The last sentance of Phil Dutton's statement is the bit that concerns me.
"But for the time being this is all about stage one of the amnesty which is all about getting the right names on season tickets and nothing else.”
This indicates that the process of ensuring that season tickets are also identification cards is just the first stage in some process. But we are being asked to cooperate with this without knowing what stage two, stage three, etc, are going to be.
My season ticket is in my own name, achieved after spending 15 years on the waiting list. So I am not fearful about personal impact/consequences here. But what I do dislike is the club introducing a process with a lack of clarity about what comes next. I do not see why the club cannot be clear about stages two, three, etc of this process from the outset. It feels that the club is lacking in transparency when they are asking supporters to engage in a process but not saying what the next steps are going to be.
If the club are going to take further steps, such as saying it is no longer okay for people to hold more than one seasie card in their name, then they need to grow some balls and say that it is not okay from the outset. Otherwise what is the point of doing this whole exercise? Are they trying to hoodwink people into engaging with identification process so that they can then introduce restrictions later.
When Phil Dutton states "We are not looking to take season tickets off supporters, we just want to know who is using it . . ." Then does this mean that touts holding many season tickets are never going to be challenged??? If that isn't stage two or three, following on from the stage one identification card process, then what is???