Stephen Robinson admits his first year in Paisley has served him up the toughest tests of his managerial career. But the Saints boss insists all the pain and strife will be well worth it if the club smash their way to the top-six finish they’ve been craving for nearly four decades.
Robinson replaced Jim Goodwin in February last year expecting a serious challenge to pull off St Mirren’s first top-half finish in the top flight since 1985.
Little did he know that as well as that pressure to perform on the park, he’d also inherit a seriously challenging financial situation off it to safely navigate through. A £1.6million loss in their most recent financial statement laid bare the kind of issues Robinson was having to wrangle with behind closed doors.
