Out of curiosity, what sheer idiocy are you referring to?
I don't disagree, but curious to get your perspective.
And more to the point, what would have been better?
I was referring to how the whole of the 'Kop' is one category when as far as I'm aware, there is a standing section within that. Also, I think the website randomly spits out seats and many people looking for multiple seats in one category or the other often ended up with seats that were separate by miles. So many people on the supporter's clubs forums I've been reading have been trying to get tickets together and many have ended up with many more tickets than they need and are now reselling it.
The other problem with not demarcating the standing section out or at least calling it an active support section so people know not to go there is that at least last time, there were many people that just wanted to sit and watch the game that ended up on in the standing part of the Kop while many supporters that wanted to stand and sing ended up spread out across the stadium. This of course is just a personal anecdote and I'm happy for someone to correct me.
In Melbourne, I actually got tickets after hours of trying on the other side of the ground near the Victory supporters and I went into the game that day and was sitting in my seat and stuffing myself (I had to after several pints of imperial ales at Beer DeLuxe
) when I heard the PA announce that standing section seats were still available (They sold out in something like 30 seconds from what I gathered on other forums). So I thought fuck it, left my seat and went across, stood in the line to buy a ticket to the standing area when some random bloke came and literally just gave me the ticket saying it was a spare and was going to waste. So I took it and went there. I guess the moral of the story is that many people were put in seats randomly assigned by the ticketing vendor and that separated groups of people and many were in areas that they didn't even want to be in because of the system.
I've now sorted myself and I'm going in bay 311. Right in the middle of the 'Kop' area. Fucking delighted. The guy that sold it to me had the same problem. He and his girlfriend got split and put in random areas and on the second attempt, he got tickets together and therefore sold his tickets in the 'Kop' area. It's quite a clusterfuck. Ticketing appears to be more a matter of a DNS lottery than anything else.