Should we be reading between the lines ?
The official Saints web site has announced that Lawrie McMenemy and his committee has called off their proposed benefit game this Sunday due to poor ticket sales, but is this the real reason ?
I would contend that the ticket sales were on a par with the publicity given to the event, over the past two weeks since the tickets went on sale there has been zero publicity, no announcements of who is actually going to play in the game or any other press statements from the organisers.
Even the Club's official website has carried little on it and you have had to dig hard to find even the passing mention of it, of course the intentions of the organisers are beyond doubt, but it seems little has been actually done, certainly they havent contacted any of the other groups involved in fund raising ie The Saints Trust or Saints Aid for their input.
You would have thought that in the Clubs moment of need that this would have been a case of "Organise it and they will come" if various celebrities had been confirmed then im sure ticket sales would have been much higher, with a decent walk up on the day there would still have been 10,000 and that would have generated £150,000- £200 K a substancial amount, so have the organisers merely given up and abandoned the Club ?
The answer is to that question has to be an emphatic NO , I think the real reason the game has been cancelled is because they know the Club is on the verge of being saved and that there is no need for this game, however that being the case there was no need to blame low ticket sales on the cancellation, despite some of my comments of recent weeks a fair proportion of our support has rallied to the cause, certainly enough to have made this match worthwhile.