I missed out on the ballot for Brighton and looked at seat unique before eventually going through another secondary seller which was a bit cheaper at £175 for someone’s south upper seat.
I was successful for Aston Villa in north upper and bought for Mansfield in west.
Now from my point of view the seat unique stuff is a rip off but it at least is one final option. Not one I can afford every time but it’s at least possible.

The issues for me are the ground is going to be too small if we have any sort of success it should have been 60k at least

And the second issue is the season tickets in my view should have stayed the same number as at Goodison. It was stupid to essentially provide more discounted tickets at what £45-50 per game when the club could have made their receipts by having a bigger amount for membership who pay £60-70 a seat. I gave up my season ticket back when I did my nurse training and have paid the price ever since I’m not a tourist I am over the Mersey in Cheshire now so I suppose I am an out of towner. But I object to it being used as a bit of an insult.

My guess is the majority of any seat unique type tickets getting taken are just people like me who are aiming to get to as many games as possible and have failed in the ballot for a game and just trying to find a way to see a game. If I’m lucky I will get to as many games as possible if I can get 12-15 league games (I got a membership for my mum and aunty who lives in Walton village naively thinking they might get to a game but i now realise that linking us three together can only be one entry in the ballot each time whereas I can put all three in separately and hopefully get one ticket from it).
This along with maybe 2-3 from seat unique or secondary sellers then I will be made up.

I won’t get the same seat each time. Bby the villa game I will have done all four sides.


so like I said not a tourist just limited by a tiny number of ballot tickets and not enough imagination in terms of the size of the ground.