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There are a lot of fans who have served bans, or are serving bans, because they gave a ticket to A.N.Other and that fan was ID checked at the away ground and their ID didn't match the name on the ticket, eg... https://www.theifo.co.uk/a-10-match-suspension-at-brighton-and-hove-albion-fc/...

Absolutely - I'm certainly sympathetic to factors like that. Where there's a loophole available, tickets will be passed on with "my dog ate my homework" reasons/excuses, and I do appreciate it's difficult with paper tickets. I was particularly frustrated when for Spurs, which was digital...

I had two tickets which were going unused due to illness and plans changing and I know @El Presidente also had a ticket going unused. For a game like Brentford, where there would be literally thousands of Albion fans who would have been able to get to the game at short notice, it just feels...

You've written that as if I said we should do a ballot on a small number of away tickets. Did you interpret that from my post?!?

This has been discussed on other threads, and I also spoke to the club about it, before handing it over to the FAB to run with. A proposal was for games where the away allocation is under 2,000 (ie Luton, Brentford and Bournemouth) then instead of setting the second window at 25% of STHs (so...

That highlights my point above - STHs have a massive advantage over non-STH because they always get first dibs. A new STH who has never been away before has higher priority than a non-STH who attends every away game that reaches a members sales window.

Whilst broadly agreeing with the general view of "do the hard yards to get to the less attractive games", I do retain some sympathy. The system is heavily-weighted towards STH (and I say that as a STH) to the extent that there are some fixtures that non-STHs are never likely to have the...