I was just wondering if it might be a capacity thing... when lots of people are logged on, instead of using the queue as before, they are letting everyone through, but limiting the capability to select seats? Maybe to avoid the situation where you select seats, add them to your basket and then...
Indeed. Checked Watford and Bristol R... and neither have seat numbers, and nor do ones from the end of last season... so that bit is not different, but still crap.