The televising of the game and the two switches of kick of time have done nothing to help ticket sales for the game against West Ham United on Saturday evening.
Saints still have a couple of thousand tickets left for the game against West Ham United on Saturday evening despite the four game unbeaten run that has seen the team surge up to seventh and looking to get on the coat tails of West Ham by taking revenge for the narrow defeat at Upton Park just after Xmas.
This hasn't stirred up sales at the ticket office though and there are not only seats available in all areas, but big clumps of unsold seats in the Chapel End.
That is sad to see after the great results achieved by Ronald Koeman's team in the past month and the side deserve to see a sell out, whilst I understand why the change in kick off time and the game being on TV might put off some from going, a midweek kick off didn't affect the crowd last season when 31,241 watched a Wednesday evening game.
Perhaps the Saints board would do well to take note that St Mary's isn't quite selling out games in the same way it was over the past couple of years and with the team doing so well that can mean only one thing, prices are too high, given that West Ham have taken the full allocation and the number of season ticket holders we have, it seems so far only around 3,000 floating fans have bought a match ticket.
Given that we took 50,000 fans to Wembley a few years back, why is it that out of over half of that number who are not season ticket holders, only 3,000 of over 27,000 on the database have bought a ticket for the visit of West Ham.
Ralph Krueger take note, supporters will not just turn up whatever, footbal fans are being priced out of the game, Saints pride themselves these days on being a forward thinking club, on the day that the club announced a great new initiative in the USA, perhaps they should also look at what is happening a little closer to home.