13 February -  Official Site goes live at 10pm
It's probably been the worst kept secret... well,  since the last worst kept secret!  At 10pm this evening this site will cease to be.  In its place at www.stmirren.net will be the Official Club Website but will be located on a different server.  Remember to check your bookmarks after the site's relocation.

Div, Karin, Ross and myself would like to thank all the visitors and contributors to the website since its inception just over a year ago.  Some of the features on this website will no longer be appropriate to the official site (supersweep, If Only etc) .  These will probably be relocated to www.soapdodgers.co.uk .

The Sizzling Saints internet football team will continue and a separate web site set up.  The existing Sizzling Saints forum will remain at http://server5.ezboard.com/bsizzlingsaints for a while.

We hope that the Official site will prove to be a valuable resource to online Buddies near and far. 

Signing off from Sizzling Saints....

TB&WT

10 February -  SQ No 22 On Sale!!
It's that time again folks.. A new edition of our favourite half time read is out and includes:

Those were not the days.. 
Memories of Harpo's childhood (oo-er missus!!)
Your very own M*rton fan
Billy Stark - a tribute
Saints Stalkings 2
Saint or Sinner
Welcome to Greenock Zoo

And loads more...

Watch out for Millport and Griff at the corner of Love Street and Albion street and in the Northbank at half time.   Price £1-50

Preview: Saints v Inverness CT
Very few sides in Scotland have had cup fortune’s contrasting quite as much as St.Mirren and Inverness Caley Thistle. Whereas Caley will, according to Tom Hendrie, “float down here on the cloud of euphoria”, Saints’ character will once again be tested in their attempts to bounce back from yet another early cup exit.

Unless you’ve been locked up in solitary for the past few days it won’t have passed you by that Thistle went to Celtic Park on Tuesday night as 16-1 shots and left 3-1 victors. While they were travelling back home north Hendrie’s side were going in the opposite direction having been defeated 2-0 by Aberdeen in a game in which, with a bit more luck,  they could easily have won.

Everyone at Love Street will be hoping that Luck won’t be a deciding factor in tomorrow’s game as of late they just don’t seem to have that all important ingredient. Caley on the other hand currently have it in abundance, so much so that even Celtic’s Lubomir Moravcik decided to help their Scottish cup cause by knocking one past his own goalkeeper in that midweek win. Not that I’m trying to take anything away from their recent run of form which has seen them go six games without defeat and rise up to sixth place in the first division.

There is certainly no shortage of ability in their side and the main threat is likely to come from Paul Sheerin, the division’s top scorer with 16 goals, and Barry Wilson who despite being a midfielder converted into a forward, has found the net on no less than 11 occasions. The majority of these strikes though have arrived within the borders of Inverness, out-with Inverness however they have won only twice all season.

With both Richard Hastings and David Xausa on international duty with Canada their small squad will be tested for tomorrow’s game, a phrase which is also familiar around Love Street.

Thankfully the injuries are now starting to clear up and although Hugh Murray is suspended for one more game Tom Brown will be in the squad despite his red card against Livingston last Saturday. He received a four match ban as a result of that dismissal and consequently missed the midweek trip north, but the remaining three games of that ban won’t come into effect until next week’s clash with Dunfermline.

Joe McLaughlin meanwhile, having not played since last month, will be given a run out in the reserves this week before he gets the chance to make his St.Mirren debut at the age of 39.

Likely Line-up: Roy, Nicolson, Ross, Turner, McLaughlin, Walker, Baltacha, Bowman, Lavety, Mendes, Yardley  Subs from: McGarry, Brown, Rudden, and Robinson

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