The end of the season is fast approaching with The Buddies only having six home league matches remaining this campaign. 

Our next home game is Saturday 24th February when Brechin City come to visit the Paisley 2021 Stadium and we have a fantastic hospitality package on offer.

Enjoy the build up to the game in the fantastic Westmarch Suite with a view onto the pitch where you will enjoy a superb meal and drinks service from the bar.

Post match the Suite will be visited by the sponsors Man of the Match and members of the first team squad.

Hospitality @ Paisley 2021 Stadium

St.Mirren v Brechin City

24th February 2018

Kick-off 3:00pm

Guests will enjoy the following:

• Arrive 12:30pm
• Private car parking facility 
• Enter through the exclusive Hospitality Suite entrance
• Glass of chilled bubbly on arrival
• Hostess table service
• Three course meal complemented by fine wines with main course
• Accreditation in the match day magazine
• Exclusive match day competitions
• Match day magazine & corporate team sheets
• Exclusive Q&A with match day ambassadors
• Exclusive seating in Main Stand
• Half-time hot & cold snacks served with tea or coffee
• Post match presentations by the match sponsors Man of the Match
• Post match visit to the lounge by players
• Inclusive drinks package both pre & post match*
• Last Orders 5:30pm
• Hospitality concludes 6:00pm

Cost per person                   £85.00 + VAT (drinks inclusive)*
Season Ticket Holder            £70.00 + VAT (drinks inclusive)*
Cost per person                   £65.00 + VAT (pay bar)
Season Ticket Holder            £50.00 + VAT (pay bar)
Children                              £40.00 + VAT

Adult Season Ticket Holders £15 discount applicable to Season Ticket Holders only, seat details are required when booking to get discount

To reserve your package contact Commercial Manager, Campbell Kennedy on 0141 840 1337, email commercial@stmirren.com or order online.

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Lentil soup served with petit pan

*****

Chicken chasseur with medley of veg and potato gratin

Macaroni and cheese with garlic bread (Vegetarian)

*****

Chocolate torte choc pencil

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Freshly Brewed Tea & Coffee

Just three days later, St Mirren then host Falkirk at The Paisley 2021 Stadium on Tuesday night. 

Hospitality @ Paisley 2021 Stadium

St.Mirren v Falkirk

27th February 2018

Kick-off 7:45pm

Guests will enjoy the following:

• Arrive 5:15pm
• Private car parking facility 
• Enter through the exclusive Hospitality Suite entrance
• Glass of chilled bubbly on arrival
• Hostess table service
• Three course meal complemented by fine wines with main course
• Accreditation in the match day magazine
• Exclusive match day competitions
• Match day magazine & corporate team sheets
• Exclusive Q&A with match day ambassadors
• Exclusive seating in Main Stand
• Half-time hot & cold snacks served with tea or coffee
• Post match presentations by the match sponsors Man of the Match
• Post match visit to the lounge by players
• Inclusive drinks package both pre & post match*
• Last Orders 10:15pm
• Hospitality concludes 10:30pm

Cost per person                     £75.00 + VAT (drinks inclusive)*
Season Ticket Holder             £60.00 + VAT (drinks inclusive)*
Cost per person                    £55.00 + VAT (pay bar)
Season Ticket Holder            £40.00 + VAT (pay bar)
Children                              £30.00 + VAT

Adult Season Ticket Holders £15 discount applicable to Season Ticket Holders only, seat details are required when booking to get discount

To reserve your package contact Commercial Manager, Campbell Kennedy on 0141 840 1337, email commercial@stmirren.com or order online.

MENU

Tomato and basil soup served with petit pan

*****

Steak & ale pie with roast potatoes and medley of seasonal veg

Roasted vegetable filled filo basket (Vegetarian)

Fish goujons with chips (Children)

*****

Profiteroles served with fresh cream

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Freshly Brewed Tea & Coffee

With all other hospitality packages for the season now sold out these matches will be your last chance this season to sample our hospitality. Don't miss out! 

Livingston have confirmed that next weekend's match at the Tony Macaroni Arena will be pay-at-the-gate.

The Buddies travel to West Lothian a week on Saturday to face third placed Livingston in the Ladbrokes Championship.

St Mirren have already won at The Tony Macaroni Arena this season when Gavin Reilly's double helped Saints to a 3-1 win back in August.

The prices and match details for this match are as follows:

Livingston vs St Mirren
Ladbrokes Championship
Venue: Tony Macaroni Arena, Livingston
Date: Saturday 17th February 2018
Kick-off: 3:00pm

Ticket Prices

Adult - £20
Concessions* - £12
Under 16s - £5

*over 65, 17-18, registered disabled and full-time students with valid proof

**Anyone requiring a wheelchair ticket can contact the Ticket Office on 0141-889-2558. 

The St Mirren Ticket Office opening hours for next week are as follows:

Mon, Feb 12th - 10:00am - 2:00pm
Tue, Feb 13th - 10:00am - 2:00pm
Wed, Feb 14th – 10:00am - 2:00pm
Thu, Feb 15th – 10:00am - 2:00pm
Fri, Feb 16th – 10:00am - 2:00pm
Sat, Feb 17th – CLOSED
Sun, Feb 18th - CLOSED

St Mirren Ticket Office Tel: (0141) 889-2558

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

A week on Saturday (17th February) St Mirren head to West Lothian for a Ladbrokes Championship fixture against Livingston at the Tony Macaroni Arena.

The info on Travel Clubs heading to the Tony Macaroni Arena is as follows:

North End Travel Club

The bus to Livingston will leave The Sneddon at 1:00pm.

This bus is now sold out.

Chivas Travel Club

The bus to Livingston will leave at 1:30pm from the Court Bar.

Bus tickets are now on sale from the Court Bar.

Cockles Wilson Supporters Bus

The bus for the Livingston game will leave at 1:30pm..

This bus is now sold out.

Tile Bar Supporters Bus

The bus to The Tony Macaroni Arena will leave at 1:30pm.

Bus tickets for non members will be available from the bar from Saturday 10th February.

St Mirren captain Stephen McGinn believes that St Mirren's 3-2 win over Queen of the South in December was the catalyst for their excellent run of form.

The Buddies extended their lead at the top to 14 points after a 2-0 win over Queen of the South on Saturday - a win that saw Saints make it 8 wins from their last 9 in the league. 

But it was the win at Palmerston in December which the skipper feels helped St Mirren push on. 

It's a run that has saw Jack Ross pick up the Ladbrokes Championship Manager of the Month award two months in a row, while McGinn picked up Player of the Month for January.

Speaking to the press after the award, the captain said: "We had a really tough afternoon against Dumbarton at the start of December and since then we've not looked back.

We've really taken off and made it hard for the teams below us to keep up with us and just delighted with the way things are going. 

"The game that stands out for me in the recent run is Queen of the South away. 2-0 down after five minutes at a really tough venue it was almost the making of the recent run we've been on. You look at each other and ask who is willing to dig in to pull out a result. The way we did that I think after that day you really start to believe in the people around you.

"You respect that teams have still got games in hand, we've still got to play each team in the league again, so you don't want to dip. I've been in the game long enough to know once you get into a rut it's hard to get out it. We just need to try and avoid that, keep doing what we are doing and keep being as clinical as we have been." 

Much has been written about The Buddies excellent form in the latter part of last season's campaign which saw the side come from being eight points adrift at the bottom of the league in February to completing the great escape and securing Championship survival.

McGinn admits the last 12 months have been a dream and says captaining the side to promotion would be hugely gratifying if Saints get over the line. 

This time last year we'd just been to Dumbarton and drawn 2-2 and had a massive game to come at Somerset [against Ayr United] in the league.

"It's the sort of stuff that you probably couldn't have made up. If you were asked to dream about a scenario it would have been this. It's been an amazing 12 months. It's been such a strange one as well because there is really not been any time to enjoy it. It'll be amazing to look back on it in a few years if we can get over the line. 

"It was a lot harder to look at the league last season," he continued. "It was hard when you were looking above you and you're needing results to go your way. I always go back to the day we won at Queen of the South last season and I think Ayr had won at Dunfermline and Raith had won at home.

"In situations like that it is really tough and the chase is far tougher than being chased. It's in our hands. We know it's lovely to look at the table and we know if we win enough games till the end of the season we'll get to enjoy looking at it more often. 

"I've been in situations in my career where you can't buy a win and you don't know where your next win is coming from. For us it's the other way and it's been almost like that since last January. Any game we've lost since then we feel as if we've let ourselves down and we've not been at our best. It's an amazing habit to get into especially at home.

"The boys absolutely love playing at home because we win games here. Any time we've dropped points here it's been almost a catastrophe. It's a horrible feeling leaving here having not won because we are so used to winning here. We just need to keep ticking games off, keep adding points to our total and if we do that we know we'll be hard to catch. 

"When I left it was a good Premier League club. It was really threatening the top six, getting to semi-finals of national competitions. I'd be really proud to be part of taking the club back to that level." 

Buddievision subscribers can watch Stephen's press conference here.  

St Mirren manager Jack Ross was named the Ladbrokes Championship Manager of the Month yesterday, after picking up 10 points out of 12 in the month of January.

The team have been in fine form over the New Year period, going on a nine game unbeaten run in the league. But The Saints’ gaffer doesn’t fear his team will get ahead of themselves.

It was the second month in a row that the gaffer has picked up the award and he said: "I know people always say ‘how to do you stop players from getting carried away’ or ‘make sure their feet are on the ground’, but what I have here is a group I’ve worked, in the main, with over the last year.

Obviously we’ve had some change in personnel, but a good core of them that have been here.

"The good thing is there has been a consistency in our approach, when we were bottom of the league and now we’re top of the league, we do the same things. We prepare in the same way, we work in the same way.

"The players trust that method of working, so for us going into this period, it’s reassuring for me as a manger that they’ll not look to do anything differently and they know I wont do anything differently.”

Ross is also keeping his own feet on the ground and insists he isn't phased by the prospect of potentially managing in the Premiership next season, if his side are able to hold on to first spot in the Scottish Championship. St Mirren currently sit 14 points ahead of second place club Dundee Utd.

He continued: "I don't really think too much about it, simply because - and I'm not saying you don't ever allow yourself to think further ahead - I just love managing full stop.

I love this job; I loved the job when we were bottom of the league, I love the job now, I loved the job when I was at Alloa. I just really enjoy doing it."

"I enjoy the the challenge of games week in week out. I enjoy the problem solving aspect of it, I enjoy trying to find a way to win games and I enjoying working with my players. If that happens to come with us progressing to a different league, and different challenges, then brilliant. If it doesn't I'll still enjoy it."

Buddievision subscribers can watch the manager's full press conference along with Stephen McGinn's here.  

Join us on Friday 9th March 2018 in the Westmarch Suite at The Paisley 2021 Stadium for our Annual Academy Fundraiser Night.

The aim of the evening is to raise funds for our highly acclaimed Academy and facilitate the ongoing commitment we have to our successful youth programme .

The evening will kick off with a glass of bubbly on arrival before sitting down to a superb two course meal after which you will be entertained by Jamie King McArthur 'The King of Swing' one of the busiest and highly regarded young performers on the circuit who will perform a mix of classic Rat Pack and swing hits to current chart hits followed by a DJ set that will keep the dance floor full all night long.

The evening will also include a superb raffle and Grand Auction with all funds raised going towards the Academy.

Tickets for the event are sure to sell quickly and are available priced as follows:

• £36 (minimum booking two people on a shared table)
• Table of ten £360

All prices are inclusive of VAT.

To book your place please contact Commercial Manager, Campbell Kennedy direct on 0141-840-1337, email commercial@stmirren.com, email Claire Coventry claire.coventry@stmirren.com or download the booking form here.

Please note that time slots have become available this week for the following times, at the St Mirren Airdome;

- Tuesday 6th Feb 7.30-8.30pm & 8.30-9.30pm

For further information and to book the dome please contact St Mirren in the Community on 0141-889-2558.

Please note that football centres at the St Mirren Airdome are OFF this weekend (10th and 11th February) due to the mid term break.

Centres at the dome will resume on the week beginning Monday 12th February.

Please note that football centres at the following venues are OFF due to the mid term break;

Arkleston Primary School (Tuesday 6th and 13th February)

Ralston Primary School (Wednesday 7th and 14th February) 

Gryffe High School (Friday 9th and 16th February)

Liam Smith got off the mark for St Mirren this week, with an audacious effort from outside the box that whistled past Queen of the South Goalkeeper Alan Martin on the third minute.

Saints ran out 2-0 winners, with Harry Davis scoring from the penalty spot after Smith's early opener enough to secure The Buddies' 17th league win of the season.

Speaking to Buddievision, Smith said: "I've played quite a few games now, but it's not something that comes around very often for me. I was pleased, and glad to eventually get the three points as well.

"The boys were giving me a bit of stick as well, saying they don't think they have ever seen it from me either - in training or that. It was a nice finish, so I'm pleased with it."

The Saints increased their unbeaten run in the league to nine games, and even managed to stretch their lead at the top of the table to 14 points after Saturday's victory. Jack Ross' side have only failed to win at home twice this season; drawing 2-2 with Morton  in October and losing 1-0 to Dumbarton at the beginning of December.

Smith believes that on their day, nobody can beat them. He said: "When we play well, there's no team in this league that can match us.

"I think teams know coming here, with our record, that if they don't score the first goal then it's going to be a tough afternoon for them.

"And I think that was evident, we took the game by the scruff of the neck and played well."

 The Scotland under-21 star has been on loan at St Mirren from Hearts since the beginning of the season, and with Man of the Match performances like Saturday, it's no wonder he is becoming a favourite with the Paisley fans.

"I just want to be consistent in my performances and I think so far I've done that. If I keep doing that then hopefully we'll end up top of the league come the end of the season." 

Tickets for St Mirren's trip to Tannadice to face Dundee United on Friday 2nd March will go on sale at 10:00am tomorrow (Tuesday 6th February) from the St Mirren Ticket Office and online.

The ticket prices and match details for this match are as follows:

Dundee United vs St Mirren
Ladbrokes Championship
Venue: Tannadice Park, Dundee
Date: Friday 2nd March 2018
Kick-off: 7:45pm

Ticket Prices

Adult - £20
Concessions (over 65, under 18 and full-time students with valid proof) - £10

Anyone requiring a wheelchair ticket can contact the Ticket Office on 0141-889-2558. 

The St Mirren Ticket Office opening hours for this week are as follows:

Tue, Feb 6th - 10:00am - 2:00pm
Wed, Feb 7th – 10:00am - 2:00pm
Thu, Feb 8th – 10:00am - 2:00pm
Fri, Feb 9th – 10:00am - 2:00pm
Sat, Feb 10th – CLOSED
Sun, Feb 11th - CLOSED

St Mirren Ticket Office Tel: (0141) 889-2558

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

A gallery of pictures from St Mirren's 2-0 win over Queen of the South in the Ladbrokes Championship on Saturday.

Liam Smith scored his first St Mirren goal on four minutes with a superb strike into the top corner from 25 yards to put The Buddies ahead.

Harry Davis made it 2-0 from the penalty spot just after the half hour mark to give Saints another valuable three points.

Gallery pictures by John Millar © - Millar Pictures