Perhaps the one bright spot of this awful season has been the Saints supporters themselves, they have sold out every game in the Premier League at St Mary's and also travelled in large numbers to away games, but that is starting to change.
Despite this season heading to be our worst ever in terms of League points, the Saints supporters have turned up in large numbers with every game sold out at home and the maximum ticket allocations taken at every away game and sold out.
But when it comes to the club itself showing appreciation for that support, there is a deafening silence.
Aside from the usual "Thank you for your great support" line sometimes trundled out in match reports, it feels like Southampton FC have taken the fans for granted.
Evidence of this was in the recent FA Cup ties against Swansea City & Burnley, when ticket prices for adults were over the £20 mark and the Kingsland Stand was closed, the result was that many decided to give both games a miss due to cost and a large proportion of Kingsland season ticket holders when faced with an inferior seat in another part of the ground, also chose to stay away.
The mood amongst Saints fans could not be farther away from the situation just 9 months ago, when we stormed through the play offs culminating in the win at Wembley against Leeds United.
Back then the mood was buoyant, but the club took it all for granted, they tried to make out that creating the red wall and opening fan zones was a present for the fans, but it seems to be a move that backfired, although many use the Northam fanzone and I don't deny it hasn't been popular, but the general feeling is that it was an opportunity for the club to milk it's supporters through overpriced food and drink.
The Northam End being given wholly to Saints supporters has not been a success, it has diluted noise levels rather than increase them, in recent years, the atmosphere at St Mary's has been impressive, but part of the reason for that is the fact that they were right next to the away fans and both sets of fans bounced of each other.
Now with no one to taunt, with the away fans in the far corner, the atmosphere is often flat, aside from frequent renditions of the Allez Allez song stolen from Liverpool, there is nor variety and the actual stand itself seems to be divided into 3 sections, the original Northam Enders on the Kingsland side, a central section and then the Itchen side, neither seem to be able to get co ordination in what they are actually singing at times.
But despite all of this the fans still continue to turn up, however the cracks are now beginning to show, for the Bournemouth game, there was just about a sell out, but the ticket exchange was full of season ticket holders trying to sell their seats, at one stage around 250, that showed in the ground where you could see pockets of empty seats.
Now we have the visit of Brighton on Saturday and with 3 days to go until the game there are still around 800 tickets for sale.
But what do we hear from the club, absolutely zero, I don't just mean thanking us for our support etc, but about the club in general, what the plans are going to be forward next season etc, we see the likes of Adam Armstrong & Sam Amo-Ameyaw leaving and rumours of several other players also wanting out under the new manager, but we hear nothing.
It is if the club fell that if they say zero and pretend everything is fine and nothing is going wrong, that the fans will stick their heads in the sand and believe them.
We need to hear from Dragan Solak, we need to hear from CEO Phil Parsons about what he is doing and not feel like it is another money grabbing scheme, we need to hear from new Director of Football or Technical Director about what is role is and how now he is here things are going to be different.
Supporting a football club is sometimes about perspective, a year ago we perceived that the club was moving forward after relegation a year earlier, but now the perspective is the polar opposite and that doesn't sell season tickets.
So the ball is in your court Mr Solak, it is also in yours Mr Parsons & Mr Spors, tell us how you are going to take us forward,.
Yes perhaps you feel that actions are louder than words, but if we judge you on that, then the verdict is damning.