Saints have asked their supporters to turn up in numbers for the visit of Derby Couny on Saturday in a game that could see Saints regain the top spot.
Understandably Saints recent home games have shown a drop after the full houses over the festive period, the visit of Leicester attracted only 14 over 21k meaning that only around 20,500 Saints supporters could be bothered turning up, the visit of Cardiff was perhaps more disapointing in that after allowing for the 1,800 Cardiff fans there, the home fan count wasnt significantly higher for such a important top of the table fixture. Last weeks visit of Burnley saw a little over 24k in total including 1100 from Lancashire.
All of these three gates are a lot less than the 25,545 average for the season, with ironically Saturday's visitors Derby being slightly above us in the average attendance stakes.
So is it unfair for the Club to call for its fans to rally behind them as they strive to take another step towards the Premier league and indeed regain top spot, is it unfair for the club to at least expect to get its average attendance through the gate for such an important match, I would say no, as the season reaches its last third we are reaching the business end of it, we need all the support that we can muster, time to get behind the team