St Mirren statement from 11 September 2020

St Mirren Football Club can confirm that tomorrow’s (12 September) match against Hibernian will go ahead.

The club received very late confirmation from the SPFL this evening following a meeting between the Scottish Government and Joint Response Group.

The club have been informed that due to positive test results and track and trace protocols, our goalkeepers, Jak Alnwick, Dean Lyness and Peter Urminsky are all ineligible for tomorrow’s match. With less than 24 hours’ notice our only option is to attempt to bring in an eligible goalkeeper on loan and the club are working hard to do so and we will update fans as soon as possible once a deal is complete.

The club has rigorously followed all protocols put in place by the Scottish Government and the SPFL/SFA Joint Response Group and we will continue to do so. This is a very difficult situation for all concerned and we will continue to discuss with the SPFL how cases like this are dealt with in the future but we can assure St Mirren fans that we are doing all we can to make sure that we have a strong team for tomorrow’s match.

The club will not be issuing any other statement on this matter.