What will happen with season tickets/members and also aways Graham? I saw Jay Mckenna outside the HJC shop one game in October and was asking him about random cards being confiscated when passed on at face value. He said there will be a season ticket amnesty soon and after that it will get more draconian. What exactly do they have planned, and what will be done with aways?
No formal discussions yet but the amnesty has been mooted for a couple of years. The new MS had to be finished before they started looking at it though.
Things that have been mentioned is to first get the season tickets in the right names of those using them - there are some people who legitimately have two, three or more season tickets in one name (you could buy batches in the 1990s). There are people who have been using a deceased relative's ticket for years who should be allowed to succeed to them. There will be hundreds of decent reasons why the user should get their name on a ticket in someone else's name.
Once that has been achieved then some technology might be used to make sure that the user is the owner but maybe allow a little flexibility - you might be able to add say five or six 'friends and family' at the start of each season who you could pass to a total of say three or four times a season. But there would be zero tolerance for passing on outside the rules. Zero.
Same for aways - credit hunting would end as the same connection between the buyer and user would be created but some latitude again for those that might miss one or two aways a season to be allowed to pass on and keep the credit.
Both sets of changes would see more STs released to help the waiting list and also target the touts and credit hunters for aways.
Idea is to ask supporters for views and ideas - one suggestion was if you bought from a tout for an away you tell the Club but you get the credit transferred to you and the tout loses all of theirs and gets banned.
Also I think we ask that the club exchange is changed so you get a full credit for the cost of the ticket if you return it to be re-used, hardly anyone uses it as they take a charge for recycling it and then sell it for the full value. Removing the charge would encourage people to recycle properly.