Already Saints have a new stadium at Greenhill Road, and this week they watched work begin on the new £1m training complex at Ralston.

Gus MacPherson pulled on a hard-hat to supervise the first sod being cut at the Bathgo Avenue site where he'll soon oversee the Saints stars of tomorrow learning their trade.

Whether or not that trade will still be in the Premier League, only the coming two months will tell.

MacPherson said: "You work so hard to be at this level but you can never take it for granted.

"We've got guys who have experience in a relegation battle and that will help, but we won't know until we're actually in it. There are five teams at the bottom who are so evenly matched.

"The complex will mean everything to the players who'll be based here and it'll help us sign new players because we have a new stadium and training facilities with everything a player could need.

"We won't be in and out of minibuses looking for places to train."

In the past MacPherson and his side have fallen foul of dog dirt and broken glass on public spaces where they've tried to train and a dedicated centre will also prove a boost to the club's youth development scheme.

If only Saints' strikers had their glitzy new centre sooner, they might have had extra impetus to do some extra shooting practice, and avoided a turgid goalless stalemate at New Douglas Park on Saturday.

The draw leaves Saints just three points off bottom club Falkirk and ten points from seventh placed Motherwell. The Buddies do however have a game in hand over all their fellow relegation contenders except Falkirk, to be played against Rangers next month.