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Celtic – but he warned it will take silly money to snap up the Paisley playmaker.

St Mirren midfielder agreed a new two-year deal on Friday, fresh off the back of grabbing his first start for the club against Ross County.The 19-year-old has been in the first team squad having impressed in training since returning from an indifferent loan spell at Clyde in the first half of the season.While the modest kid paid his way out of his initiation song on the way to Pittodrie earlier this year, he’s desperate to make his mark on the first team, having signed a new deal with the club he’s been with since the age of nine.He told Express Sport: “I’m absolutely buzzing and it was really good to sign the deal.

Jim Goodwin insists he won’t rush striker Kristian Dennis back into Saints’ starting XI. That’s because the Buddies boss doesn’t want to see him join Ryan Flynn back on the treatment table.Dennis has had to make do with substitute appearances since returning from an Achilles’ tear earlier than anticipated.

Scottish Cup sting and get the Saints fans jumping up from their sofas tonight.The Buddies welcome the in-form Caley Jags to Paisley this evening hoping to book themselves an appealing quarter-final clash with either Kilmarnock or Montrose.Fraser insists the Saints won’t be taking Neil McCann’s Championship side lightly, especially given they knocked out his old side Ross County in the previous round.Nevertheless, he’s desperate to give the Paisley club’s supporters something to shout about after nearly an entire campaign locked out of the SMISA Stadium.He told Express Sport: “We need to be wary of Inverness and their strengths.“It is a chance to go on another run, but the manager’s been stressing to us that Inverness are a good side and

Livingston. St Mirren take on in-form Inverness Caley Thistle in Paisley tomorrow night hoping to seal a safe passage through to the last eight of the Scottish Cup.

Join thousands of others in getting the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox.A Paisley mother is battling to help save the life of her son who needs a pioneering live liver operation.The race is on to send 35-year-old John McCallum to Germany in a “last chance” to save him from cancer.The cost is £220,000 - but his mum Elaine revealed they’re now at more than £95,000.John is from a well-known Paisley family and Elaine, a former maths teacher in the town, said: “I am hoping Paisley Buddies can help us keep John with us.“He and most of the family are loyal St Mirren fans, despite us moving to Linlithgow.”The young dad has two daughters and is clinging to the hope he can watch them grow-up.The clinical trial operation in

Motherwell goalkeeper Liam Kelly harnessed hours of practice with a young Premier League star to finally end Jamie McGrath’s incredible penalty streak. The St Mirren midfielder was yet to miss from 12 yards in his previous eight attempts this season until Kelly stepped up to save the Irishman’s effort on Saturday at Fir Park.

St Mirren defender Conor McCarthy hopes a strong Scottish Cup run will help ease the pain of missing out on an historic top six spot. While the young centre back admits beating Hamilton this afternoon won’t totally erase the suffering Saints have felt since missing out on a top half finish, he believes it would go some way to rescuing the end of their season.

St Mirren goalkeeper Jak Alnwick, who believes the club will benefit massively from their top six miss heartache.The Buddies have relied on Alnwick’s heroics to save their bacon more than once this season.But even he couldn’t pull off a miracle stop to deny Hamilton’s David Munro a devastating equaliser that put paid to the Paisley club’s top half ambitions for this season.Alnwick insists he and his young teammates will learn from their errors.And while he hopes their top six hopes don’t hinge on their last game again next season, he’s confident the Saints would enjoy a better outcome even if they did.Speaking exclusively to Express Sport, he said: “Every part of football is a learning curve.“I’ve had to suffer relegation on the last day of

St Mirren are doing all they can to tie down their key players - but admits some may move on this summer.Several of the Buddies big hitters, including Jake Doyle-Hayes, Marcus Fraser and Ilkay Durmus, are all yet to sign on the dotted line to commit to stay in Paisley next season.Goodwin revealed talks are ongoing but the Saints manager does expect some players to move on to pastures new come the end of the current campaign.He told Express Sport: “We’re in negotiations with a number of players who are out of contract.“We don’t want to lose too many from the current squad, but there will be players leaving. That’s just the nature of the business.“I’ve had those conversations with the players involved but I won’t go into it in detail.

Jim Goodwin says he’s dumbfounded as to why beleaguered boss Stephen Kenny hasn’t called up any of his Irish Buddies for international duty.The St Mirren manager watched his country plummet to a new low when they suffered an embarrassing 1-0 defeat at home to minnows Luxembourg last weekend.And frustrated Goodwin insists it’s high time his star players got the recognition they deserve, believing they are being excluded simply because of the perceived size of the Paisley club.He said: “I don’t see why Conor McCarthy, Jamie McGrath and Jake Doyle-Hayes shouldn’t be at least in Kenny’s consideration when he’s drawing up his squad.“Stephen’s got a hard enough job on his hands as it is, with far too many ex-players from Ireland sticking the

St Mirren Women head coach is delighted her team was able to finally return to non-contact training last week. With the current SWF Championship South campaign still on hold, a return to action to play half the fixtures required to complete a season by June looks highly unlikely.With a new season anticipated to kick off in August, Cooper is instead focusing on getting her players back to training and forming a squad that’s ready to step back onto the pitch when they can finally get back to competitive action.

Celtic have been enjoying one of the most dominant domestic periods ever, but ask them how they feel about this season and I’m pretty sure they’ll say they’ve been suffering.Hearts fans thought they were almost out of the woods as they (somehow) cruise to the Scottish Championship title before being knocked out of the Scottish Cup by part-time side Brora Rangers this week.At the end of the day, if you choose to throw your emotional tie in with a football club then you’re signing a waiver to agree to some form of heartache on an almost annual basis.Now obviously some teams produce more of these devastating moments than others.And when Hamilton equalised at the death last Saturday to cruelly rob St Mirren of a first top six spot in over three

St Mirren manager is now focused on being the best of the rest after the split. That will be no easy feat, with Motherwell and Dundee United hot on their heels.

St Mirren midfielder Billy Stark believes his Buddies passed up a golden opportunity to win the Premier Division in 1980.After an impressive sixth place finish in the 1978/79 season the Saints shot up the table the following campaign, in part thanks to the goalscoring exploits of striker Doug Somner who went on to net an incredible 25 goals to pick up that year’s golden boot.Despite having lost key players Frank McGarvey and Tony Fitzpatrick at the start of the 1979/80 season, to Liverpool and Bristol City respectively, Jim Clunie’s men started strongly and an incredible run of just one defeat in sixteen games had them sitting second in the table in mid-March.Stark himself contributed seven goals up to that point, forming a formidable

St Mirren face a crunch pre-split clash with Hamilton which could secure the Paisley club an historic top six finish, the Buddies boss has pleaded with supporters not to make their way through to South Lanarkshire this afternoon. With the coronavirus pandemic still very much ongoing and, in the light of other football fans who have broken social distancing rules over the last few months, Goodwin is hoping every St Mirren fan sticks to the guidelines and enjoys the football safely from their living rooms.

St Mirren onwards to victory today - and avoid a nervous wait to discover if other results have gone their way. The towering Buddies centre back endured an anxious afternoon at Rugby Park in his first season at former club St Johnstone as, following a heavy defeat, the Perthshire side waited to find out if they’d still managed to bag a top half spot.

St Mirren to an historic top six spot while also convincing prospect Dylan Reid his future lies in Paisley. The Buddies travel to Hamilton tomorrow knowing a win would guarantee their place in the top half of the top flight for the first time since 1985.

St Mirren fans digging out their shirts to celebrate a historic League Cup win sealed at Hampden Park eight years ago. And they’ll be popping the bubbly open again this Saturday night if Jim Goodwin’s men can secure another piece of history for the Paisley club by beating Hamilton tomorrow afternoon.

St Mirren heroes at Love Street as a ball boy.Fifteen years later he was proudly lining up at Hampden Park in the stripes ready to represent his boyhood club in a national cup final.Today marks eight years since that momentous trip to Glasgow for the Saints, which started poorly but ended so sweetly after the Paisley club beat favourites Hearts 3-2.Having gone a goal behind early on, goals from Isma Goncalves, Steven Thompson and Conor Newton ensured Danny Lennon’s side lifted the League Cup for the first time in the club’s history.And speaking to Express Sport exclusively from his home in Iceland earlier this week, McAusland believes the incredible win was extra special for the two boyhood Buddies in the squad that day.“It’s my best memory

Paisley.The Buddies have linked up with Belfast Celtic to provide a pathway between both clubs for players to switch from Northern Ireland to Scotland and vice versa.St Mirren Women head coach Kate Cooper believes the connection will help the Saints discover new talent that will help them build a stronger squad in seasons to come.She told Express Sport: “We played them in Paisley two years ago and since then we’ve stayed in contact and they’ve continued to push on.“The hope is we can create a feeder system for St Mirren, to give their players a chance to move here and develop their game.“Hopefully, we can uncover a few diamonds.