Stephen Robinson admits it’s extra sweet to see his Buddies flying high when many were tipping his team for the dreaded drop.
After an embarrassing early League Cup exit, many pundits thought St Mirren were set for a relegation battle this season. But with just two games to go until the Premiership split, the Saints are sitting pretty in fifth spot – just three points off Aberdeen in third.
And Robinson, who revamped the squad in the summer by bringing in the likes of Keanu Baccus, Jonah Ayunga and Mark O’Hara, revealed he fed off the negativity and used it as fuel to fire the club forward and prove the doubters wrong.
He told Renfrewshire Live Sport: “I think at the start of the season everyone had us as favourites to go down.“People were making predictions without any sort of knowledge of some of the players we were bringing in.
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