Our away fixture at St Mirren due for Saturday 23rd September has been moved back 24 hours to Sunday 24th September with a 4:10pm kick off after being selected for live coverage by BBC Alba.

Tonight's winning number was 120824, paying £220, so far unclaimed. But can still be claimed by producing the winning ticket at the Club Shop.

This Tuesday sees our first game in the IRNBRU Cup against League One side, Airdrieonians.

Our visitors have had a tough start to the season, with just the one victory recorded so far, against Stranraer in the Betfred Cup.

A couple of familiar-ish faces should be in tomorrows squad - Ryan Conroy had two spells at Palmerston before joining the Diamonds while Marc Fitzpatrick made a handful of appearnances in blue and white in 2013 before joining Morton. One very familiar face that wont be playing is Iain Russell. "Beanie", of course, left us to join Airdrie last summer but decided at the end of last season to retire from football. 

Ahead of the game, the manager gave his thoughts

"I am still disappointed that we came away from Tannadice empty-handed on Saturday, it was a tough one to take. I was really pleased with the way that we played after a difficult opening first twenty minutes or so. I can't fault the lads effort and commitment. After a tough open 20 minutes or so we found our feet and I thought we did more than enough to earn at least a point from the match.

We certainly created enough chances to have taken something but a combination of indifferent finishing from us, a poor final pass or cross and very good defending from Dundee United denied us. I have said before that it’s never easy playing against ten-men because they galvanise themselves and defend with a greater intensity. But there is plenty of positives for us to build on.

There’s a healthy belief in the squad just now. The defeat at Dundee United was a sore one but we will make sure that it doesn’t dent the confidence that we’ve got from a good pre-season and a good first-day result at home to Brechin City.

We have to sustain the level of performance that we’ve got from our two opening games against Airdrie.

We have got a good record in the Challenge Cup  and that’s something that we want to continue, particularly after our disappointing exit from the League Cup.

But Airdrie will make it tough.  They'll be pleased to get their first point of the season on Saturday and I am sure that will give them a platform to push on.

The arrival of Chris Kane and Jason Kerr has boosted our squad and given us competition for places.  I've already said I will shuffle the pack for the Cup game, as I want to give players game time.  The whole squad will be required throughout the season so they all need to be ready. "

Ahead of Tuesday nights Airdrie game, the club have a new selection of pin badges available for this seasons matches.

There is a badge for each of the cup ties against East Kilbride, Airdrie and Albion Rovers as well as a brand new kit badge with this seasons, bespoke, Macron home top.

Badges cost just £3 each (plus £1 P&P) for the match badges and just £4 (plus £1 P&P) for the kit badge.

All are available now in the Club Shop or online at 

http://store.qosfc.com/badges

As a special introductory price, we are offering all 3 club badges for just £7.50 (plus P&P) or all 4 badgees for just £11. Ask in store or add all the badges to your online basket and the discount will be applied automatically at checkout

Walking Football takes place tomorrow at the Arena. It's for the over 50s who want to continue enjoying their football in a less energetic way. It gets underway at 10am.

Unfortunately due to unforeseen circumstances, the girls’ soccer camp scheduled for this week has been cancelled.

Don't forget, the first team have TWO games at HOME this week. On Tuesday we welcome Airdrie in the first round of this seasons Irn Bru Cup.  It's a competition we have a good record in so we hope to get off to a winning start. Kick off 1945. Then on Saturday we are back at Palmerston to play Dumbarton in the Championship at 3pm.

Its round 2 of SPFL Championship action this weekend and we face our first away game with a trip to Tannadice to face Dundee United.

Both sides won their opening game of the league season and United will be looking to get back to winning ways after losing their, Betfred Cup, Dundee derby on Wednesday.

Manager, Gary Naysmith gave his thoughts ahead of Saturdays clash :

"We made a great start to the league campaign last week and we want to build on that at Tannadice.

To start with the win and to play well against Brechin City was pleasing, although our home games in the League Cup could've been better, we have to remember that we haven't lost in five ninety minutes. 

We are well aware that it's going to be a tough game at United, but we will go there and be positive.  United were unlucky last season, just missing out via the play-offs and I think Ray has recruited well.  He has strengthen the squad by signing players who have the experience of the Championship, players like Sam Stanton and Fraser Fyvie. He's also brought in players like Scott McDonald, all good signings, adding to the decent squad they had already.

They made a good start to the Championship themselves last week, winning at Inverness, by all accounts they were good going forward in that one. I watched them first had against Dundee in the Cup on Wednesday so I know the threat they carry, but it's up to us to set up a team that can counter that and stand up and be counted.

It's their first home game in the league so it could be a big crowd, Tannadice has one of the best, if not the best atmosphere in the Championship, we have to go their and be brave and try to cause them problems.

Although we both have different players this time around, there wasn't much between the two sides last season.  So the players who were involved last campaign no they have nothing to fear but at the same time we will be respectful of the strength of their squad.

It will be a decent game, we will go there and test them, we know it will be tough so we need to be at least as good as we were on Saturday.  They boys carried out the game plan against Brechin perfectly, we are looking for them to do the same again this week."

Team News

Stephen Dobbie missed last week with a back problem, but he's trained this week so comes back into the squad.  Alan Martin is also back in contention along with new signings Chris Kane and Jason Kerr.