A gallery of pictures from the Westmarch Suite following our match against Celtic in the Ladbrokes Premiership on Wednesday night.

Thanks to our match sponsor University of the West of Scotland and match ball sponsor Imperial Commercials for their support.

Gallery pictures by Allan Picken © - Allan Picken Photography

Tomorrow afternoon (Saturday 6th April) St Mirren make the trip to Lanarkshire for a Ladbrokes Premiership match-up with Hamilton Academical at the Hope CBD Stadium.

The info on Travel Clubs heading to the Hope CBD Stadium for the match is as follows:

Tile Bar Supporters Bus

The bus for Hamilton will leave Abercorn Street at 1:45pm.

Two seats are still available on the bus.

Bus tickets are available from the bar.

Chivas Travel Club

Our bus for the game at Hamilton will leave the Court Bar at 2:00pm.

Bus tickets are on sale now from behind the bar.

North End Travel Club

The bus to Hamilton will leave The Sneddon at 2:00pm.

Our bus is now sold out for this match.

Cockles Wilson Supporters Bus

If you would like to travel on the bus please contact Fraser Burns on Facebook or twitter.

 Ambulant disabled supporters are charged at the appropriate age price with a free carer if required.

Cash gates will be 7, 8 & 9 and 10, 11 & 12 will be for pre-paid tickets and comps only.

Tickets for this match are on sale from the St Mirren Ticket Office.

The St Mirren Ticket Office (Main Stand) opening hours in the build up to this match are as follows:

Fri, 5th Apr: 10:00am to 2:00pm
Sat, 6th Apr: CLOSED

Ticket Office Phone No: (0141) 840-6130.
St Mirren Ticket Office E-Mail: tickets@stmirren.com.

Additional Information for Travelling Fans

On Saturday (6th April), St Mirren make the trip to Lanarkshire to face Hamilton Academical in a Ladbrokes Premiership match-up at the Hope CBD Stadium.

The referee on Saturday is John Beaton and he will be assisted by Graham Chambers and Andy Milne. Fourth Official will be Greg Aitken.

Following the success of our family entertainment initiatives on match days at the Simple Digital Arena, we would like to give families the opportunity to travel to an away game on an official family supporters bus for our upcoming match away to Hamilton Academical.

A small number of seats are still available on the family supporters bus for the Hamilton game on Saturday (6th April).

The bus will leave from the stadium at 1:45pm with tickets priced at £5 per person (crisps and juice included). 

Tickets can be purchased from the stadium reception or by emailing colin.bright@stmirren.com. 

Once again we are giving St Mirren fans the chance to ‘live the dream’ while helping out the Youth Development Programme at the same time.

Two teams – one home and one away – made up of St Mirren fans will kick-off our annual fixture that will be played on the pitch at the Simple Digital Arena on Sunday 19th May with a 12pm kick off. 

There will be two teams with 16 players per team (1-11 and five substitutes).  Each shirt will be available to bid on in a blind auction with all proceeds going to the St Mirren Youth Development Programme. 

Special guests will be announced in due course.

Come and be part of this exciting day which will include:-

* The St Mirren Match Day Experience – playing the game on the pitch at the Simple Digital Arena.

* Wearing an official team strip that you will also get to keep after the game.

* Match filmed.

* Medal presentation to all players.

* Food and refreshments post match.

The rules are as follows: 

*You must be 18 years of age or over to both bid and take part in 'Saint for a Day'. 

*By bidding on the auction you are declaring that you (or the person you are bidding for) are fit and well to take part in the event. 

*In the instance of getting two identical bids for the same shirt number in the same team, the email that has the earliest date and time stamp will be accepted as the leading bidder. 

*Payment must be made immediately if you have been the successful bidder.

*Payment not made by match day will see shirts given to other bidders.

To have a chance to take part on the day please send your blind auction bid by filling out this form. (Minimum bid is £125). Good Luck!!

St Mirren were beaten 2-0 at home to Ladbrokes Premiership leader Celtic.

Goals either side of half-time from Timothy Weah and Ryan Christie were enough to give the visitors all the points. 

Oran Kearney made six changes to the side that defeated Dundee on Saturday as Laurentiu Corbu, Anton Ferdinand, Cammy MacPherson, Stephen McGinn, Jim Kellermann and Cody Cooke coming in for Paul McGinn, Gary MacKenzie, Brad Lyons, Ryan Flynn, Anders Dreyer and Danny Mullen. 

Pre-match Saints gaffer Kearney told BBC how it was important to start the game well, but it was the hosts who started the brighter. They should have been ahead on 10 minutes when a Callum McGregor through ball found Kristoffer Ajer of all people. It was perhaps nosebleed territory for the Norwegian centre-half who sent his effort over. 

The Hoops took the lead just four minutes later. Mikael Lustig's shot spun up for Timothy Weah who headed off the cross bar. It was hard to tell whether it had crossed the line with Kearney questioning fourth official David Lowe, but the goal was given and Celtic led. 

Neil Lennon's side had a glorious opportunity to double that lead five minutes later when Oliver Burke was found in space inside the Saints box, but the forward somehow smashed wide from close range.

The visitors were on top and looked like they would double their advantage when Jim Kellermann was penalised for a handball after Emilio Izaguirre's cross into the box. Olivier Ntcham stepped up but his effort was blocked by Saints goalkeeper Vaclav Hladky before the rebound crashed off the bar and over.

Hladky, who was named as Saints' man of the match, had to be alert at the start of the second half after Oliver Burke had jinked by the Buddies defence to make his way into the box but the Czech goalkeeper made a good stop.

There were warning signs for Saints but the Buddies were still only 1-0 down and started to grow into the game almost finding ourselves level when Cody Cooke found space on the edge of the Celtic box and curled low towards the right corner. Scott Bain made a terrific save to turn the ball behind for a corner.

Laurentiu Corbu, on his first St Mirren start, sent the ball in where Cooke headed on to the back post but Duckens Nazon couldn't force home.

Nazon really should have gotten Saints level when he found himself one-on-one with the Celtic goalkeeper just before the hour mark. Kellermann had been fouled by Scott Brown in the middle of the park and the Buddies were awarded a free kick. Mihai Popescu caught out the Celtic defence as he took it quick and found Nazon clear on goal. But as the Haitian striker broke into the box, he checked back and the ball was smothered by Bain who had rushed off his line.

Ryan Christie came on as a substitute for the visitors and twice went close to extending their lead. The first saw him denied by Hladky on 66 minutes before fizzing a shot from the edge of the box just over the bar eight minutes later.

It was Christie who sealed the points though with just five minutes to go. It was neat bit of play between the forward and McGregor before his effort deflected off Popescu from just inside the box found its way past Hladky. 

Saints had a final chance to pull a goal back but substitute Paul McGinn's shot was cleared off the line. 

Up next for the Buddies is Hamilton on Saturday at the Hope CBD Stadium.

Full Time: St Mirren 0-2 Celtic

St Mirren: Hladky, Corbu, Baird, Ferdinand, Popescu, Muzek, S.McGinn (c) (Lyons 64), MacPherson, Kellermann (P.McGinn 76), Cooke, Nazon (Jackson 71)
Subs Not Used: Holmes, McAllister, Dreyer, Mullen

Celtic: Bain, Lustig (Benkovic 70), Ajer, Simunovic, Izaguirre, Brown (c), Ntcham (Christie 63), McGregor, Forrest, Weah (Edouard 78), Burke
Subs Not Used: De Vries, Toljan, Sinclair, Rogic

#SMFCMOM - Vaclav Hladky

Referee: Don Robertson
Assistant Referee: Andrew McWilliam
Assistant Referee: Graham McNeillie 
Fourth Official: David Lowe

Attendance: 6,597

Saints gaffer Oran Kearney gives his thoughts on the Buddies' 2-0 loss to Celtic at the Simple Digital Arena tonight.

St Mirren are back in action this evening as we play host to Ladbrokes Premiership leaders Celtic at the Simple Digital Arena.

FORM

The Buddies are looking to build on Saturday's 2-1 win over Dundee that saw Oran Kearney's men come off the bottom of the league.

It was Saints' second win in our last four league matches as we climbed into 11th place for the first time since January.

Saints have won two, drawn two and lost two of our last six league matches, while Celtic have won five of their last six in the league.

They come into tonight's match on the back of extending their lead at the top of the Ladbrokes Premiership to 13 points following a 2-1 win over rivals Rangers at Celtic Park on Sunday.

The Hoops are unbeaten domestically in 2019 having won 10 of 11 league matches since the turn of the year. 

Celtic are, however, without a win in four away league matches at newly-promoted opponents. Their last coming in April 2017 when they defeated Rangers 5-1 at Ibrox.

PREVIOUS

This will be the third and final meeting of the sides this season. 

The first came in September when Saints hosted Celtic in Paisley in Oran Kearney's first match as Saints gaffer. 

The Buddies picked up a point after a hard-fought 0-0 draw with the Hoops. 

St Mirren then travelled to Glasgow's East End for the first league match of 2019 back in January but were on the end of a 4-0 loss to the league leaders with a double from Oliver Burke added to by goals from Scott Sinclair and Timothy Weah.

Saints' last win over Celtic in the league came at the Simple Digital Arena in March 2010 as the Buddies trounced the Hoops 4-0 thanks to braces from Andy Dorman and Steven Thomson.

WHAT A WIN WOULD MEAN

A win would keep the Buddies in 11th place after Saturday's win over Dundee.

Depending on results elsewhere a win could see us extend our gap over Dundee to five points and move to within one of Hamilton Accies.

A draw for Saints would keep us in 11th providing Dundee don't beat St Johnstone by four goals at McDiarmid Park this evening.

Meanwhile, Celtic are nine points away from guaranteeing an eighth Ladbrokes Premiership title in a row after their win on Sunday and will look to take a step closer to securing the title.

They currently sit 13 points clear of Rangers at the top. Three wins would see them reach 82 points with Rangers only able to make 81 points providing they win their remaining seven league matches this season. 

TEAM NEWS

Danny Rogers, Greg Tansey and Lee Hodson are all still ruled out due to injury and while Kyle Magennis has returned to training, he remains out. 

Celtic are expected to make changes this evening with Dedryck Boyata and Kieran Tierney expected to miss out after picking up injuries at the weekend.

This coming Saturday (6th April) St Mirren make the trip to Lanarkshire for a Ladbrokes Premiership match-up with Hamilton Academical at the Hope CBD Stadium.

The info on Travel Clubs heading to the Hope CBD Stadium for the match is as follows:

Tile Bar Supporters Bus

The bus for Hamilton will leave Abercorn Street at 1:45pm.

Bus tickets are available from the bar.

Chivas Travel Club

Our bus for the game at Hamilton will leave the Court Bar at 2:00pm.

Bus tickets are on sale now from behind the bar.

North End Travel Club

The bus to Hamilton will leave The Sneddon at 2:00pm.

Bus tickets are now available in the Brewer's Tap, £5 each.

Cockles Wilson Supporters Bus

If you would like to travel on the bus please contact Fraser Burns on Facebook or twitter.

Our match day programme, published in partnership with Curtis Sport, will be available from the Club Shop ahead of Wednesday’s game.

This issue, for the Ladbrokes Premiership fixture against Celtic, is a 52 pager with a £3 cover price.

This latest edition includes the following:

Front Cover – Mateo Muzek
The Gaffer - Oran Kearney looks back on the match against Dundee and looks ahead to the fixture against Celtic.
Last Time Out – A look back at the recent Premiership match away to St Johnstone.
The Opposition – Brian Corry runs the rule over Neil Lennon's Celtic side.
Matchday Announcements - Bulletin Board of info, dates and events in the world of St Mirren.
St Mirren Greats – David Cochran looks back on the St Mirren career of Jim Blair.
Matchday Gallery - Pictures from the post match presentations in the corporate suite after the recent home match against Dundee.
Action Shot & Q&A (Centre Pages) – Ethan Erhahon gives answers to our quick-fire questionnaire. 
Player Kit Sponsors 2018/19 – Check in to see who is sponsoring your favourite player's shirt for the season.
Fans Corner - Ticket prices, travel clubs update, match info and dates for fans to keep in their diary. And a fan's music selection!
Street Stuff - Info on the ground breaking community programme's Spring Break events.
Paisley Panda's Fun Corner – Some puzzles to keep the youngsters entertained during the half-time break.
Football Bloody Hell - Alan Gallacher looks at the issue of racial abuse that has been highlighted recently in the football world. 
Marketing Matters – Campbell Kennedy updates on the latest events and happenings at the club's Commercial Department.
FlashBack - A pictorial look back to St Mirren's 3-2 win against Celtic in the 2013 League Cup Semi-Final.
St Mirren Fixtures & Results 2018/19 – A handy reference page of all the fixtures and results for this season.
Team Lines – The two squads and match officials for Wednesday's match.

To buy this issue or to place your programme subscription for the 2018/19 season click HERE.