St Mirren take on Partick Thistle in the Betfred Cup on Wednesday night with the match exclusively live on St Mirren TV.

St Mirren season ticket holders will be able to watch the match for free on tv.stmirren.com as a thank you for the ongoing support.

Coverage of tomorrow’s match will feature our usual pre-match show with Ali de Foy, starting at 7:30pm. Ali will be joined by a special guest and our commentary team will be joined by ex-St Mirren and Partick Thistle defender Tommy Turner.

Non-season ticket holders and Partick Thistle fans who wish to watch the match can do so on ppv.stmirren.com for just £10.

St Mirren Football Club is delighted to announce the signing of Brandon Mason on loan from Coventry City subject to clearance.

Brandon joins until the end of the season with Coventry retaining the option to recall the defender in January. 

The 23 year-old becomes our second deadline day signing after the club announced Daniel Finlayson earlier this evening. 

A graduate of the Watford youth academy, Brandon played twice for the Hornets in the English Premier League before joining Dundee United on loan.

After leaving Watford in 2018, Brandon joined Coventry City where he has made 46 appearances - 17 of which came last season as the Sky Blues secured promotion to the English Championship.

St Mirren Football Club is delighted to announce the signing of Daniel Finlayson on a season-long loan from Rangers FC with an option to buy at the end of the season for an undisclosed fee subject to clearance.

Capped by Northern Ireland at U19 level, the 19-year-old defender joins Jim Goodwin’s side after ending his loan spell at USL Championship side Orange County SC.

St Mirren Football Club firmly believes in carrying out business in the correct manner and keeping fans accurately informed, as such the club can confirm that it has today reluctantly agreed a deal with Hibernian Football Club for the transfer of Kyle Magennis.

The club had been working for over a year on a new deal for Kyle and offered him a new four-year deal on improved terms, however, it became increasingly clear that Kyle saw his future away from St Mirren.

After the initial approaches from Hibernian were rejected, Kyle made it clear to the club his desire to move. With this in mind the club made the difficult decision to accept an improved offer and allow Kyle to make the move.

The club shares the disappointment that the fans and all connected with St Mirren will be feeling with this news.

The club would like to place on record its thanks to Kyle for all the contributions he made in his time at St Mirren and wish him the very best for his future.

St Mirren were cruelly defeated by Aberdeen as Lewis Ferguson's injury time effort sealed a 2-1 win for the Dons.

Ethan Erhahon's first league goal had given Saints the lead before Marley Watkins levelled for the home side. With time ebbing away Ferguson netted in injury time from just outside the box to win it for Aberdeen.

Marley Watkins raced through and managed to shrug off Conor McCarthy. He found himself at the byline but his attempted cut-back was blocked by Jak Alnwick before McCarthy got clear. 

Alnwick was called into action again four minutes later when he made a good save to deny Scott Wright from the edge of the area. Niall McGinn was on to the follow-up but McCarthy put his body on the line to block what looked likely to be the opener. 

Alnwick was busy again as the Saints goalkeeper got down well to push away Lewis Ferguson's powerful 20 yard drive on 18 minutes. 

Saints were well in the match and went close twice in the space of a minute on the half-hour mark. Lee Erwin sent Jon Obika on his way with a flick on from Alnwick's goal kick. The forward held of the Dons defence to go through but Aberdeen's Tommie Hoban did well to block Obika's effort and send it wide. Then, moments later, a Cammy MacPherson strike was deflected just over Joe Lewis' cross bar.

Erwin was causing Aberdeen problems and went close himself on 37 minutes when he was found in space at the back post. The striker met the ball but his effort, from a tight angle, was held by Lewis.

Jim Goodwin would have been asking for more of the same at the break and Saints' positive performance was met by a goal nine minutes into the second-half. St Mirren Youth Academy graduate Ethan Erhahon scored his first league goal for Saints with an unbelievable strike from distance. The 19 year-old met MacPherson's touch and rattled it into the top corner from 22 yards with Lewis rooted to the spot. 

It was no less than Saints deserved with Aberdeen boss Derek McInnes making changes by bringing on Connor McLennan and Ryan Edmondson for Scott Wright and Niall McGinn. The changes seemed to spark the Dons into life and they levelled with less than 20 minutes to go when Marley Watkins drove home from just inside the box after a near bit of play from the home side.

Saints looked like they were about to earn a well-deserved point but Ferguson's injury time effort cruelly snuck beyond Alnwick to give Aberdeen all three points.

Full-Time: Aberdeen 2-1 St Mirren

St Mirren: Alnwick, Shaughnessy (c), McCarthy, Sheron, Obika, MacPherson, McGrath, Morias, Fraser, Erwin, Erhahon
Subs Not Used: Lyness, Jamieson, Durmus, McAllister

Aberdeen: Lewis, Hoban, Considine, McGinn (Edmondson 63), Hedges (McGeouch 90), Taylor (Anderson 87), Hayes, Ferguson, Wright (McLennan 63), McCrorie, Watkins
Subs Not Used: Cerny, Logan, Ojo, McGeouch, Hernandez, MacKenzie

Referee: Gavin Duncan
Assistant Referee: Graeme Leslie
Assistant Referee: Graham Chambers
Fourth Official: Alan Muir

St Mirren make the journey to Aberdeen on Friday night to face the Dons at Pittodrie in the Scottish Premiership.

Match Details

Aberdeen v St Mirren
Competition: Scottish Premiership
Date: Friday 2nd October
Kick-off: 7:45pm
Venue: Pittodrie Stadium

Can I watch the match?

Season ticket holders and UK & Ireland based St Mirren TV subscribers will be able to listen to live audio commentary on tv.stmirren.com or alternatively they can watch the match for £12.99 as part of Aberdeen's pay-per-view offering.

International subscribers to St Mirren TV will be able to watch the match live as part of their subscription. 

Last season

Saints faced Aberdeen four times last season - winning one, drawing one and losing twice. 

Ilkay Durmus' first St Mirren goal gave the Buddies a first league win over Aberdeen since 2011 when the sides met for the first time last season.

Aberdeen won 2-1 when Saints travelled to Pittodrie in November, with Tony Andreu missing a late penalty which would have grabbed a share of the spoils for Jim Goodwin's side.

Neither side could be separated when the Dons visited Paisley in January as the game finished 0-0. 

The last meeting of the two came at the end of February in the quarter-finals of the Scottish Cup with Lewis Ferguson and Sam Cosgrove scoring in a 2-0 win for Aberdeen.

Manager's thoughts

"It will be a difficult game. I think they have only had one slip-up all season against Motherwell where they were comfortably beaten.

"I believe that any team is capable of beating any other team on a given day and if we play as well as what we are capable of then we've got as good a chance as Motherwell had.

"We have to do more in the attacking third and we have to be more of an attacking threat and that's what we are going to try and impose.

"The boys are in good spirits and looking forward to it."

Who are the officials?

Gavin Duncan is referee for Friday night's match with Graeme Leslie and Graham Chambers as the linesmen. Alan Muir is the fourth official. 

The Renfrewshire Health & Social Care Partnership (HSCP) has opened a flu vaccination centre at St Mirren Park for those in Renfrewshire eligible for the flu vaccination. 

The flu centre is located in the West Stand with access available at Drums Avenue gate. 

Every year in Scotland, thousands of people are hospitalised with flu. It can be serious and life threatening, so getting vaccinated is the safest and most effective way to protect yourself.

With COVID-19 still with us and cases on the increase, it is vital that people's safety is the highest priority. The facility at St Mirren Park will enable the HSCP to manage the increased number of people they need to vaccinate this year, while giving them more ability to safely control the flow of people through the vaccination process. 

St Mirren Chief Executive Tony Fitzpatrick visited the facility this morning to receive his vaccination. He said: "St Mirren Football Club is delighted to make St Mirren Park available to Renfrewshire Health & Social Care Partnership for its flu vaccination programme. 

"Having the flu centre located at St Mirren Park will allow the Renfrewshire Health & Social Care Partnership to provide the safest possible way to deliver their service in these difficult times."

For more information on the flu centre please visit http://www.renfrewshire.hscp.scot/Flu 

Below: Tony receives his vaccination at the St Mirren flu centre

St Mirren Football Club can confirm it has rejected a substantial offer for Kyle Magennis from Hibernian Football Club.

A St Mirren Youth Academy graduate, Kyle has made over 100 appearances for Saints since his debut in 2016; helping us achieve promotion to the Scottish Premiership in 2018 and maintaining our top flight status. In June of this year Kyle was named club captain such is the esteem he is held at within St Mirren.

While Kyle is currently ruled out with by injury, he remains an integral part of our football club and we have no desire to sell. We look forward to welcoming him back into the squad in the very near future.

Saints' disappointing run of form continued as Kilmarnock consigned them to a fifth successive defeat at a sun-soaked Paisley.

The decisive moment came as the half hour mark approached, Killie making their possession dominance count when Chris Burke's cross was converted by Nicke Kabamba.

Lee Erwin had hit the bar for Saints before the goal but the hosts rarely looked like finding an equaliser, while the returning Jak Alnwick had a fairly quiet game at the other end aside from a fine stop from Ross Millen early in the second half.

Alnwick was one of four changes made to the side that lost at Tannadice a week ago, with Junior Morias, Ilkay Durmus and Cammy MacPherson also coming into the side. That meant Jon Obika and Kyle McAllister dropped to the bench, with Richard Tait suspended. The Killie defence was packed with former Buddies including goalie Danny Rogers and defenders Kirk Broadfoot, while Andy Millen was in the technical area with son Ross on the field.

Killie had plenty of possession in the opening quarter but it was Saints who had the better of the chances. When a visiting corner was cleared to Morias, he released but he perhaps let the angle get a bit too tight before dragging a shot wide of the far post. The winger was the provider for the Buddies' next opportunity as his corner found Erwin and his header appeared to be tipped onto the bar by Rogers, however the officials gave a goal-kick.

Kilmarnock's crosses had been causing a few problems for the Saints defence and it was from one of those that they took the lead. The ball was worked out wide to Burke and when he put it into the danger area Kabamba was there to sweep home. Saints tried to respond and Rogers failed to hold Jamie McGrath's corner but Joe Shaughnessy poked the loose ball over the bar. The Ayrshire side had a chance to double their lead just before the break but Burke curled his free-kick from the edge of the box well over the bar.

Jim Goodwin made a double change at the break, Obika and Nathan Sheron coming on for Foley and McGrath. Before they could do anything, the visitors nearly added a second, Millen finding Greg Kiltie and his shot was superbly tipped behind by Alnwick, the goalie comfortably dealing with Broadfoot's header from the corner that followed.

Marcus Fraser was then perhaps a bit fortunate to escape with a yellow card when he caught Millen in the chest with his studs, the contact unintentional as the Saints fullback tried to bring the ball under control.

Dylan Connolly replaced Durmus as the hour mark approached and the change did give Saints a bit more attacking intent but chances were few and far between at both ends. McAllister replaced Ethan Erhahon for the final 10 minutes and Saints had a penalty shout turned down soon after when Broadfoot clearly caught Shaughnessy as they jostled at a corner, however ref David Munro was unmoved.

In stoppage time, Connolly did well to dig out a cross but neither Obika or Morias were able to connect and any hope of salvaging a point was gone.

Full-Time: St Mirren 0-1 Kilmarnock

St Mirren: Alnwick, MacPherson, Shaughnessy, McCarthy, Fraser, McGrath (Obika 45), Foley (Sheron 45), Erhahon (McAllister 82), Durmus (Connolly 60), Morias, Erwin
Subs Not Used: Urminsky, Jamieson

Kilmarnock: Rogers, Millen (Rossi 90), Broadfoot, Findlay, Waters, Power, Dicker (c), Kiltie, Tshibola, Burke (McKenzie 72), Kabamba
Subs Not Used: Doyle, McGowan, Haunstrup, Dikamona, Whitehall, Pinnock, Cameron 

Referee: David Munro
Assistant Referee: Calum Spence
Assistant Referee: Drew Kirkland
Fourth Official: David Lowe

Saints are back in action this Saturday as we host Kilmarnock at St Mirren Park for a Scottish Premiership match-up.

We have a limited edition run of programmes, published in partnership with Curtis Sport, for the behind closed doors Scottish Premiership fixture played on Saturday 26th September.

This issue is a 32 pager with a £3 cover price.

This latest edition includes the following:

Front Cover – Jak Alnwick.
Jim Goodwin - The thoughts of the St Mirren gaffer on the matches since his side's last home outing and his take on the upcoming fixture against Killie.
The Opposition – Taking a look at Alex Dyer's Kilmarnock side.
Last Time Out – A look back to 29th December last year when Saints and Killie last met.
St Mirren Programme Archive - Derek Drennan reviews the programme for the match between Saints and Kilmarnock from 4th October 1980.
Centre Page Poster – Nathan Sheron.
Player Kit Sponsors 2020/21 – Check in to see who is sponsoring your favourite player's shirt for the season.
Marketing Matters – Campbell Kennedy updates on the latest events and happenings at the club's Commercial Department.
Yesterday's Saints – David Cochran looks back on the St Mirren career of Tottie Beck.
Football Bloody Hell - Alan Gallacher talks about how he is missing going to football in the coronavirus era.
St Mirren Fixtures & Results 2020/21 – A handy reference page of all the fixtures and results for this season.
Team Lines – The two squads and match officials for Saturday's match.

To buy this issue or to place your programme subscription for the 2020/21 season click HERE.