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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.

As soon as we receive it from FC Astra.

away fans only according to ticket master It's for Home Fans.....the wording for that area is not available for us to edit and we're awaiting Ticketmaster making the change for us.

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.

That remains the case at this point in time....and I don't expect it to change for the home leg.

Pretty much....and that's not just a sarcastic comeback The cabinet that supplies the stadium has not been fibre enabled as it only services two properties.

Here here, hear hear, ear ear, er er, terror.....OMG ISIS ARE COMING!!!!

Thank the lord we don't have a Summer League then...!!!!

Think there's similar issues with the adult shirts being tight around the neck....although not impossible to get on.

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.

The club replaced the student/FTE concession with the 16-25 concession. So anyone up to the age of 25 can get a ticket for the FC Astra game for £15. The reason they switched to the age related category was because the take up on student tickets wasn't that high and nearly all of those purchasing student tickets fell within that age category. It was felt that the change would make the reduced price available to more people and encourage increased attendance for that demographic....and that's exactly what has happened.

They had 5746 tonight.... https://twitter.com/St_Johnstone_FC/status/619231425917755392 That's on the back of a season average for 14/15 of 4592. So their Euro attendance tonight was about 25% more than their average. If the expectation is that we should do similar, then you're looking at about 4666 (3733 + 25%) as being the figure. If you want to dig into figures to find something we should be hopeful of achieving, then it's the fact that the average attendance for St Johnstone went up last season by 20%...that's off the back of a season in which they won the Scottish Cup & Qualified for Europe (sound familiar ).....if we could manage something similar, then that would be far more meaningful for the club than how many people turn out on Thursday. I have a bit of audio from an interview with Yogi this week that I'll be sticking online over the next few days that talks about "expectation"....think a lot of people will like it.

Parking for fans will be well monitored by stewards and controlled on Saturday. Disabled fans (Blue Badge holders) parking will be in the South Car Park along with everyone else, but situated closer to the stadium in the front part of the car park while space permits.

If you don't park at the stadium anyway, then why are you getting so worked up about it?

I'm sure someone will moan if it takes them more than 30 seconds to get out of the car park.....so no different than normal

Nobody gets a free holiday when they come up to visit Yogi...not even his kids Take a close look at images of the dugout from the Cup Final....he had someone who'd come to visit with him that day as well.

Don't see much point. It's one of those conversations that takes place every season....get's an explanation every season....but still doesn't prevent the same conversation being had the following season. All I can say is that as soon as there's information to be had, I'll make sure it gets out there. I would fire out some teasers, but that just about got me strung up last time

The potential issues could run sooooo much deeper. What if the winning bidder was to bet on a football match, posts comment online/say something derogatory in public with regards to another team/player/official or any of the many other rules that come with being a registered player? These are not "options" when it comes to being given a contract/registration and they are all things which can carry a financial penalty for both "player" and club. A few years ago I may have even bid myself in order to create a bit of mayhem....!!!

Response to what?

I'll be very surprised if this doesn't end in tears...... http://ptfc.co.uk/news/2015-2016/july_2015/be_a_pro_-_your_chance_to_become_a_fully_registered_ptfc_player

As things stand right now, neither game is due to be televised.

Many of these trialists are guys that Yogi has been aware of for some time. Said in interview recently that he had been aware of Roberts from his (Yogi's) time at Hartlepool....and it appears to be a similar scenario with others as well.

Kick Off for the Home Leg in Inverness confirmed as 7:45pm

I agree with Sneckboy....to an extent. All the publicity is great and getting a wedge of cash from the sponsor is fantastic....but when all is said and done, it's still going to scare children.