Manchester City who are struggling to do so.
The upside for Saints supporters is that no one now should be struggling to get a ticket with an extra 900 or so seats now on sale, with 11 days to go sales were healthy and heading to a full house, now there are a few more tickets on the market.
If you are planning on going get in fast, the weekend's games will go along way to shape the table and this game is looking to be a clash of 2nd V 3rd, who would have dreamed that at the start of the season.