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BBC News
16-05-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Robinson aims to complete challenging season with his greatest achievement
Stephen Robinson says leading St Mirren to European qualification this season would "definitely" be the greatest achievement in his managerial career so far because of the "challenges" he has Paisley club, who complete the campaign with a trip to Celtic on Saturday, will secure a place in Conference League qualifying for a second successive year if they better the result of Dundee United, who host ending St Mirren's 37-year wait for European football last season, Robinson says this year has been much tougher. Three new signings – Kevin Van Veen, Shaun Rooney and Jaden Brown - left the club amid separate court cases."I feel like it's three or four seasons rolled into one. The decisions the club had to make with players and the problems they faced was something you probably don't get when you manage for 30 years," said Robinson."But to have it all in a three-month period was difficult. But we've managed to come through it and I feel I'm a better manager for it."It's been unenjoyable at times. But we're in the top six with a chance of Europe with one game to go."So the lesson is that the bad times don't last forever. And tough people come through those times and this group of players have shown they're tough."We got a bit of a stick for celebrating reaching the top six. That was a relief on my part because we weren't in a relegation battle."Being in this division is a huge success for St Mirren. Being in the top six is a brilliant achievement. Being in Europe is something that happens once in a lifetime for most St Mirren fans. If we can do that twice in consecutive years, then that would be a super achievement."St Mirren are unbeaten in five games, winning two of their post-split matches, and head to Celtic Park looking to spoil the party on the day the hosts lift the Premiership trophy."It's certainly not an impossible task. We've taken the whole European pressure off the players and said let's remain unbeaten in the top six. For St Mirren to be unbeaten in the top six would be what an incredible achievement," Robinson added."We can't affect what happens at Dundee United and Aberdeen. It'll be 100 degrees inside Celtic Park and their fans will be there to celebrate. So it's our job to try and put a little bit of a dampener on them."
BBC News
16-04-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Rooney signs two-year deal to stay at Fleetwood
Fleetwood Town have agreed a new two-year contract with defender Shaun Rooney until the summer of Scottish defender returned to Highbury in January on a short-term deal until the end of the then, he has played 17 games and scored two goals and he will remain part of Pete Wild's squad for next are currently 13th in League Two with just four matches remaining. This is Rooney's second spell at Fleetwood, having spent two seasons with the club between 2022 and 2024 in which he played 80 returned to Scotland last summer to join St Mirren, but he was released in October after being suspended in the wake of an assault charge, before returning to his old club as a free agent.
