St Mirren's match against Renfrewshire rivals Morton on Tuesday 2nd January has been selected for live coverage on BBC ALBA.

However, the Buddies' first match of 2018 will remain on the same date with the same kick-off time (3pm). 

The full details for the fixture are as follows:

Morton v St Mirren
Ladbrokes Championship
Cappielow Park, Greenock
Tuesday, 2nd January 2018
Live on BBC ALBA, 3:00pm kick-off

A gallery of pictures from St Mirren's 2-1 win over Brechin City on Saturday.

The Buddies returned to the top of the Ladbrokes Championship after a hard-fought win over the Angus side. 

Cammy Smith opened the scoring for Saints on 14 minutes. before ex-St Mirren youngster Kalvin Orsi pulled Brechin level before half-time.

Saints grabbed a winner on 78 minutes when substitute Dale Hilson was quickest to react to a John Sutton knock down. 

The win saw St Mirren extend their record breaking winning streak at the Paisley 2021 Stadium to eight matches and leapfrog Dunfermline to go top of the league. 

Gallery pictures by Allan Picken © - Allan Picken Photography

Jack Ross speaks to stmirren.com in the wake of the Buddies 2-1 win over Brechin City at the Paisley 2021 Stadium. 

The Saints manager gives his thoughts as goals from Cammy Smith and Dale Hilson see St Mirren make it eight home wins in a row and return to the top of the Ladbrokes Championship. 

St Mirren returned to the top of the Ladbrokes Championship with a hard fought 2-1 win over Brechin City.

The Buddies extended their winning run at the Paisley 2021 Stadium to eight matches as goals from Cammy Smith and Dale Hilson helped see off the stuffy Angus side. 

Jordan Kirkpatrick, making his first league start for the Buddies, registered the first real chance on goal when his low effort on 10 minutes was deflected out for a corner.

A neat bit of play nearly yielded the opener 13 minutes in when a terrific cross-field pass from Ian McShane found Liam Smith galloping up the right side. He swung in a tremendous ball that found Stephen McGinn but the captain's touch was heavy, denying himself a chance to get a shot away. He turned back and found Lewis Morgan who had a go from the edge of the area. His shot was deflected into the path of Cammy Smith whose low effort was held by the Brechin goalkeeper.

Just a minute later though the Buddies were ahead. A nice ball over the top from McGinn was met by Cammy Smith who side-footed the ball beyond Graeme Smith to draw first blood. 

Saints may have taken the lead but struggled to find their groove. Connor McLennan sent two shots wide for the visitors while Stelios and Morgan had efforts blocked and saved. 

Brechin were level seven minutes before half time through ex-Saint Kalvin Orsi. The striker, who left the Buddies in the summer, stooped down to meet a deep cross from Jordan Sinclair to nod beyond Craig Samson. 

Saints reacted well to going behind with Stelios charging forward, the ball eventually finding Lewis Morgan whose shot was sent by for a corner. Jack Baird climbed above the City defence to get on the end of it but headed over.

Half Time: St Mirren 1-1 Brechin City

Even after the break, the Buddies failed to reach the levels that supporters have become accustomed too over recent times at the Paisley 2021 Stadium. But the home side could have restored their lead early into the second half when a searching ball from McGinn almost found Stelios on his own inside the box.  

Saints were piling forward in the hopes of getting back in front, but had to be wary of the threat Brechin were posing on the break. Another ex-Saint, Ally Love, sent an effort just by the post before Liam Smith had to clear a McLennan shot off the line. 

Jack Ross made his final sub on 76 minutes when John Sutton replaced Gavin Reilly. St Mirren were trying to ramp things up in the search of a winner and it looked certain that birthday boy Morgan would add to his tally for the season when he was found in space inside the box. The winger lashed a fierce shot goal-bound with Graeme Smith showing strong hands to push it away. 

It looked like it was just set to be one of those days for Saints. But then, just a few moments after Morgan's chance, St Mirren had a winner. A clearance from Liam Smith found Cammy Smith on the half way line. He drove forward before sending a reverse ball through to substitute Ross Stewart who burst into the box. He raced to the touchline before clipping the ball onto the head of Sutton. The experienced striker got in ahead of his man to flick the ball into the path of Dale Hilson. The winger gambling to get in ahead of the Brechin defence, getting a toe to the ball to slide it into the back of the net for his first St Mirren goal.

With Dundee United defeating Dunfermline at East End Park, the win means St Mirren return to the top of the Ladbrokes Championship with a meeting against League One leaders Raith Rovers in the IRN-BRU Cup to come next week. 

Full Time: St Mirren 2-1 Brechin City 

St Mirren: Samson, L.Smith, Baird, McCart, Stelios (Hilson 67), McGinn, McShane, C. Smith, Kirkpatrick (Stewart 52), Morgan, Reilly (Sutton 76)
Subs Not Used: Stewart, Irvine, Buchanan, Duffy, Sutton

Brechin: G. Smith, McLean, Dyer, McGeever, Dale, Graham, Spark, McLennan (Layne 84), Orsi (Love 63), Crighton, Sinclair (Watt 77)
Subs Not Used: P. O'Neill, Fusco, C.O'Neill

Referee: Gavin Duncan
Assistant Referee: Alan Mulvany
Assistant Referee: Chris McTiernan

Attendance: 3,928

St Mirren welcome bottom side Brechin City to the Paisley 2021 Stadium tomorrow aiming to make it eight home wins in a row. 

The Buddies' record breaking winning run at the Paisley 2021 Stadium continued with last weekend's 3-1 triumph over Queen of the South. 

That win saw St Mirren move back up to second place, a point behind league leaders Dunfermline and a point above third placed Dundee United. 

It's been a tough start to the season for newly promoted Brechin who came up via the promotion play-offs. After seeing off Raith Rovers on penalties in the play-off semi-final last season, they defeated Jim Goodwin's Alloa in the final - also on penalties - to join the first division for the first time since 2006. 

Darren Dods' side began the season with an opening day loss away to Queen of the South. However, a week later, they gained a creditable point against Livingston as they came from 2-0 down to draw 2-2. Ex-St Mirren U20s player Kalvin Orsi, a summer signing for City, was on the scoresheet before Finn Graham levelled. 

Since then they have only picked up a point over their next five league matches - a 1-1 home draw with Falkirk. Again they came from behind with Graham's second half goal cancelling out Alex Harris' opener. Despite only one point from those five games they did run promotion candidates Dundee United close at Tannadice in August, with the Tangerines needing an 80th minute strike from Scott McDonald to secure three points. 

St Mirren have a strong record against Brechin with 25 wins in 33 games and six wins from the last six. Brechin's only win against Saints in competitive football came at Glebe Park in January 2004 as they won 2-0. 

Saints last match against Brechin in any competition came in the Scottish Cup in December 2012. The Buddies overcame the Angus side at the Paisley 2021 Stadium with goals from Kenny McLean and a stunning volley from Jon Robertson giving St Mirren a 2-0 win. 

The last time the two squared off in league action was in 2006 with Saints well on their way to securing promotion to the then Premier League. John Sutton was the hat-trick hero as the Buddies ran out 3-0 winners at Glebe Park to extend their lead at the top of the table by 11 points.  

Saints are still without Adam Eckersley who serves the final game of his two-match ban, while Josh Todd is out after dislocating his shoulder in last weekend's match against Queen of the South. Long term absentees Kyle Magennis, Harry Davis and Gary MacKenzie remain out.

Tomorrow's match gives St Mirren the chance to further extend the winning run at home and results elsewhere could see Saints return to the summit of the Ladbrokes Championship. Meanwhile, Brechin will be desperate to take a major scalp and pick up their first league win of the campaign in a bid to climb off the bottom spot. 

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 Championship match against Brechin City, is a 48 pager with a £3 cover price.

The latest edition includes the following:

Front Cover – Gregor Buchanan.
The Gaffer - St Mirren manager Jack Ross with his thoughts on recent matches and his pre-match message for the fans.
Buddies News Update – News of the latest happenings in and around the Paisley 2021 Stadium.
Last Time Out – Match report and pictures of the recent Championship match against Queen of the South.
The Opposition – Brian Corry runs the rule over Saturday's visitors, Darren Dods' Brechin City side.
Hall of Fame – David Cochran highlights the ever St Mirren XI.
Action Shot (Centre Pages) – Lewis Morgan.
Last Time Here – A pictorial look back to 1st December 2012, the last time Saints faced Brechin City.
Fans Corner – Ticket prices, travel clubs update, match info and dates for fans to keep in their diary.
Matchday Gallery – Pictures from the post-match presentations in the corporate suite after the recent home match against Inverness Caledonian Thistle.
Kit Sponsors 2017/18.
Football, Bloody Hell – Alan Gallacher talks about the transfer saga of Chelsea's Diego Costa.
Marketing Matters – Commercial Manager, Campbell Kennedy brings us up to date with all the commercial activities within the Club.
St Mirren Fixtures & Results 2017/18 – A handy reference page of all the fixtures 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 2017/18 season click HERE.

If you live outside the UK & Ireland, St Mirren TV is your way to watch Paisley’s top football side 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 Paisley 2021 Stadium when Brechin City are the visitors on Saturday afternoon.

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

St Mirren vs Brechin City
Ladbrokes Championship
Venue: Paisley 2021 Stadium, Paisley
Date: Saturday 30th September 2017
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

We are giving fans the opportunity to vote for the man of the match and also put two lucky fans in with the chance of winning a £10 voucher for the Club Shop.

Every home game we’ll throw open the voting on the 60 minute mark for 20 minutes where votes can be cast on Facebook and Twitter. All you have to do is use the hashtag #SMFCMOM followed by the name of the player you are voting for, eg ‘#SMFCMOM MORGAN’.

With 10 minutes of the game remaining all the votes will be counted then the Stadium Announcer will confirm the winning player over the tannoy system.

From all the fans who nominate the winning player one will be picked at random from the Facebook account and another from the Twitter account and they will each be awarded a £10 voucher for the Club Shop. The winners will be notified through the account they posted from.

So get yourself ready on the hour mark of Saturday’s game against Brechin City and get voting with #SMFCMOM.

Paisley Panda is all set for Saturday’s match against Brechin city as he gets ready to host the ever-popular match day competition ‘Bung a Baw’.

To take part in ‘Bung a Baw’ fans need to purchase a small foam ball which is numbered and they will then have a chance to throw their ball towards our club mascot Paisley Panda in front of the Family Stand. Each person will have 60 seconds to do this and the winner will be the person who has thrown the ball closest to the feet of the Panda with the winner being confirmed over the PA system.

The competition is sponsored by The Linwood Farm Restaurant who are supplying a family meal voucher as the prize for the contest winner.

Each ball will cost £1 to buy. The balls will be available from sellers inside the Family Stand in the 30 minutes leading up to kick-off and then again in the first 5 minutes of half-time before the competition starts (subject to availability). Each ball is numbered and participants will also get a ticket with the corresponding number which they will use to claim the prize if they win.

Paisley Panda confirms that ‘Bung a Baw’ continues to be very popular so he advises that you get in early tomorrow to purchase your ball to take part.

As well as taking care of ‘Bung a Baw’ Paisley Panda will be giving away sweets to the kids in and around the stadium courtesy of the Black and White Army website.

Paisley Panda has also teamed up with the St Mirren Club Shop so you will be able to buy hats and scarves for the game from the 'Bung a Baw' stands.

Paisley Panda is pleased to confirm that ‘First Scorer’ will be back for tomorrow's game against Brechin City.

‘First Scorer’ gives fans the opportunity to predict in advance of the game who they think will score St Mirren's first goal in Saturday’s match against The City.

The winner will be picked at random from those who guessed correctly and they will win a bag of a dozen doughnuts which will be delivered to your seat right after the goal is scored!

To enter all you have to do ahead of the game is post your prediction of the first St Mirren scorer on Facebook or Twitter using the hashtag #Saints1stgoal. The lucky winner will then be contacted to confirm which stand they will be in with the row and seat number so that the prize can be delivered to them.