Penalty record

[LawSteelman]

I'm not talking about St.Mirren or Stranraer's mentality, I'm only interested in ours. If you fail to score three penalties in a shootout you're not going to win, so it doesn't matter what mentality the opposition have, we have already made their task easier. So yes, I would say that it does come down to who they are playing and as I said, had St.Mirren been playing Hearts (to use an example) at Tynecastle last night in a Cup match that went to penalties they would not have won. Indeed, put Donnelly, Watt and Hylton in Hearts jerseys last night and they'd all have scored.

I don't have a list of stats for our penalty conversion rate over the years but I've seen us miss plenty of crucial ones at key moments in big games.

Off the top of my head;

- Murphy v Odense in Europe when we were 0-1 down with a few minutes to go.

- O'Brien against Rangers in the 88th minute at 0-0.

- Forbes in the 6-6 Hibs game

- Higdon, normally so reliable, missing against Aberdeen in a Cup Quarter Final at a crucial stage of the game

- Tom Hateley missing one at Parkhead in the 80th minute with the score at 0-0.

All of those, every single one of them, cost us either points or progression/potential progression in big cup matches.

We don't have an iota of bottle at our club. Not one.