Buddie Banter: St Mirren are making all the right noise off the pitch, now it's time for boss and players to deliver on it

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Tell me something good.The song that’s been reverberating around the heads of most St Mirren fans after the club’s epic away strip launch was also a fitting question for Stephen Robinson after the club were unceremoniously dumped out of the Premier Sports Cup by League One side Airdrie.Tell me something good about that performance on Tuesday night.Because let’s be honest, there was very, very little to inspire the Buddies faithful heading into a tough Premiership campaign that starts in just over a week.With Hibs and Aberdeen ploughing money into their squads, and Hearts, Dundee United and Motherwell also investing as they prepare for European adventures, there’s every chance the battle for the top six this season is going to be much more fierce than last time around.That’s why it’s imperative that St Mirren find some sort of rhythm heading into their opening league clash against Motherwell next weekend.Off the field the Buddies couldn’t be much more on song at the moment.Getting Saints fan and Scottish DJ star Ewan McVicar involved to help launch the wonderful new away kit was a masterstroke.The design of the kit itself, with a heavy nod to the club’s Paisley roots, also struck the right note with the supporters.So much so that the first batch of the sleek new black strips sold out in record time, prompting the club to order a new delivery to replenish stocks.There was even better news yet to come as academy star Dylan Reid turned down Celtic’s tempting approach to stay with the Buddies.The 17-year-old decided he had a better chance of progressing his career in Paisley than with the Hoops B team, which was music to every fan’s ears including club legend Tony Fitzpatrick - who predicted he’ll go on to skipper the Saints