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Of course we have every chance but it will be very, very tough and you can see them drawing us into a battle like they so often do. That will almost certainly be Robinson’s aim to get physical, get in our faces and disrupt our rhythm. My fear is that we just aren’t clinical enough and are ropy at the back and this is the type of tie that I reckon will be decided by a single goal or else on a penalty shootout. St.Mirren have already beaten Hearts and Kilmarnock on penalties in this competition and they’d be confident of doing the same to us should it get that far. On the other hand maybe we will finally find our shooting boots and we will sweep them aside 3-0 like we did with St.Johnstone in the Scottish Cup Semi all those years ago…

Our cup record against St Mirren is abysmal but frankly I wouldn't bet against us these days. There is not one team that has played us off the park and but for OUR own ability to shoot ourselves in the foot we could quite easily be top of the league right now and no one could argue against it based on our general standard of play. I happy for us to face anyone right now, I have no fear facing anyone in the league or the Cup. Do I think we have better players than St Mirren ? Yes I do and all things being equal the team with better players should win. However we all know that's not always the way. St Mirren are big strong and physical and they never give up. Does that mean we will beat St Mirren , no it doesn't , but there is absolutely no reason why we can't.

Per JBA interview sounds like we should have a stronger squad for this game with Sparrow, Just and Hendry in full training all this week. I think Slattery probably still missing but hopefully back for game after this. Falkirk are no mugs but I’d love to see us hammer them but more than happy to win by a single goal, hopefully maintaining our entertaining football.

I always think it's an easy cop out saying hampden is a shit hole. Park head and ibrox are no better facility wise and are only better in their seating behind the goals. Murrayfield behind goals is as far away as hampden imo so saying it's not worthy of a final is harsh. Yes I'd love a Wembley or millennium but the constant knocking of our national stadium is as I said harsh. Where would you say is worthy of a final in Scotland

The other reason that was given when they started having all the semis at Hampden (other than getting use out of a white elephant) was that it helped the smaller clubs in that they could get used to playing there so they weren't disadvantaged getting to the final and playing Rangers and Celtic who were more used to being there. Lot of shite obviously but that was one of the excuses/reasons given...

There is no real need for the semi finals to be at a neutral venue, just play them like any other round of the cup, and keep Hampden for finals only.

Whoops!! Forgot about that

It’s a wee while away yet but I already get the gut feeling that this one is going to be a sickener for us. But we’ll cross that bridge nearer the time. I love Hampden and am more than happy to be going there for the SF. I don’t care if it’s half empty and therefore how it looks to the viewing public or what it does for the reputation of Scottish football, I’d much rather play a Semi Final there than at an Easter Road, Tynecastle or a Rugby Park type venue.

If they ever decide to play a semi final on the plastic at Rugby Park, I am giving up on the game. I have no problem paying them at neutral grounds, but grass needs to be involved.

If there was a Tynecastle size venue in the West of Scotland, that would make sense for a semi final between St Mirren and ourselves..

It's a very good point. I think issue possibly is there will be i reckon 20,000 there and only stadiums that could accommodate that outwith Hampden and old firm are Easter road and Pittodrie which wouldn't work logistically. Rugby park would be possible but would mean restricting season ticket holders to say only 2 tickets. Agree though that Hampden is terrible and needs flattened and rebuilt

Totally agree, Hampden is a shit hole, the semi finals should be played elsewhere, to be honest its not even worthy of the final, but as it will never get upgraded we are stuck with it.

I was just waiting for the.........over 8000 fans and every time we have a big support we never perform....4-0 to St.Mirren 🤣🤣🤣

Going to be an unpopular opinion but it's mad that semi finals get played at Hampden. Between ourselves and St Mirren it won't even hit half full. As a purest I don't think semis should be there at all, should be for the final. Guess the SFA need to get their money's worth.

Club confirms over 7,000 now sold. I’d expect us to comfortably clear the 8k mark by the time the game comes around.

This is how it works for Scotland games too. Very annoying.

Yup sales looking great. My only bug bear is the better sections become available once on general sale. We are in D4 which is fine but D2 OR D3 would have been better. Other options were C3 P0, R2 and D2 🤪🤪

Yeah, may get a few more sales on Sat as well.

I see tickets are now being sold in section F4 at Hampden that wasn't previously available. Promising sign.

The chat is he travels on a British Passport, but uses Zimbabwean one for registration for the games etc. He's posted on FB about Sat, so all seems ok.

Is JT making it back in time?

I just wonder what kind of state our squad will be in come Saturday morning. Certainly, Stephen Welsh should be a welcome returnee. Will Sparrow, Hendry, Just and Slattery be fit enough to feature even from the bench? How fit will TJ and RCC be after their international travels. Hopefully too, no more training injuries.

Do you know anyone with good ones . 😮😮

Definitely needing 3 points in this one no matter how we play Loving this new style of football, but 3 points is a definite must to ensure we start climbing the table 1-0 win or 4-3 win I will gladly take either

Right who wants a joke?. OK....that'll be naw then 🤣🤣