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Joe, the assumption that the club are sitting around with their thumb up their butt doing nothing is a bit unfair. It has been communicated on here (several times), on the clubs social media and in response to many calls and requests from people in purchasing tickets etc....as well as put to press (but we have no control over what they choose to print) that we continue to chase the information. Requests are being made several times a day to FC Astra and we've also informed UEFA that we're having trouble getting the information. The club fully appreciate the length that fans such as yourself are going to in travelling out there to support the club and will obviously do everything it can to ensure that people are not left stuck without tickets or access to the game.

There will be a double DVD, the Cup Final on one and a second with highlights of the rest of the season....a kinda "Road to Hampden" and "Road to Europe" type thing. With so much else going on, and a desire to make sure we get it right, we're not rushing it.....but it will happen.

Press and Journal are reporting that 6,000 tickets have been sold!

They are arriving on Wednesday and flying back on Friday.

We don't have sufficient bandwidth available at the stadium to allow us to live stream the match....or we would be doing exactly that. The game is being recorded though, and we are looking to make it available at some point.

Nobody is gonna swallow one of your stories... People need to chill out a bit. If we don't get tickets before we travel then I'm pretty sure ICT officials / helpers can dish them out on the buses to the stadium. It'll all work out. Chill yer boots, it's not like the club have the information and are not telling anyone cos it's their wee secret.

I will be all over that.

sounds good to me

If you want to look at St Johnstone figures when they qualified to play in 2012.... The home leg saw a crowd of 6023 with 241 visiting fans....home crowd of 5782. That's remarkably close to the 5746 (which included a "small band" of visiting fans) in this years home leg. The higher attendances came when playing against more attractive opposition who would have brought larger travelling crowds.... 7853 v Rosenborg BK - 2013 8594 v FK Minsk - 2013 8486 v FC Luzern - 2014 7001 v Spartak Trnava - 2014 To me, that would suggest that the crowd was influenced more by the opponent than the occasion in and of itself. With Perth being better situated to draw on a larger number of casual/neutral fans, then it's not surprising that's the case. Don't get me wrong, I think it would be great to see us with a crowd of 6000+ (we may do that)....but my personal expectation is that we'll get around 5000. The point of my previous post on this subject was to highlight the potential last years success has to improve the number of season ticket holders....and my view that more season ticket holders would be where the greatest benefit comes from for the club. It's free to list an event on Visit Scotland....but having tried several times without them ever actually listing anything, I gave up. Even attempts to contact them to have the stadium listed as a football stadium have gone unanswered. Those attendances pretty much back up what I was saying in relation to St. Johnstone. The lowest crowds there are around 6k going up to 8.5k. We have the novelty factor of our first ever game in Europe so based on St. Johnstone we should have been aiming for 7k at least. Also don't really accept the larger crowds being against teams with large travelling supports. The highest attendance there is against Minsk. I can't imagine they brought too many fans over!

Hi all, I'm a fan of Romanian football. Yep, it's very probable they'll start with Budescu upfront. Not his best position, but he's always a threat. I don't know if Willian de Amorim will play on the left (he's linked to Steaua). In the case he doesn't play they can start with Filipe Teixeira, a new signing very well rated in Romania. Attention to the [very] quick Enache on the right. Alibec absence is very important IMO (he's not only linked to Steaua but injured as well). I rate him as a devastating striker when he's in form and he made a letal society with Budescu. Daniel Florea is a fine dribbler but not a goalscorer as his numbers show. Not very convinced about their defence (same thing than past season), they lack a natural right back and they lost some players in midfield, added to the good striker Fatai (left to Sparta Prague). I doubt this team (currently!) is better than one year ago, but they still have some good assets. Astra is more dangerous when a superior rival don't take them seriously, like Lyon did past year. I think I never saw a Romanian team creating so many chances against a rival of that level

Perhaps ICT could be a little more proactive and try to find out what's going on instead of sitting and waiting to be contacted? Perhaps they are but as usual the communication and information from the club is amateur. Maybe our fans will just have to pay in, which could sort any problem but for many if it is ticket and they aren't on sale in next couple of days then it will be too late for them to buy them before leaving. Especially fans who don't stay in Inverness.