St Mirren picked up a point and extended the gap over bottom side Dundee to three points after a 1-1 draw with Hamilton Academical at the Hope CBD Stadium.

The Buddies arguably had the better of the match but fell behind on 63 minutes when Steven Davies opened the scoring for the visitors. Saints fought back though and were level just three minutes later when Anders Dreyer scored his first St Mirren goal from the penalty spot. Both sides had chances to win the game but in the end had to settle for a share of the spoils.

St Mirren shot towards the 1,700 strong Saints contingent in the first half and should have been ahead with just five minutes on the clock. Good pressure from Paul McGinn on Scott McMann allowed Brad Lyons to pick up on a loose ball. The midfielder had the goal gaping but took one touch too many allowing McMann to recover and get the tackle in before Lyons shot over at the second attempt.

Saints were adamant they should have had a penalty on 23 minutes when Anders Dreyer was wiped out in the box by Ziggy Gordon. The Danish forward had skipped into the box and sent a low ball across before being taken out. The Buddies were furious but referee John Beaton decided the challenge was fair. 

Hamilton could have found themselves ahead five minutes later only for Vaclav Hladky to come to Saints' rescue. A loose clearance from Jack Baird was picked up on by Darian MacKinnon. The midfielder slotted a lovely through ball into Steve Davies who spun away from Baird, but Hladky made himself big to turn the effort wide.

St Mirren spurned a glorious opportunity to take the lead with five minutes of the half remaining. Simeon Jackson did well to get in ahead of Ziggy Gordon to win the ball and laid it off to Lyons who charged through on goal. The midfielder had Danny Mullen in space inside the box, but looked in two minds as he elected to go it alone and stabbed the ball wide. 

Hladky was alert at the start of the second half as he turned an Aaron McGowan shot from the angle off the post just two minutes after the interval. 

Indeed, Accies were brighter in the second half than they had been in the first and Hladky again made a good stop to deny Mickel Miller's effort with Ethan Erhahon on the line to turn away George Oakley's follow up effort. 

Hamilton took the lead on 63 minutes. The Saints defence failed to clear their lines allowing Tony Andreu to whip a ball into the box where it met Davies. The forward got in front of his defender flicked home via the post with his left foot. 

It was frustration for Saints who would have felt they should already have been ahead in the match. But the reaction was good from Oran Kearney's charges as they found themselves level just three minutes later. Anders Dreyer was felled inside the box by Ziggy Gordon and this time referee John Beaton pointed to the penalty spot. The Dane stepped up to take and sent Accies goalkeeper Gary Woods the wrong way to restore parity. 

Both sides had a go to try and find a winner but the only clear cut chance for either came in the dying embers when Hladky made a wonderful stop to push away Oakley's volley with Baird on the line to clear away Andreu's header after the Frenchman had Hladky beaten. 

Full Time: Hamilton 1-1 St Mirren

St Mirren: Hladky, P.McGinn (c), Popescu, Baird, Muzek, Erhahon, Lyons (S.McGinn 69), Flynn, Dreyer, Jackson (Cooke 84), Mullen (McAllister 59)
Subs Not Used: Holmes, Ferdinand, Hodson, MacPherson

Hamilton: Woods, McGowan, McMann, Gordon, Kilgallon, Gogic, MacKinnon, Mimnaugh (Martin 67), Davies (Ogkmpoe 71), Oakley, Miller (Andreu 59)
Subs Not Used: Fulton, Sowah, Keatings, McMillan

Referee: John Beaton
Assistant Referee: Graham Chambers
Assistant Referee: Andy Milne
Fourth Official: Greg Aitken

Attendance: 3,096 (1,726 St Mirren fans)

Gallery pictures by Allan Picken © - Allan Picken Photography

St Mirren boss Oran Kearney gives his reaction to today's 1-1 draw with Hamilton Academical in the Ladbrokes Premiership.

St Mirren Football Club can confirm it has been issued with a fast track notice of complaint for striker Duckens Nazon by the Scottish Football Association for an alleged incident in Wednesday's match against Celtic at the Simple Digital Arena.

Duckens has been cited for an alleged breach of Disciplinary Rule 200.

A hearing will take place on Tuesday where an outcome will be reached.

A gallery of pictures from the Westmarch Suite following our match against Celtic in the Ladbrokes Premiership on Wednesday night.

Thanks to our match sponsor University of the West of Scotland and match ball sponsor Imperial Commercials for their support.

Gallery pictures by Allan Picken © - Allan Picken Photography

Tomorrow afternoon (Saturday 6th April) St Mirren make the trip to Lanarkshire for a Ladbrokes Premiership match-up with Hamilton Academical at the Hope CBD Stadium.

The info on Travel Clubs heading to the Hope CBD Stadium for the match is as follows:

Tile Bar Supporters Bus

The bus for Hamilton will leave Abercorn Street at 1:45pm.

Two seats are still available on the bus.

Bus tickets are available from the bar.

Chivas Travel Club

Our bus for the game at Hamilton will leave the Court Bar at 2:00pm.

Bus tickets are on sale now from behind the bar.

North End Travel Club

The bus to Hamilton will leave The Sneddon at 2:00pm.

Our bus is now sold out for this match.

Cockles Wilson Supporters Bus

If you would like to travel on the bus please contact Fraser Burns on Facebook or twitter.

 Ambulant disabled supporters are charged at the appropriate age price with a free carer if required.

Cash gates will be 7, 8 & 9 and 10, 11 & 12 will be for pre-paid tickets and comps only.

Tickets for this match are on sale from the St Mirren Ticket Office.

The St Mirren Ticket Office (Main Stand) opening hours in the build up to this match are as follows:

Fri, 5th Apr: 10:00am to 2:00pm
Sat, 6th Apr: CLOSED

Ticket Office Phone No: (0141) 840-6130.
St Mirren Ticket Office E-Mail: tickets@stmirren.com.

Additional Information for Travelling Fans

On Saturday (6th April), St Mirren make the trip to Lanarkshire to face Hamilton Academical in a Ladbrokes Premiership match-up at the Hope CBD Stadium.

The referee on Saturday is John Beaton and he will be assisted by Graham Chambers and Andy Milne. Fourth Official will be Greg Aitken.

Following the success of our family entertainment initiatives on match days at the Simple Digital Arena, we would like to give families the opportunity to travel to an away game on an official family supporters bus for our upcoming match away to Hamilton Academical.

A small number of seats are still available on the family supporters bus for the Hamilton game on Saturday (6th April).

The bus will leave from the stadium at 1:45pm with tickets priced at £5 per person (crisps and juice included). 

Tickets can be purchased from the stadium reception or by emailing colin.bright@stmirren.com. 

Once again we are giving St Mirren fans the chance to ‘live the dream’ while helping out the Youth Development Programme at the same time.

Two teams – one home and one away – made up of St Mirren fans will kick-off our annual fixture that will be played on the pitch at the Simple Digital Arena on Sunday 19th May with a 12pm kick off. 

There will be two teams with 16 players per team (1-11 and five substitutes).  Each shirt will be available to bid on in a blind auction with all proceeds going to the St Mirren Youth Development Programme. 

Special guests will be announced in due course.

Come and be part of this exciting day which will include:-

* The St Mirren Match Day Experience – playing the game on the pitch at the Simple Digital Arena.

* Wearing an official team strip that you will also get to keep after the game.

* Match filmed.

* Medal presentation to all players.

* Food and refreshments post match.

The rules are as follows: 

*You must be 18 years of age or over to both bid and take part in 'Saint for a Day'. 

*By bidding on the auction you are declaring that you (or the person you are bidding for) are fit and well to take part in the event. 

*In the instance of getting two identical bids for the same shirt number in the same team, the email that has the earliest date and time stamp will be accepted as the leading bidder. 

*Payment must be made immediately if you have been the successful bidder.

*Payment not made by match day will see shirts given to other bidders.

To have a chance to take part on the day please send your blind auction bid by filling out this form. (Minimum bid is £125). Good Luck!!

St Mirren were beaten 2-0 at home to Ladbrokes Premiership leader Celtic.

Goals either side of half-time from Timothy Weah and Ryan Christie were enough to give the visitors all the points. 

Oran Kearney made six changes to the side that defeated Dundee on Saturday as Laurentiu Corbu, Anton Ferdinand, Cammy MacPherson, Stephen McGinn, Jim Kellermann and Cody Cooke coming in for Paul McGinn, Gary MacKenzie, Brad Lyons, Ryan Flynn, Anders Dreyer and Danny Mullen. 

Pre-match Saints gaffer Kearney told BBC how it was important to start the game well, but it was the hosts who started the brighter. They should have been ahead on 10 minutes when a Callum McGregor through ball found Kristoffer Ajer of all people. It was perhaps nosebleed territory for the Norwegian centre-half who sent his effort over. 

The Hoops took the lead just four minutes later. Mikael Lustig's shot spun up for Timothy Weah who headed off the cross bar. It was hard to tell whether it had crossed the line with Kearney questioning fourth official David Lowe, but the goal was given and Celtic led. 

Neil Lennon's side had a glorious opportunity to double that lead five minutes later when Oliver Burke was found in space inside the Saints box, but the forward somehow smashed wide from close range.

The visitors were on top and looked like they would double their advantage when Jim Kellermann was penalised for a handball after Emilio Izaguirre's cross into the box. Olivier Ntcham stepped up but his effort was blocked by Saints goalkeeper Vaclav Hladky before the rebound crashed off the bar and over.

Hladky, who was named as Saints' man of the match, had to be alert at the start of the second half after Oliver Burke had jinked by the Buddies defence to make his way into the box but the Czech goalkeeper made a good stop.

There were warning signs for Saints but the Buddies were still only 1-0 down and started to grow into the game almost finding ourselves level when Cody Cooke found space on the edge of the Celtic box and curled low towards the right corner. Scott Bain made a terrific save to turn the ball behind for a corner.

Laurentiu Corbu, on his first St Mirren start, sent the ball in where Cooke headed on to the back post but Duckens Nazon couldn't force home.

Nazon really should have gotten Saints level when he found himself one-on-one with the Celtic goalkeeper just before the hour mark. Kellermann had been fouled by Scott Brown in the middle of the park and the Buddies were awarded a free kick. Mihai Popescu caught out the Celtic defence as he took it quick and found Nazon clear on goal. But as the Haitian striker broke into the box, he checked back and the ball was smothered by Bain who had rushed off his line.

Ryan Christie came on as a substitute for the visitors and twice went close to extending their lead. The first saw him denied by Hladky on 66 minutes before fizzing a shot from the edge of the box just over the bar eight minutes later.

It was Christie who sealed the points though with just five minutes to go. It was neat bit of play between the forward and McGregor before his effort deflected off Popescu from just inside the box found its way past Hladky. 

Saints had a final chance to pull a goal back but substitute Paul McGinn's shot was cleared off the line. 

Up next for the Buddies is Hamilton on Saturday at the Hope CBD Stadium.

Full Time: St Mirren 0-2 Celtic

St Mirren: Hladky, Corbu, Baird, Ferdinand, Popescu, Muzek, S.McGinn (c) (Lyons 64), MacPherson, Kellermann (P.McGinn 76), Cooke, Nazon (Jackson 71)
Subs Not Used: Holmes, McAllister, Dreyer, Mullen

Celtic: Bain, Lustig (Benkovic 70), Ajer, Simunovic, Izaguirre, Brown (c), Ntcham (Christie 63), McGregor, Forrest, Weah (Edouard 78), Burke
Subs Not Used: De Vries, Toljan, Sinclair, Rogic

#SMFCMOM - Vaclav Hladky

Referee: Don Robertson
Assistant Referee: Andrew McWilliam
Assistant Referee: Graham McNeillie 
Fourth Official: David Lowe

Attendance: 6,597

Saints gaffer Oran Kearney gives his thoughts on the Buddies' 2-0 loss to Celtic at the Simple Digital Arena tonight.