The club are digging themselves a Public Relations hole and appear to be still digging. The amount of rules, clauses and caveats they are putting in the family zone is becoming ridiculous. I get the family zone is cheap and those that sit there have a great deal but are the club seriously going to police it that zealously and start removing season tickets from fans?
Club wouldn't need to do anything if our own supporters hadn't tried to game the system for their own advantage. As usual we create a problem then moan when something is done to try and fix it. Plenty of posts in here last season about how many people were in the family zone with no kids in tow or how it was half empty. Additionally, according to King, there's been complaints from families unable to access the cheap tickets as that area is 'sold out' when the numbers show it averages being a third empty.
Its become more complicated than it needs to be because people, potentially even people who don't use that area, are sat on social media making up imaginary scenarios to get angry about.
I have no problem with the club making it so unused tickets are released and made available to other families and / or clamping down on people trying to cheat the system. This time last year we were talking about how nobody would want to sit with a load of kids in a shit part of the ground. 12 months on we're talking about rules being needed due to demand for tickets, not the worst problem to have.
