It's a framework. The club won't be able to say where anyone sits until they know who is attending. If the people who sit in the seats next to you, or immediately in front or behind you want to go then someone will have to move! It's not difficult to understand and you are coming across as a little ridiculous in your demands.
It's an almost impossible situation to get everything exactly right, but with very short notice, the club are trying to make the best of a bad situation.
Oh for goodness sake! The process was worked out back in September for the first aborted trial. Secondly, my initial reaction was prompted by the wording of the announcement i.e. "Free" tickets.
Third. Why should we be not irritated by seating location? What would be so difficult to organise? I have already had this conversation with the commercial department at the club who explained that their objective, at that time, back in August, was to seat supporters in the specific area of the stadium that their ticket related to but, not necessarily in their designated seat. A simple and logical solution.
It's a very simple argument, I've said all along that we were resigned to having spent a lot of money on tickets that we would probably not get to use but, should the opportunity arise to allow supporters back, they should, at the very least get what was paid for in the first place.
And, if that's a framework, it's a framework for disaster. The process is flawed in many ways. How many supporters will be working on Monday morning? How many applicants will it take for the system to collapse? What about those with specific needs that require seats in particular locations? Not all those will be able to attend but some might.
Why, if the application process is on line, can the tickets not be printed at home or displayed via a smart phone? Reliance on the postal service, specifically at this time of the year, is a risk.
Strikes me that this process was thought out off the back of a fag packet.