In 1947 my mate manned one of the turnstiles and I would go down to Belle Vue early and he would let me crawl under the turnstiles

Am I missing something here, or are people seriously trying to convince others that if a man in the Con Club buys a £10 ticket from a Unison member that Unison have bought from the club for £10 instead of going up to the turn style and paying £22 (or whatever) then the club aren't losing any revenue?

(This is, of course, working on the assumption that Unison haven't actually paid full price for the ticket in the first place - which I would suspect to be the case)

Weather or not the club recoups this lost revenue from the sponsorship money received from Unison is another matter of course.

yes i think you might be.
Compare it to season tickets, if you buy upfront and buy enough you get a reduced price.
Multiply that to sponsorship level, as part of your package you will get Z amount of free tickets (i previously posted JCT600s figure as main sponsor of 3500 freebies at the bulls!!).
If the sponsor then buys Z tickets they have an amount, Z x 2 (or half price tickets), alternatively in unisons case they could well be subsidising the ticket's out of their fee's to members instead/as well.
So the club has received £££ for tickets SOLD to the sponsor and £££ for the sponsorship, part of which will be a figure allocated against the "FREE" tickets given with the deal.
Now where does the club not see any money?

Am I - you're wasted you should have been Gadaffi's spin doctor.

Basically the club doesn't lose anything choose where the tickets end up. Simple as that.

Correct, so the crusade is over and the battle lost.