McDiarmid Park

[Borderhibbie76]

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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[Shrekko]

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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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Now this this is so something folk are entitled to be seriously peeved off at today. Absolute joke.

Still Hibs fans getting in at half time.

[Borderhibbie76]

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Now this this is so something folk are entitled to be seriously peeved off at today. Absolute joke.

Still Hibs fans getting in at half time.

The fact we had to drive right round the ground on Way in bumper to bumper passing a locked gate in the process into the car park - honestly what a shambles

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[Hermit Crab]

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Now this this is so something folk are entitled to be seriously peeved off at today. Absolute joke.

Still Hibs fans getting in at half time.

That isn't the grounds fault!

[Shrekko]

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That isn't the grounds fault!

Eh?
I think when you come off the slip road next to the ground 50 minutes before kick off you reasonably expect you’ve left in plenty time. They should have a measure in place to get folk in quicker on match day. 4500 crowd and folk having these problems?

[Hermit Crab]

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Eh?
I think when you come off the slip road next to the ground 50 minutes before kick off you reasonably expect you’ve left in plenty time. They should have a measure in place to get folk in quicker on match day. 4500 crowd and folk having these problems?

To be honest most folk made it into the ground before kick off. We all know how bad McD park is for getting in and out. The roadworks in the area didn't help, this should have been completed before the start of the season.

[Shrekko]

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To be honest most folk made it into the ground before kick off. We all know how bad McD park is for getting in and out. The roadworks in the area didn't help, this should have been completed before the start of the season.

St. Johnstone and the authorities have to know that a late proportion of the crowd park in the stadium car park. To have this situation where you need to go all the way round the ground at snail pace with traffic lights up ahead is scandalous.

Yes, there are other places to park but even some kind of heads up from the club would have been appreciated. Like I say- almost an hour from the slip road to the car park. All the road signs for ‘football stadium’ lead you this way.

All I can say is that there were big gaps in the crowd as I was getting in after kick off.

[O'Rourke3]

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To be honest most folk made it into the ground before kick off. We all know how bad McD park is for getting in and out. The roadworks in the area didn't help, this should have been completed before the start of the season.

They've been working on that bypass for over two years. New slip Road ready before a season starts won't have been a consideration. Been stuck in traffic round Perth around 5 a couple of times and it's far warose than Edinburgh.

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[Moulin Yarns]

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To be honest most folk made it into the ground before kick off. We all know how bad McD park is for getting in and out. The roadworks in the area didn't help, this should have been completed before the start of the season.

Sorry, but the roadwork is nothing to do with St Johnstone. It's a Perth and Kinross council project to open up access to land north of the city for development.

And I've already advised on this thread to ignore the football traffic signs, come off the by-pass at the A85 Crieff turn off, turn right and Tesco is on the right the ground a bit further on.

[Centre Hawf]

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.

[GreenArmyyy!]

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.

[Borderhibbie76]

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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.

Not to mention trying to get thru the catering shambles to the toilets

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[Keith_M]

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.

[ekhibee]

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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.

I'm sure I heard that St Johnstone don't own the ground, it's council owned, so they wouldn't necessarily have that as an option. That might have changed though.

[Moulin Yarns]

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I'm sure I heard that St Johnstone don't own the ground, it's council owned, so they wouldn't necessarily have that as an option. That might have changed though.

Not true.

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.

[pacoluna]

Absolute joke.

[Cod Boy]

Not a thought for the fans they could have delayed the kick off but we are not rangers or Celtic.

[LaMotta]

Parking in the car park there is always a mistake.

[linlithgowhibbie]

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

[Baldy Foghorn]

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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

Mickey Mouse club and ground. Stewarding over zealous, and the parking a shambles.

[Babyshamble]

We parked in a housing estate.best option 👍

[Lago]

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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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Quite sometime since I've been to Perth, but I use to work there and learned early on from home support to avoide car park. I always parked up the road in the housing area, bit of a walk but quicker in the long run, especially when leaving.

[Albanian Hibs]

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.

[MWHIBBIES]

We parked about 5 minutes away in the houses. In and out no problem, home at 6:20.

[Borderhibbie76]

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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.

Yup this is pretty much a mirror image of my day too...

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[Callyballybe]

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.

[Aim Here]

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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.

To be fair, the problem is likely more that Macdiarmid Park is too big rather than the home support is too small. The stadium can fit 20% of the population of Perth (Easter Road would look just as empty if it was 2 or 2.5 times as big as it is now, which would be the matched proportions.

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.

[Callyballybe]

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To be fair, the problem is likely more that Macdiarmid Park is too big rather than the home support is too small. The stadium can fit 20% of the population of Perth (Easter Road would look just as empty if it was 2 or 2.5 times as big as it is now, which would be the matched proportions.

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.

Wasn't aware that Perth was that small, fair do's. Still doesn't make for impressive viewing when sitting in the away end looking out to the other stands however.

[DoubleDangerous]

Missed the first 20 mins due to that wild cue of traffic.

Shambles of a ground, and a crap home support.

[NGP]

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.