What an utter shambles that place is!! Just back now took us over an hour to get in to the ground with the car meaning we missed the first 20 mins...and nearly an hour to get back out...utter joke
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12-08-2018 06:08 PM #1
McDiarmid Park
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12-08-2018 06:11 PM #2This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Still Hibs fans getting in at half time.
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12-08-2018 06:12 PM #4
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Tooks us forever to get in but thankfully meant we were out within minutes due to an impromptu car park on the grass bit coming in. We also missed the first 15/20, saw some folk as we came towards the north stand being told by police they needed to walk the entire way round from the fence instead of just opening that gate, some folk must have missed a good 30-40 minutes today, shambles.
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12-08-2018 06:15 PM #5
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Agree with all of the above but also have to give a special mention to their “catering facilities”, utter chaos with no queuing system at all. Queued at the beginning of half time and got back to my seat on 61 minutes. Completely embarrassing.
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12-08-2018 06:39 PM #7
McDiarmid Park has always been a nightmare if you use their Car Park.
For some (non-football) events, they used to use a nearby field for overflow parking. Might be an idea if they tried that for football matches.
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12-08-2018 07:12 PM #9
Not a thought for the fans they could have delayed the kick off but we are not rangers or Celtic.
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12-08-2018 07:49 PM #11
Our bus joined the queue on the slip road at 14:15 and we didn't get into the car park till 15:05, funnily enough there was no queue at the turnstiles!
Thought it was hilarious when a bus load of fans got off their bus and started climbing the locked blue gate into the car park and a couple of stewards were telling them not to.
Only 25 mins to get out.
They used to let you use a gate from the car park straight onto the dual carriageway, but someone has decided that is not allowed anymore.
Shambles
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12-08-2018 08:29 PM #13This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote"There's class, there's first class and there's Hibs class" - Eddie Turnbull
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12-08-2018 08:30 PM #14
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12-08-2018 08:52 PM #16
An absolute ****hole of a stadium. Left broxden services at 2pm and got into the stadium at 3.20pm. The new slip road is a joke, takes you round the whole stadium then back into the swamp of a car park which we paid £5 for the pleasure. Too many closed doors underneath the stand. The queue for the food was just ridicilous, took my dad nearly half an hour to get served. After the game we got out the car park at 5.30pm. I will not be driving there again.
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12-08-2018 08:56 PM #17
We parked about 5 minutes away in the houses. In and out no problem, home at 6:20.
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12-08-2018 09:05 PM #19This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I used to work for the council. The problem is the new roads being built around the ground, this is the first time a large number of away fans have been at mcdermid Park and the layout is untried. Not trying to excuse the chaos.
Also, don't follow the signs on the A9 for football traffic, take the A85 turn off, turn right and you are at the ground at the next roundabout.Last edited by Moulin Yarns; 12-08-2018 at 09:12 PM.
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12-08-2018 09:12 PM #20
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We parked in the Tescos 5 mins up the road, in and out no issues. Queuing was alright too, apart from the extremely narrow turnstile entry!
Stadium is a bit dated but worse thing for me today was the home support. First home game of the season and the vast majority of the south stand was empty, and thousands of other seats also empty throughout the stadium. For a one team town, it's pathetic.
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12-08-2018 09:27 PM #21
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As for the South Stand, it's their family stand - their equivalent of the FF lower, though I think it's a case of people seated there actually have to have kids with them, and swearing is banned, which is why it's relatively unpopular. If you've got a stadium that's twice as big as it needs to be, then that seems a perfectly reasonable thing to do - cater to folks with young kids who might otherwise be deterred from going to the football at all.
The actual logistics of getting into and out of the stadium itself is a bit of a shambles, for sure, though.
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12-08-2018 09:27 PM #22
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Missed the first 20 mins due to that wild cue of traffic.
Shambles of a ground, and a crap home support.
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12-08-2018 09:36 PM #23
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12-08-2018 09:44 PM #24
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Missed first 30 mins. Road works and Broxden junction delayed us. Slip road was just a standstill, parked in the crematorium overflow. Walked to the blue gate with 150/200 other Hibs fans who parked in the same place. Police & stewards said we had to walk around to the main entrance, about a 15 mins walk. When I asked the Police when I got to the turnstiles they said it was a council decision to lock the gate.
After the game, the gate was still locked. Some Hibbys spotted a way through, climbing a small fence and scrabbling up a small mud bank. There was a Police Sergeant at the entrance to the car park. I asked why the gate could could not be opened, his response was this is not a car park and we should use the main entrance and official car park.
I said that if the gate was open it would make it easier for 100s of supporters. He then made a comment that at least my hair would not get wet in the rain with the longer walk- I am bald, that was the response from a Police Sergeant. It then took 45 mins to get onto the the motorway. Police & stewards were just miserable joyless c*nts with no effort to make it easier to get to & from a ground that is not designed for the 21st century.
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12-08-2018 10:02 PM #25
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I missed the first ten minutes but tbf I did notice a lot of roadworks around the ground, however the car park was a disgrace after the game. Only plus point was I never paid a penny for parking at the ground?
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12-08-2018 10:57 PM #26
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McDiarmid Park is living proof of the absolute disaster that Aberdeen’s new stadium will be and should be a lesson for Hibs in case we were EVER stupid enough to consider leaving Easter Road.
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13-08-2018 12:05 AM #27
Left the pub, just down from the Broxden services, just before 2.30. Parked up away from stadium and in the ground for 2.45. Housing estates up the hill from the stadium are an infinitely better option than the stadium car park, but the later you arrive the further away from the stadium you will be.
In defence of St Johnstone, the slip road is new and untested for football matches.
What does need sorted is the catering and queuing system, especially the main stand. I saw the police come down and question a steward about the queuing, so they were aware it was an issue, but the steward just shrugged in an "its above my pay grade" fashion and did nothing. The stewards at McDiarmid are universally hated by all that attend the games, due to a combination of over zealous behaviour and general incompetence.
I suggest an email to St Johnstone (and the police) pointing out the issues today, and I'm sure they will look into it. It might result in an officer controlling the filter off the slip road, and some steward training on queuing at the kiosks
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13-08-2018 06:14 AM #28
Total hole. I wasn’t at the game yesterday but I remember a crush caused last season by a combination ******** policemen and folk not having a clue where to que. Shambles of a set up and every time we are there they seem to underestimate the numbers Hibs will take.
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13-08-2018 06:29 AM #30
I wasn’t there but it sounds like something the fans’ reps should be taking up.
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