'St Mirren have become predictable and lack of goals is hurting '

St Mirren fan and Pie and Bovril supremo Div McDonald believes his side have suffered from key injuries this season but that opposition teams have also figured out the Paisley side.

The Buddies have a busy week, with a rescheduled Premiership match at Tannadice tonight that could see them take a step away from relegation worries, and a home Scottish Cup quarter-final against Partick Thistle as the Premier Sports Cup winners chase more silverware.

Stephen Robinson's side have not been in good form in the league, with the highs of the cup final looking a long time ago now.

McDonald told the Scottish Football Podcast: "Even by St Mirren standards, it's been a bonkers season.

"To be fair, our league form has been poor all season, even in the lead-up to the final. But I felt we kind of took our eye off the ball a little bit straight after the final.

"We did actually win our first league game straight after it, when we beat Livingston. We've only won once since then, so that was December.

"Of course the only team we've beaten since then is Hearts, who barely nobody else has beaten all season.

"It's been tough, but we have had a few injuries. We've got a really small squad. We lost pretty much two of our best three midfielders in Keanu Baccus and Mark O'Hara in the lead-up and straight after the final and that really hurt us. We lost Jonah Ayunga, which has hurt us.

"For me it feels like teams have just cottoned on to the way we play. We play a particular way, I think everybody knows that.

"I don't think it's as agricultural as people would have you believe. We do play some good football at times but we are rigid with our shape, with how we play and we don't really want the ball. We're happy to give the opposition the ball.

"At the end of the day, our Achilles heel is that we are the lowest scorers in the league and we just don't score goals. And away from home, we've not kept a clean sheet all season, so that's a big problem. We've had one league win away from home all season and that was in September.

"So our away form has been bad, lack of goals has killed us and we've been predictable. But we do what we do, and we're cup specialists."