I don’t disagree with any of your points, and from my experience the ticket collection only worked effectively when we had very small and manageable followings, Kyiv and Bucharest.
I do wonder however, were older blues with a lot of points to stop buying tickets, to use or pass on, would they really then all be available to lower points holders. I’m not at all sure that the club wouldn’t just see it as an opportunity to cut the general sale pot still further and pass them out the back door. I actually think that the more tickets that are bought by people with say 28,000 plus points, the harder it is for City to cover up what really happens with a lot of tickets.