The exchange, when it comes online, should help when many folk are on Summer holiday.
I'd suggest it's also likely to help you too. Granted, your Mum might not want to sit by herself, but if you were able to get a single seat close-ish to the others you buy today, surely you'd take it and sit...
There are all sorts of sucky situations, of varying degrees.
My 7-y-o is unlikely to be able to come to the game. I have 2 season tickets - 1*adult and 1*child. My daughter uses the child ticket when she's with me, which is every other weekend, so it's just the luck of how the fixtures fall as...
If you don't have the 20 points required (and if you have bought tickets before, you may well have) then you'll have to wait until Thursday for Man City tickets. For West Brom and Newcastle, you can buy now.
I've no interest in buying anything, but I love a good queue me, so I'm in.
As quintessentially British as mincemeat on toast. All I need now is someone to nip in front of me that I can get angry about whilst simultaneously ignoring, in the great British way.