St Johnstone chairman Geoff Brown has assured supporters that any alterations to McDiarmid Park required to accommodate changes to the nearby road would not be a major problem for the club. Plans for £13million worth of road works in the Perth area were lodged with the local council and could mean the demolition of the club's North Stand. If approval and funding are granted, the first phase of works could begin as soon as a year from now and Brown moved to ease any fears fans may have over the plans. He said: "I would reiterate what I said when this was first mooted a couple of years ago - losing the North Stand would not be a disaster for St Johnstone. Even if we didn't replace it with anything we would still have a capacity in excess of 8,700 and that's more than the new St Mirren ground. Any supporter who has seen two stands lying empty for many of the games in the SPL in the past two years will know that this has to be done. However, I wouldn't want a gap site with the motorway passing outside a fence line. We would be looking for something to finish it off, like a smaller stand."
Source: FOOTYMAD
