It would have done no harm to have kept it on. After all those people committed to buying tickets for virtually all away games in the lower divisions. There weren’t that many and if anyone deserved first dibs on them in the top flight it was those people.
I was with away direct, I was also one of the 61 , I was told the reason it was being cancelled was because the club were not allowed to manually hold your personal card details any more as they weren't securely held in a computer