We had a mate who couldn't go. Someone used his ticket. No ID checks materialised. But, I guess the pre-match scare mongering from the club managed to put off people taking the mick.
Was still disappointed to see empty seats in the middle level. Maybe these sponsors don't need as many tickets...
I'm too tired to go into detail now, but it's on other threads. Perhaps I'll link to them later. Either way, I got shot down for suggesting that there might be better ways.
It's a question of what fans prioritise most. Being together, or the precise seat in a precise part of the ground.
The whole system was bloody stupid and forced legit fans into all sorts of buying strategies to get tickets together. I'm not saying this is what has happened in Paul's case but it need not have needed to be like that. I imagine there will be a lot of people taking risks on Sunday with tickets...
This may not have happened if the club had considered an approach to apportioning tickets to groups who wanted to sit together, rather than introducing Mike Read’s “run around now!”* window process.
As it is, fans will have resorted to all sorts of strategies for bagging tickets together in...
So, I'm assuming that if I have bought my ticket and two guest tickets in a different part of the stadium and I want to sit in one of the guest ticket seats, then I can't - which seems rather silly.
But hey, this ticketing system is perfect and simply can't be improved.