Saints have been drawn at home in the knockout stages of the Checkatrade Trophy after winning their group.

Saints are again looking at a return to Wembley in the Football league Trophy, in 2010 it was called the Johnstones Paint Trophy and now in the newly named Checkatrade Trophy they have been drawn at home to Reading U23's in the last 32 of the competition.

Saints will be in confident mood given that the Biscuitmen or should that be Biscuitboys only qualified in 2nd place in their group and lost to Yeovil this week, added to that Saints have beaten them already at academy level this season, beating them 3-1 at Staplewood.

The game will be played on December 5th at St Mary's although it looks like it will not be a massive crowd present with Saints supporters not really taking the competition seriously as they did in 2009/10 when the first team competed in it for the first time and it was seen as the resurgence of the club culminating in beating Carlisle at Wembley in the final.

However supporters on message boards seem to be unanimous that should the club reach Wembley for the final then they would attend the game, indeed many would see it as a fitting tribute to Markus Liebherr who started the ball rolling back in 2009 when he bought the club and the iconic image of him taking photos from the Royal Box at Wembley and clearly enjoying the day.

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davepid added 13:32 - Nov 10 Nick, The Times gives last nights attendance as 0. Do you know why.?
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SonicBoom added 15:50 - Nov 10 Yeah. No one turned up.
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schatfield added 08:08 - Nov 11 Saints must be the only club who actually take this competition seriously, seems no one else does
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SaintNick added 08:23 - Nov 11 Saints didnt announce the attendance, Im not sure why but they havent done this the last couple of home games and they dont seem to put the attendances on the results section anymore
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SaintBrock added 18:41 - Nov 11 Oh Really? The SaintsWeb Forum suggest no tickets were issued for the match and people turning up paid at only one entrance and no receipts were given. Without records of course there would be no official attendance figure but surely somebody must have accounted for the cash handed over. Some reports suggest more than 2000 might have turned up so where's the £10k gone? Surely not in back pockets?

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