Yep I'm aware of the old scheme and I want to see it back.
I get and completely understand your comments about a retina scan and privacy (there are privacy laws that exist and protect the individual) but it is the only way to ensure the actual ticket holder goes to the game. It is the only way to ensure ST's are genuine and are not held by touts or by genuine fans who hold multiple ST's with some used as the sole purpose to re-sell (we all know someone that does this, I have at least 5 mates that do it!). If there is a slick, easy incentivised system in place then it doesn't matter about loaning your seat to a mate if you can't make a game (I do this whenever I can't make a game, it goes to a mate or a family member) but they will still get one through a fair well balanced system, so no looses out. You only have to look at the scum and now West Ham to see what happens when people don't turn up, there is an empty seat. This means someone who would love to go is denied the opportunity to go because the ticket holder is too lazy, too rich, couldn't give a fuck, isn't a fan of the club anyway. Are you aware that Bayern fans who do not turn up to a number of games (there is a certain number of games but don't know how many times) lose their ST if they fail to turn up. One off's like traffic or emergency's are taken into account. Also as for getting in and delays, we are all searched now on entry anyway, there are delays.
On a whole new twist and nothing to do with the ticketing allocation "problem": In light of recent terrorist attacks would you feel safer knowing that ticket holders have been scanned and are who they say they are? Given our links to the jewish society hasn't ever crossed your mind that out of all the clubs in the western world both us and Ajax would be at the top of the list?