Jamie_Beatson

A 26-year-old defender who can't get a game in an absolute clown car defence that is rooted to the bottom of the league? Hold me back.

I’m still at a loss as to what wasn’t inclusive about the sale of tickets for the Hearts away game? If someone has missed out when the tickets were on sale for a full two weeks online and via the club then where does a lack of inclusivity come in to it? I can’t believe that there are people who are able to use this website but who would not have been able to get themselves a ticket if need be.

This seems a bizarre argument all round to me. To generalise it and say older people are going to struggle to buy a ticket full stop is obviously wrong. Plenty of older people are perfectly capable of using technology to buy tickets if they so wish. If they don’t - and it is totally understandable that many can’t or won’t for a variety of reasons - there is a ticket office and a phone number published for the ticket office. There was a two week window of opportunity to buy tickets for this particular match before they sold out. What more exactly do people want the club to do to make sure people - and it must be a small number of people in this age. - who can’t or don’t want to buy tickets online, and who apparently can’t phone the club or go in person - do to help a supporter get a ticket? We can’t have pay at the gate for a game where we’re only allocated 700 seats. Would it be better if fan who doesn’t use technology and can’t make it to the ticket office or phone them turned up at Tynecastle and was told tough luck, sold out? That’s surely the worse option. Going back to a system of only selling tickets at the ticket office for away games is far more exclusive than offering multiple buying options and would be ridiculous.

I expect if they sell it’ll move along to the next part of the Jerry Kerr stand as required, I don’t think they open the lower tier unless it’s absolutely necessary these days.

His opinion was a garbled mess. Describing Clark's tackle as "dangerous" and thus a red while Jack's was only "reckless" and a yellow is just wild.

I wholeheartedly agree with this, especially in the current situation of a change in ownership and even the potential for no sale to be forthcoming. It is something that should exist to act almost as an umbrella organisation for all parts of the support and be there should something like fan/community ownership become a necessity in the future. Quite how you go about setting up such a thing is another question entirely.

Cammy Kerr is absolutely humpty and the fact he has some absolutely colossal number of appearances for Dundee says it all about how they have been run for the past decade. A weak link in a Premiership defence and only passable at Championship level.

I can’t see a logout button on iOS either! Will investigate.

Back up and running after an outage this afternoon. The upgrade to new software is complete and everything should be a) much more secure and b) faster now, with far fewer errors. There was a really irritating one that meant the site wasn't loading at all for non members which should now be sorted. Any bugs you spot please do reply here and I'll sort them out.

The more I've thought about this as a marketing exercise the more irritating it gets for me. I spoke to Matt Gallagher at the PA the other day and kind of mentioned it to him, but this was really an opportunity to try something different and put the current disastrous league form to the side for one weekend and try to rally the fans. My profession til a few years ago was in media and PR - it really wouldn't have taken a great deal of imagination to do something along the lines of: - Emphasise the fact that Saints have won more trophies than Rangers over the past decade. Some tongue in cheek stuff (but absolutely factual) about the fact that Rangers are trying to chase our record down. - Market it as "We Want More" - we've won three cups in the last nine years, and we want another. Again - a bit tongue in cheek - but really hit the fact that we've done it before and we want to do it again, this time in person. - Again, hit the fact that we missed out last time because it was all behind closed doors. "Don't miss it this time" or something along those lines. - Pitch it as a one-off game - forget the league form, forget everything else, this matters more for one weekend. - Just flood social media with constant videos of James Brown/Nicky Clark's goals earlier this season against Rangers along with Zander's header on to Chris Kane at Ibrox during the 2021 cup run, along with the shoot out. And obviously the cup final goals/trophy lifts. Get the excitement going - we've done it before, we'll do it again. - Combine all of the above - if at all possible - with cutting Rangers back to <3000 tickets in the North/Main stands and ticket prices at £20 adults, £15 students/OAPS, £10 12-18 and £5 for U-12s. I'd like to think that having half the number of Rangers fans would see a drop in the costs in terms of policing etc, but that's really not something that's public knowledge. We might not sell out, but we'd surely at least get a home crowd that outnumbers the Rangers support on the day. 4000 home fans and 2800 away at least? Back ourselves, give ourselves a chance, try *something* instead of... this...

I don't think that latest statement moves the dial at all for anyone. I'd be surprised if we top 500 home fans.

Hi all, Just to say again I'm going to be working on the software in the background over the next two days so apologies in advance for any outages or weird stuff you see. Currently having to manually alter the format of 187 database tables that make up the backbone of the forum - which I can tell you right now is not a great deal of fun! Jamie

Not yet. I need the hosting company we use to perform a couple of software updates and changes to the databases that the forum runs off and that hasn’t happened yet.

Afternoon all, Today I've attempted to upgrade the forum software to the newest version. Unfortunately it failed - there appears to be some deep error that's occurred somewhere and I'm awaiting help from the software makers to resolve it - and its resulted in me having to restore the database that the forum runs off of to this morning's back up. As such all posts between 9am and 3pm on November 30 have been lost. Apologies for that. You may also see some instability over the next two or three days as I try to get to the bottom of this. Jamie

Just a note - I've been getting some weird errors popping up the last few days. Our server underwent an upgrade recently and the forum software didn't like it all that much. It now also needs an upgrade that I'll get to as soon as I can. In particular, if you aren't logged in you may get an error on the main forum list page. Once you're logged in it should work fine.

As far as the spam goes, all we can really do is flag the posters as spammers and all the posts get deleted and the IPs banned. These things seem to happen in waves. As for Mad on Saints’ request I did send a password reset last week but it obviously hasn’t come through, I’ll look again tonight!

NEW ARTICLE: Cup double is vindication for everything St Johnstone have done in the last 20 years https://www.weareperth.co.uk/2021/03/09/cup-double-is-vindication-for-everything-st-johnstone-have-done-in-the-last-20-years/

What we can say about Bryson is that his pass to put May through for Conway’s goal was brilliant, exactly the service May needs.

NEW PODCAST: Saints historians Alastair Blair and Brian Doyle have been busy once again - this time charting the sixty greatest Saints of all time. Alastair was kind enough to come on the WAP podcast to talk about the new project - unveiling some amazing stories and stats about the club's history. Listen now at https://shows.acast.com/weareperth/episodes/correcting-sir-alex-ferguson Read more about the book and find out how to pre-order at https://www.weareperth.co.uk/?p=1029

Hi guys, Had a message from the producers of A View From The Terrace, who are looking to do a film on Saints' 2014 Scottish Cup win. Message from the guys below: BBC Scotland football show, ‘A View From The Terrace’ are working on a new unique short film that brings together the voices and memories of monumental moments in a club’s history. A celebration and reminder of the universal moments of football that bring us together, from those on the pitch to those in the stand and even those who for whatever reason couldn’t be there one the day.If you have a story about the 2014 cup final that you are willing to share get in touch, taking in the silly, the stupid, the heartfelt and the emotional. Send us a paragraph with your tale of the day and if selected you will be required to take part in an online interview via Zoom in the next few weeks. If you're interested, email chris@studiosomething.co

In the third episode of the WAP podcast I was joined by Ross County fan Adam Inglis to preview Saturday's game, look back on last season's head to heads and evaluate the Premiership's young Scottish strikers as the new season heats up. https://shows.acast.com/weareperth/episodes/the-richie-brittain-derby Be sure to subscribe to us on your usual podcast app using this link - https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/5f3bb3b117105520fa2c6001

In the second in the new series of WAP podcast I was joine by the forum's very own @Kyle to discuss the past two home matches, tomorrow's visit of St Mirren, Steven Maclean, Morten Gamst Pedersen and Joe Shaughnessy's long throws. https://shows.acast.com/weareperth/episodes/gazing-wistfully-at-steven-maclean

In the a new series for The Twelfth Man we profile The Legends XI - Saints’ Scottish Cup winning team. We start with #1: Alan Mannus. https://twelfthmanmedia.com/alan-mannus/

Hi guys, We've partnered with The Twelfth Man (https://twelfthmanmedia.com/) - the new home of Scottish football fan media - to produce a range of new Saints related content. I'm pleased to say that part of that will include an occasional WeArePerth podcast. Episode one is available now, in which I'm joined by Aberdeen fan Glen Schreuder to chat about the coronavirus fiasco, Aberdeen's squad for Thursday's match, Saints' blend of youth and experience and pre-match predictions. You can listen to it at https://shows.acast.com/weareperth/episodes/we-are-perth-does-podcasts-our-first-episode Alternatively, to subscribe to our podcast feed on your phone/other device click this link - https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/5f3bb3b117105520fa2c6001 You can also copy and paste that link into your chosen podcast player to subscribe. It will also be available through Spotify as well as Google and Apple's podcast services in the coming days. Thanks, and hope you enjoy! Jamie

With three days before the start of the new season - and Saints due to visit Tannadice in the 2020/21 opener - a reminder of a few things you may have forgotten about our near neighbours during their extended absence from the top flight... https://www.weareperth.co.uk/2020/07/29/dundee-united-four-things-you-may-have-forgotten-about-taysides-second-team/