St Mirren FC Charitable Foundation in conjunction with SPFL Trust are delighted to announce they will be hosting a Festive Friends event within the stadium on Christmas Day.

Festive Friends is a wonderful community program created to accommodate elderly people, and those in need, who will be isolated and alone on Christmas Day.

The fun-filled festivities will commence at 12 noon where all of our senior Buddies will be shown into the 1877 lounge, we will have live music & games, some Saint's legends dropping by to share fond memories of St Mirren's history, the provision of a delicious Christmas dinner and a visit from father Christmas & helpers to give all a hand made gift.

St Mirren FC Charitable Foundation wish to invite all of the fans, local community, business partners and friends to nominate individuals they wish to attend the event and nominations are now open, simply email gayle.brannigan@stmirren.com to enter.

To add to the magic and ensure the success of the day we will require small Christmas gifts to be donated and also additional funds to be raised. The more funds we raise and the more gifts we receive the more nominations we can accept.

Should you wish to donate a gift or volunteer as helper or driver on the day please email gayle.brannigan@stmirren.com or call us on 0141-889-2558 ext 6124 and we will provide you with more details.

Jon Obika and Danny Mullen were on the scoresheet as their goals gave St Mirren a 2-0 win over St Johnstone at the Simple Digital Arena on Saturday. 

The forwards notched their first league goals of the season, with Jon grabbing his first in the Black and White of Saints, to give the Saints an important three points and a first league win since August.

Much has been made of the Buddies lack of goals, with Jim Goodwin's side heading into Saturday's match as lowest scorers in the league.

But now both are off the mark, they believe it's time to use Saturday's win as a springboard moving forward.

"This will be the benchmark now," Jon told stmirren.com post-match.

"I feel, especially the forwards, we kind of owe it to the boys because we have been defensively fantastic.

"It's feels good to score and also get the three points which is the main thing. That's what you play for - to help your team and get those goals."

Danny echoed Jon's sentiments saying: "It’s always good to get a goal especially after the start we’ve had. 

"We didn’t start great but we came into the game and when we went ahead we managed the game well and saw it out professionally.

"Overall it was a good day. We’ve scored two goals and we’ll look to keep that up when we go to Kilmarnock."

Obika's opener was a thing of beauty as the English striker acrobatically put Saints in front with an overhead kick on 37 minutes.

"I just felt it stayed in the air for long and I'm just glad I connected with it," he said.

"In training we always practice finishing and the boys had been on fire this week. Again that is the benchmark and we always have to go out and attack."

Both Danny and captain Stephen McGinn, who made his return to the side following an injury to Ryan Flynn, admitted they were happy for Jon to get off the mark, with McGinn praising the quality of both goals and the team's overall performance.

"Jon scored a fantastic goal," the skipper said.

"I'm delighted for him - I thought he was unplayable.

"When we got our noses in front I thought we looked like a really good side.

"I thought the two goals were brilliant," he continued. "Kirk [Broadfoot] does great for Jon and then it's all about the big man's athleticism.

"The second goal is something we work on all the time. Sometimes in training it feels a bit false but when you get it right you can see how good it can work."

Tickets are on-sale for St Mirren's trip to Rugby Park to face Kilmarnock in the Ladbrokes Premiership this Saturday (26th Oct).

Jim Goodwin's side travel to Ayrshire to face Killie on the back of a 2-0 win over St Johnstone at the Simple Digital Arena on Saturday.

St Mirren fans will be housed in Block 2 & 3 of the Chadwick Stand at Rugby Park.

The match and tickets info is as follows:

Kilmarnock vs St Mirren
Ladbrokes Premiership
Venue: Rugby Park, Kilmarnock
Date: Saturday 26th October 2019
Kick-off: 3:00pm

Prices

Adult - £22

Concession (Over-65/U21/students*) - £17

Under-16 - £5

* - Students must show a valid matriculation card when purchasing concession tickets.

Wheelchair/ambulant disabled will be charged at the appropriate price above with free carer.

Tickets will be available at Rugby Park on the day of the game.

Please note that the drum will be permitted entry as long as Kilmarnock are allowed to search it and it also must be of a size that can be comfortably fitted through a turnstile.

Regarding flags, Kilmarnock allow banners to be fastened to unused blocks of seating, however, they are not permitted entry if on sticks or without proof of a fire retardant label. 

The Ticket Office hours for the remainder of the week are as follows:

Thu, Oct 24th - 10:00am - 2:00pm & 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Fri, Oct 25th - 10:00am - 2:00pm
Sat, Oct 26th - CLOSED
Sun, Oct 27th - CLOSED

St Mirren Ticket Office Tel: (0141) 840-6130.

St Mirren Ticket Office E-Mail: tickets@stmirren.com

A gallery of pictures from our matchday hospitality in the Westmarch Suite following Saturday's win against St Johnstone in the Ladbrokes Premiership.

Thanks to our match sponsor Kennedy Fashion and match ball sponsor Cruden Building & Renewals Ltd for their support.

Please note that hospitality is sold out for our next home match against Ross County on November 23rd. 

A delighted Jim Goodwin gives his reaction to the Buddies 2-0 win over St Johnstone at the Simple Digital Arena this afternoon.

St Mirren ended the long wait for a goal and the even longer wait for a victory with a win against St Johnstone at the Simple Digital Arena.

The Buddies produced two goals of real quality to end the drought that stretched more than three games. The first was just before the break when Jon Obika opened his St Mirren account with a cracking overhead kick.

That was a fine individual goal, the second was a tremendous sweeping move. Kirk Broadfoot played the ball out wide to Paul McGinn and the fullback whipped in a great cross that was thumped into the top corner by Danny Mullen. There was still half an hour to go but after that setback the Saintees rarely looked like producing a comeback.

Paul wasn't the only McGinn in the home line-up as brother and skipper Stephen made his first appearance since the Betfred Cup group game against East Kilbride three months ago. He replaced Ryan Flynn, who missed out with an Achilles' injury, with Tony Andreu coming in for Ilkay Durmus. Stevie May led the St Johnstone attack with Matty Kennedy and Drey Wright offering support.

The opening stages weren't great despite Murray Davidson firing an early rasping shot wide. A rare piece of neat passing play allowed Anthony Ralston to get a shot in with Stephen McGinn in the right place to clear it. Jason Holt then looped a shot onto the roof of the net before there was a minute's applause to pay tribute to Buddies fan Steven Ingram, who recently passed away. Soon after that ended the visitors almost took the lead, Danny Swanson seeing his initial shot blocked by Broadfoot but the ball fell kindly for Kennedy, who should have done better than shoot wide.

The home Saints had posed little attacking threat but had a penalty shout turned down when Mullen was kicked in the head by a flying boot. It seemed to spur the home side on, goalie Zander Clark having to be alert to tip away Kyle Magennis' corner, before the goal drought finally came to an end. With the Saintees defence rather hesitant to mop up after a free-kick, Broadfoot headed the back back across goal for Obika to thunder a spectacular overhead kick past Clark that was in the net before he'd even seen it. Not a bad way to bag your first goal in the stripes! The visitors tried to respond before the interval, Vaclav Hladky doing well to parry Ralston's shot.

Andreu was denied by Clark just after the break as the Buddies looked to double their advantage before Mullen went agonisingly close to doing just that. Obika's tremendous flick-on found his strike partner and he lifted the ball past the hesitant Clark but was relieved to see it hit the far post and bounced to safety.

St Johnstone had done little after the break but had a decent penalty shout turned down when Kennedy went down at the end of a mazy dribble. It was a rare foray forward and the home Saints made their pressure pay soon after in fantastic style.

It soon got even harder as St Mirren bagged a tremendous second. Broadfoot fed the ball out wide to Paul McGinn and he delivered a delicious first time cross that was emphatically tucked away by Mullen for his first goal of the season.

It was the striker's last involvement as his afternoon was then cut short by injury, Junior Morias replacing him. May failed to trouble Hladky with a couple of efforts as the Perth Saints tried to reduce the deficit before Morias went close to adding a third, leaving two defenders on their backsides before shooting straight at Clark. Another chance came when Obika slipped Foley in behind the visiting defence but he tried to square to Andreu rather than go himself and played the ball behind his team-mate. It didn't prove costly, Kennedy shooting over from miles out in stoppage time pretty much summing up how the second half had gone for the visitors.

Full-Time: St Mirren 2-0 St Johnstone

St Mirren: Hladky, P.McGinn, Broadfoot, McLoughlin, Waters, S.McGinn (c), Magennis, Foley, Andreu (Durmus 84), Obika, Mullen (Morias 66)
Subs Not Used: Lyness, MacKenzie, MacPherson, Breadner, Djorkaeff

St Johnstone: Clark, Ralston, Kerr (c), Duffy, Tanser, Holt (McCann 76), Davidson, Kennedy, Swanson (Hendry 59), Wright (O'Halloran 59), May
Subs Not Used: Parish, Vihmann, Booth, McCann, Wotherspoon

#SMFCMOM - Jon Obika

Referee: Nick Walsh
Assistant Referee: Frank Connor
Assistant Referee: Craig Ferguson
Fourth Official: Andrew Dallas

Attendance: 4,791 (499 away fans)

Gallery pictures by Allan Picken © - Allan Picken Photography

Saints are back in action following the international break as we host St Johnstone at the Simple Digital Arena tomorrow.

FORM

St Mirren currently occupy 11th place - one point above tomorrow's opponents.

The Buddies have picked up five points from the opening eight league matches after a 1-0 win over Aberdeen in August and 0-0 draws with both Hamilton and Hearts. 

 Jim Goodwin's side come into tomorrow's match on the back of a 2-0 loss away to Motherwell before the international break.

St Johnstone sit bottom of the table having yet to win a league match this season.

Tommy Wright's side have drawn four of their eight league matches, picking up their points against Livingston (2-2), Hibernian (2-2), Aberdeen (1-1) and Ross County (2-2).

Three of their four points have come on the road, with the Perth Saints having only lost one of four away league matches this season - a 7-0 defeat at Celtic Park on the opening day of the season.

PREVIOUS

St Mirren and St Johnstone squared off four times last season with the Perth Saints winning three of the four meetings.

There were two wins at McDiarmid Park for St Johnstone (2-0, 1-0) and a win in Paisley on Boxing Day 2018 (1-0). 

Danny Mullen's last minute volley sealed at point at the Simple Digital Arena in a 1-1 draw the last time the two teams faced each other.

St Mirren's last home win against St Johnstone came in 2013 as the Buddies came out on top in a seven-goal thriller.

TEAM NEWS

Cody Cooke is back in training for the Buddies, but tomorrow's match comes too soon for the English striker. 

Kyle McAllister remains out with a back injury that forced him to miss the match against Motherwell before the international break.

MANAGER'S THOUGHTS

"It's going to be a really difficult game against St Johnstone who are a good side and it's a really important game for us.

"Tommy Wright's teams are renowned for their organisation and their hard work and I expect nothing different at the weekend.

"I watched a few of their games back last week. Although they lost 1-0 at home to Motherwell recently I thought they deserved to win the game. They created more opportunities, had more shots on target and created the more clear cut chances on the day.

"I certainly believe there are things we can exploit in the St Johnstone defence but I think we need to be very wary of them in an attacking perspective as well. They have some really good attacking players, some very dangerous players and they've got good pace in the team as well.

"We will have to be as organised and as switched on as we have been defensively at home, but hopefully we can exploit the weaknesses that we think are there and use that to our advantage at the weekend."

St Mirren Football Club is delighted to announce that Cammy MacPherson has signed a two-year extension to his contract that sees him tied to the club until summer 2022.

The St Mirren Academy graduate made his Saints debut at the age of 18 as a substitute in a 2-0 away win against Dundee in the Scottish Cup in January 2017.

The 20 year-old has gone on to make 28 appearances for the Buddies and scored his first goal for the club in a 2-1 defeat at home to Aberdeen in December 2018.

Speaking on the new deal, Cammy said: "I'm really happy and to get it done now I couldn’t be any happier.

"I want to get into the team and if I can get into the team I want to be able to keep myself there and become a mainstay.

"I feel like I have matured a lot and grown a lot since I made my debut. I’m much more used to the demands of first team football."

St Mirren manager Jim Goodwin said he was "delighted" to have Cammy signed up to an extended contract.

"Cammy is a player who has come on leaps and bounds," he told stmirren.com.

"We were humming and hawing during the summer about whether we should send Cammy out on loan but he really impressed us with his attitude and how he trains.

"He’s a great kid," he continued. "He does things in the right manner and is a very good professional. We are delighted to have extended his contract.

"He’s a big part of what we are trying to do here. He’s got great energy, really good fitness levels, fantastic technically and has a little bit of aggression."

Our match day programme, published in partnership with Curtis Sport, will be available from the Club Shop ahead of Saturday’s game.

This issue, for the Ladbrokes Premiership fixture against St Johnstone, is a 52 pager with a £3 cover price.

This latest edition includes the following:

Front Cover – Ilkay Durmus.
The Gaffer - Jim Goodwin looks back on recent games and ahead to the match-up with St Johnstone.
SMDSA - A message from the St Mirren Disabled Supporters Association.
The Opposition – Brian Corry gives the lowdown on Tommy Wright's St Johnstone side.
St Mirren Programme Archive - Derek Drennan reviews the programme for Saints' centenary match against Liverpool on 12th December 1977.
New Signing: Ross Turner - Meet Ross who won the chance to join the squad at the end of the season awards dinner last May.
100 Seasons at the Top - Cairters Corner reflects on the St Mirren players who lost their lives over the course of World War One.
They Played in the Stripes – David Cochran looks back on the St Mirren career of John Young.
Matchday Gallery - Pictures from the corporate suite post match presentations from the recent home match against Hearts.
English Title Winners - Liam Harding looks back on Kenny Dalglish's Blackburn Rovers side who clinched the English Premiership title in 1994/95.
Centre Page Poster – Jonathan Obika.
Fans Corner - Ticket prices, travel clubs update, match info and dates for fans to keep in their diary, Mascot Profile and Fan's Music Pick.
Player Kit Sponsors 2019/20 – Check in to see who is sponsoring your favourite player's shirt for the season.
Panda's Fun Page – Some puzzles to keep the youngsters entertained during the half-time break.
Football Bloody Hell - Alan Gallacher tries to figure out Stevie Clarke's best XI for the Scottish National side.
Stats and Picture Quiz - Player appearance stats for the season and picture quiz on St Mirren goalkeepers.
Marketing Matters – Campbell Kennedy updates on the latest events and happenings at the club's Commercial Department.
SMiSA - The latest from the St Mirren Supporters' Trust.
St Mirren Fixtures & Results 2019/20 – 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 2019/20 season click HERE.

If you live outside the UK & Ireland, St Mirren TV is your way to watch Paisley’s Premiership club live in action each and every home match day.

This service, which is delivered by media students from the University of the West of Scotland, will cover all of St Mirren’s home games.

As usual the St Mirren TV team will be presenting all the action from the Simple Digital Arena when St Johnstone are the visitors for Saturday's Ladbrokes Premiership match.

If you want to tune in here is the info you will need:

St Mirren vs St Johnstone
Ladbrokes Premiership
Venue: The Simple Digital Arena, Paisley
Date: Saturday 19th October 2019
Kick-off: 3:00pm BST

To access this match day service:

1 Day Pass – €6.99 EUR
Season Pass – €69.99 EUR

To view Terms & Conditions and get started with St Mirren TV please click HERE.

For technical support with St Mirren TV please e-mail tvsupport@stmirren.com