Die Hard Saints Fans Set To Create Siege Mentality
Saints seem likely to get their smallest attendance of the season so far when they face Watford tonight, but that could work in their favour.
Saints look set to record the lowest attendance of the season so far when Watford visit this evening, there are plenty of tickets still available and the attendance is likely to be lower than the 29,573 that watched the 3-0 win over Norwich City earlier in the season.
But that could work in Saints favour, when the attendance drops it is often the most critical fans who are first to show their dissent by not turning up and that means that rumblings in the crowd are less than usual and the die hard fans who turn up whatever the results get behind the team and create a siege mentality.
This is just what Saints need as they go into a critical week, with two Premier League home games in the space of four days a couple of wins would set the season up for a surge up the table rather than looking over our shoulders a little at the bottom four.
Certainly the team with several key players back are well overdue a couple of back to back wins again and they are more than capable of it.
So although there will be plenty of seats empty this evening, there will be no let up in the atmosphere, traditionally in situations like this Saints supporters have stood up and been counted and tonight we will find that out again.
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