Dickie - I am not either a RFU employee nor on RFU Council, so am not a "source deep within the RFU". I am a Society Committee member and a CB VP and as such had full advance access to the tortuous explanations of the Community ticketing process. I have also as a Society Chairman been through a ticketing conditions breach, and most unpleasant it was.
My name would have been on past 6N tickets as Society Chairman (duh) but as I haven't bought any for three seasons it should have been changed to the current incumbent.
when I buy four tickets to a RWC game I am expecting to find my name on all four tickets (surely the RWC aren't going to ask me to name precisely which or my friends will come with me?)
so it's established that a person can go to a game with someone else's name on the ticket.
the key thing is whether I am personally required to occupy one of the four seats.
I am not planning to tout any tickets but the two plausible scenarios I am thinking about are these:
1) I buy two tickets for a game and give them both to my son to go with a friend. The friend pays me the face value
2)
I buy two tickets for a QF3 and meanwhile Simon is lucky enough to get two tickets for QF4.
England and Wales both qualify from the pool (hurray!) but into the 'wrong' QF
So Simon and I swap our tickets.
both of those seem to me to be entirely within the spirit of the RFU policy - but do they contravene the T&C and would they lead to Simon and I getting our clubs/societies into deep doo doo, my whistle being confiscated and Simon being stripped of his blazer?
It's a genuine question .
