City Matters did not ask for it. The club suggested it but we agreed, as the case for doing it was sound. The system encouraged people to buy away tickets and pass them on. I don't see how anyone can think that's a good idea. The people who regularly do away games do it because they want to go to the games, not because they want the points.
You simply cannot complain about the 'wrong' people getting tickets while also complaining about measures to mitigate that.
But I absolutely agree that the points system as it stands needs significant reform. It was originally meant to encourage sales of tickets when we weren't successful , but isnoe being used to ration them. It should be based on no more than the most recent 5 years attendance, which we talked about with the club pre-Covid, but they bottled, as they felt someone who had the 100th highest number of points might fall to 105th place under a sensible system. Shame they didn't apply the same sympathy to people who had their seats taken away by yet another hospitality offering.
Points should also be based on attendance rather than just buying a ticket, then not turning up.
Platinum needs fucking off, which we urged them to do but they refused, despite us suggesting alternative ways of replacing the relatively miniscule revenue (less than 0.1% now) it brings in.
They need to look at the whole system of allocation of away tickets. What worked years ago is not what works today.
But people also have to accept that, as things are, supply is not going to meet demand for most games. We're even struggling to meet demand for home games.
