We are delighted to announce that Jack Ross has been named Ladbrokes Championship Manager of the Year. 

The Buddies gaffer added the award to the PFA Scotland Manager of the Year award he earned a few weeks ago. 

It's been a fantastic season for the club and the manager, with Jack helping lead us to the Ladbrokes Championship title and promotion back to the Premiership. 

All at St Mirren Football Club are saddened to hear that former Official Website Webmaster, Kenny Pointon passed away on Saturday morning after a two year battle with cancer.

Kenny, along with his wife Karin, set up the club's first official website in 2000 with Kenny continuing his role as Webmaster up till the summer of 2016.

Former official website editor, Norrie Jamieson said of Kenny: "Kenny was inventive with his design of the website and helped push the club towards being one of the first football clubs to work with a database driven website.

"His work at St Mirren had him in demand by other clubs also as he was often approached for help and advice in the early days of internet mania when clubs were looking to get an online presence secured. Something Kenny was more than happy to help out with.

"Kenny will be a loss to all who knew him".

Away from St Mirren, Kenny worked as a structural engineer and was well regarded within his field. He and Karin eventually tied the knot in 2011 and lived in Elderslie up till Kenny's illness.

All at St Mirren Football Club pass on our condolences to Karin and Kenny's family at this sad time for their loss.

Once the funeral arrangements are confirmed we will relay the details.

Following St Mirren Chief Executive Tony Fitzpatrick’s visit to Valencia last November manager Jack Ross and James Fowler were recently invited by the club's partners inspiresport's Head of Sales for Scotland, Jed McCabe to visit inspiresport's exclusive club Valencia CF.

Jack and James were invited in behind the scenes of the world famous Mestalla Stadium and had a look at how Valencia went about their business from the academy through to the first team.

They also had the chance to watch several academy teams train ranging from U6s to U19s along with access to watch the reserve and first team train.

One of Valencia's coaches Toni Navarro took the time to show Jack and James behind the scenes at the academy - sharing the club's philosophy and academy structure along with how they go about scouting the best players in Spain and their pathway to the first team.

Due to the links initially forged by Tony’s visit last November and now cemented by Jack and James recent visit the link between St. Mirren, inspiresport and Valencia is becoming stronger.

The club would like to provide an update on the contractual status of Gavin Reilly and Harry Davis.

Gavin has been offered a new deal with the club and we are awaiting his decision.

Harry was offered a contract extension, however, he has turned this down after indicating he plans to return to England for family reasons.

The club would like to offer its best wishes to Harry and thank him for his contributions to the club over the last 18 months.

With season tickets going on sale on May 22nd, we can now confirm the match day ticket prices for the 2018/19 season.

MATCH DAY TICKETS (2018/19)

*Carer free if proof provided that disabled person received higher rate of PIP for mobility

MATCH DAY TICKETS – Cat A Games (Celtic/Rangers)

We also announced that season tickets for the South Stand would not be valid for matches against Celtic and Rangers and that supporters with a season ticket in that stand would be eligible to purchase reduced tickets for these matches in the Main and West Stands.

We can confirm the reduced prices are as follows:

Cammy Smith thanked Jack Ross after he awarded St Mirren FC Player of the Year at the Player of the Year awards dinner on Saturday night.

The forward had an incredible season with the Buddies - scoring 13 goals, including 10 in the league, on the way to winning the Ladbrokes Championship.

After being named the club's official Player of the Year, alongside winning Goal of the Season, the Black & White Magazine Player of the Year and St Mirren Fans Council's Young Player of the Year, Cammy said: "Obviously, I’m absolutely delighted. I’m surprised as well.

I have tried to be as consistent as I can over the course of the season and playing week-in week-out has helped that.

"I have to thank the manager for that. He has been brilliant with me.

"I remember this time last year being at the awards and sitting with the boys, with McGinn going up, Stevie Mallan going up, big Gary MacKenzie going up.

"I knew there was a chance of me coming back.

"It wasn’t 100 per cent, but I wanted to be the one going up there this season. You have got to be a bit selfish. But it was a really proud moment going up there.

"It has been a good season for me, the team has done really well and I couldn’t have asked for much more.

Cammy opened the scoring in a 2-1 win over Dunfermline in January as he was on the end of a wonderful team move.

It was a goal that earned him Goal of the Season award, alongside a nomination for PFA Goal of the Season and the approval of Barcelona.

Cammy says it's no coincidence the Buddies scored such an impressive goal.

We work a lot in training about patterns of play and I think it was no fluke that we scored a goal like that.

"The build-up from Liam Smith into McGinn, then myself and Lewis Morgan made it a really good goal, for a team at any level.

"For us to score that, in a really big game, showed the quality and the personality of our team.

"It is probably one of the hardest places to go in the Championship, so for us to go there on a Friday night showed the confidence in this team.

"This side has that in abundance, from the manager through to the staff and the players, we have that sort of character."

St Mirren Football Club are delighted to announce that Gary MacKenzie has signed a one-year contract extension. 

The 32 year-old has made 55 appearances in his two seasons with the Buddies and signs up for our upcoming Premiership campaign.

Speaking on Buddievision after completing the deal, MacKenzie said: "It's a good time to be around the place.

"When I spoke to the manager a few weeks ago he told me he wanted me to stay and there was never any doubt I would still be here. It's a good place to be.

"The journey we have come on with the club over the last couple seasons has been quite remarkable.

"I think to look to continue that into next year is something that is really exciting and I think that speaks for group as a whole and we're all really looking forward to the challenge next season."

The thoughts and prayers of everyone connected with St Mirren Football Club are with our former manager, Sir Alex Ferguson and his family following Saturday's news.

Sir Alex underwent emergency surgery yesterday for a brain haemorrhage.

Manchester United confirmed that the procedure went very well but he will require a period of intensive care to optimise his recovery.

The annual St Mirren Player of the Year awards dinner took place at a packed Normandy Hotel in Renfrew last night.

More than 500 Buddies turned out to celebrate what has been an incredible season for the club.

It was a special night for Steven Thompson who took his rightful place in the St Mirren Hall of Fame. The striker scored 54 goals in 180 appearances for the Saints including the second goal in our 3-2 triumph over Hearts in the League Cup final in 2013. Steven was inducted by his good friend, and fellow St Mirren Hall of Fame inductee, Barry Lavety. 

Cammy Smith was named as the club's official Player of the Year, while he also picked up the Black & White Magazine Player of the Year, the St Mirren Fans Council's Young Player of the Year and Goal of the Season awards. 

Stephen McGinn was voted for as the stmirren.com Player of the Year, while Kyle Magennis was named as the club's official Young Player of the Year. 

Gallery pictures by Allan Picken © - Allan Picken Photography

With promotion now official we are actively beginning to plan for life back in the Premiership next season.

Everything that we have achieved to date has been built on the premise of a return to the top flight. That brings a lot of excitement, but it also presents some operational challenges that we have not had in the Championship.

One of those challenges is how best we segregate our stadium on Premiership matchdays.

Segregation Arrangements for Season 18/19

We have looked at all the available options for segregation next season with the dual aim of maximising our match day revenue to give us the best possible budget to compete in the Premiership but also bearing in mind the massive influence our incredible home support has had in achieving our success this season.

The obvious and probably best financial model open to us was to revert to the previous arrangement of allocating away fans in the North Stand and allocating W6 and W7 in the West to the larger away supports, however we felt that we had to explore other options to allow us to maintain the exclusive use of the West stand for our own supporters, an arrangement which has been a great success this season.

We investigated the option of building a temporary stand in the corner between the South and West stands to house our singing section but due to sightline restrictions and prohibitive costs this was unfortunately ruled out.

We examined attendance data for our previous home matches with Celtic and Rangers and found that attendances in the South Stand were significantly lower than on other match days, potentially for a whole variety of different reasons.

And so we explored the option of selling a reduced price season ticket for the family stand which would cover all home games with the exception of those featuring Celtic and Rangers. We believe this represents the best plan for us going forward but appreciate it is not without its challenges.

Our plan is to give all away fans the full use of the North Stand.

For games involving Celtic and Rangers those visiting teams will also be allocated full use of the South Stand.

Season tickets for the South Stand will be reduced in price to reflect this arrangement.

The West and Main Stands will once again be St Mirren fans only for ALL matches.

Priority booking will be given to South Stand season ticket holders who wish to relocate to either the Main or West Stands for fixtures involving Celtic and Rangers and these tickets will be at a heavily discounted rate.

We appreciate that there will be season ticket holders who have sat in the South Stand since day one so I would like to apologise in advance for any potential upheaval this will cause, but rest assured this is a decision we have not taken lightly and one we are taking with the best intentions of our club at heart. The additional six figure sum the club will bring in from this is vital in helping us build a squad capable of competing in the Premiership.

We feel that this strikes a balance between maximising our income and ensuring that we provide a safe and enjoyable atmosphere for our own fans.

W7 Singing Section & Safe Standing

Fans will of course be able to buy season tickets for anywhere within the West Stand but please bear in mind that W7 will be very much the home of the singing section again next season.

We have also started down the road of introducing some form of safe standing area in W7.

We have had discussions with Celtic, safe seating suppliers, and held preliminary talks with both the SPFL and our local council.

This will not be something that happens next season but it is something we are looking at very seriously and will continue to investigate.

We'll have more news on season tickets including price and date of sale here on stmirren.com at the beginning of next week.