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Brian Rice is bookie’s favourite.

We're signing Isma Goncalves tomorrow, right?

Paul McKnight's injury time screamer to seal promotion at Ayr in April 2000; tremendous strike and probably the maddest celebrations of a Saints goal I've ever been part of.

Pish journalism. Transfer window is shut.

And for those of us whose iPhones won't let us watch clips on the BBC site (but does let me watch the BBC highlights on the match report page of this website).

11am - Seven of us start the drinking at my pal's flat in Shawlands. After half an hour a girl he'd pulled the night before in her Saturday night outfit from his bedroom and leaves without saying a word. We get in the mood for the final by watching the "Saints Are Back" DVD - Paul McKnight's goal at Ayr is rewound and watched again about ten times. 12.30pm - Go to Ketchup for lunch. We all make it onto their wall of fame by finishing off their massive "Colossus" burger. 2.30pm - Walk to Hampden singing "The Saints Are Coming" in made up Japanese since our pal JM1 was watching the game in Tokyo. Made an effigy of him using a Ketchup balloon and a marker pen to take to the game. 3pm - 5pm. Amazing incredible rollercoaster of emotions. After Hearts scored their 2nd I was convinced we were going to blow it until the ball went out of play and a huge roar of "COME ON YE SAINTS" went up from our fans, I'm sure it helped get the players over the line. Wild scenes at full-time - total ecstasy! 5.30pm - Taxi to Paisley with a racist Celtic fan nutter of a taxi driver. 6pm - Cafe Borgia. Place is mobbed but everyone seems a bit subdued, as if in a state of shock. Barmaids tremendous as always. 7pm - Bus parade and County Square event. Pretty disappointing as others have said elsewhere. 8pm - Queues to get into most pubs so we went straight to Viennas and got straight on the shots and cheap £10 bottles of bubbly. By about 9pm the place was rammed with Saints fans. All a bit of a blur after that but the place was a bouncing sea of black & white and there was lots of hugging, singing songs, dancing and laughing. By the time the players arrived it was mass hysteria - also about this time that my head started splitting and my stomach started churning ... should really have had some dinner! 3am - Thought I was going to pass out and die while waiting for a taxi in the freezing cold outside Gilmour St but survived and made it home. Monday - Absolute burst baw but it was the happiest I've ever felt with such a killer hangover. Spend all day reading newspaper and online coverage of the final. Proud to be a Buddie and love this Saints team more than any other - seem like such a decent likeable bunch and it's been fantastic to see us win a trophy playing such exciting and attractive football rather than just grinding out results Gus McPherson style. Hopefully the wait until the next trophy will be a bit shorter this time - I think it will. We're due a Scottish Cup, hopefully 2014 will be the year we win it again!

Great post, sir. The best thing about supporting St Mirren is making friends with guys like Mr Zo. We are the good guys. Let's win it Saints!!!

Just home from the southside. What an absolutely unbelievably astonishingly brilliant day! YAAAASSSSSSSS THOMMMMMOOOOO!!!!

10000 Hours route for me. Like many fans I've had some misgivings and it might well become a case of 'the lunatics taking over the asylum' ... but at least we'll all know that the lunatics involved share the same love of SMFC as we do. A choice between having Tony Fitzpatrick and GLS on the board or some shady vulture like Massone is no choice at all, surely.

*Bump*

A guy on the Saints facebook page reckons Steven Thompson told his pal he'd be willing to take a wage cut to play for Saints because he's fed up not getting a game at Burnley. Hopefully DL will make some enquiries.

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