You can't change the rules mid-season. Everyone who bought a season ticket did so in the knowledge that they get first refusal on their seats for Cup games.
Come in Gritt and Stump. Nobody is suggesting seriously a change if rules. It seems to me to be a bit of fun given the binfest on here about the price to play a premier league side in the carling cup.
I know irony doesn't always come over in written form but it does seem clear on this occasion.