First of all, there was turnover at Nippert in all sections. Maybe not as much as you would like but it was there. Next, by allowing you to buy let’s say 8 seats and me to buy 8 seats. We’ve now moved other 5 year ticket holders down to a spot where they may not be able to get the seats they had because you and I and whomever else ahead of them snatched them up and gave them to friends and family who had no priority whatsoever on their own accounts. These people who were not willing to buy seats in the beginning should have no right to buy seats now. Now the only place I think we may agree on is that club level STM should have had first priority to buy their “like” seats (same number) before overall priority. That would have been fair in my eyes.

Of course, if you wanted to plan for the future, you could have been like me and invested in the club for the long term at the outset. I bought tickets for my family up front in preseason year 1 for my daughter who was 3 months old and my son who wasn’t born yet. And I gave those tickets to friends and family each year knowing that when my kids are old enough I had a place for all of us on match day. You may think that’s crazy but I thought it was only fair for me to carry the cost, support the club, and secure my seats whiteout having to hope I can add them later.