07-07-2025
Buddies head home buzzing from 'beneficial' pre-season camp
Assistant manager Brian Kerr says the training camp in Spain has been "very beneficial" for St Mirren as they prepare for their season-opener on Buddies travel to Gayfield this weekend (Saturday, 12 July kick-off 15:00 BST) to take on Arbroath in their first League Cup group stage game. Before that, they face Airdrieonians on Tuesday in their final pre-season game back on home Robinson's side have spent the last week in the blistering heat of Pinatar, and Kerr can only see positives from their time in the sun."It's been a great week," Kerr told club media."It's been great for bringing the new boys together, bringing some young boys over, continuing to add to the fitness that the boys had already topped up on and getting our ideas across for the way we want to play. "The boys have worked very, very hard. "It's been extremely warm conditions but what they get out of that is going to be very beneficial going back in towards the last pre-season game next week and then the first game of the cup."