If St Mirren are going to be Scotland’s best community-centred development club, as they aspire to be, then they themselves must develop.
For the Premiership’s so-called ‘smaller’ clubs, particularly those that are fan-owned, the headwinds have gradually been building. Their rising costs are not only fuelled by the sort of inflationary pressures that are also squeezing every fan on the terraces who, nevertheless, puts their hands into their pockets to buy their season tickets or to contribute monthly to the SMiSA pot, but by the largesse of clubs both north and south of the border who have the luxury of a wealthy owner to absorb their often astronomical losses.
