Stephen Robinson will make changes for St Mirren’s match at Rangers

St Mirren manager Stephen Robinson is set to freshen up his team for their Ibrox trip after admitting their recent exertions likely caught up with some of his players in Saturday’s goalless draw with Kilmarnock.

The Premier Sports Cup winners were looking for a fourth consecutive win but were held by a Killie side who are battling to get back to winning ways.

Robinson could recall striker Mikael Mandron for Tuesday’s game against Rangers and captain Mark O’Hara could make his first start since the League Cup semi-final against Motherwell on November 1 after returning from a foot problem.

The Saints boss also has the likes of Jayden Richardson, Scott Tanser and Liam Donnelly pushing for starts.

Despite dominating against Killie, St Mirren could not find the breakthrough and Robinson said in a club video: “I thought there were certain individuals that the last couple of weeks probably just caught up with them.

“Maybe I should have made more changes at half-time in hindsight.

“Understandably, I thought it caught up with a few of them, especially the forward players. We asked a lot of them.

“We’ll get them re-energised for Tuesday night. I don’t think you need a lot of motivation to go to Ibrox and play.

“We’ll have energy. We’ll make changes in the team. We’ll freshen it up. We’ll try and utilise the squad and try and keep this good run going.”

Robinson, whose team are now unbeaten in five games, added: “There’s a few tired legs, so I do need to freshen it up.

“We’ve obviously got Mark O’Hara back again, (he’s) trained now for two or three weeks. It may be an opportunity for him.

“Big Mika, we thought may be better suited at Ibrox, given there’s a link-up to the game. He’s certainly in contention to start.

“It’s up to me to get the team right for Tuesday.”

The game will close a special year for St Mirren, who secured a third consecutive top-six finish and won their fifth major trophy.

Robinson said: “Me and my wife were walking our dogs the other day and we were talking, saying ‘what a year’.

“There were periods in that year where you thought we were never going to get to that stage. We weren’t going to get top six, but we did. Proved everybody wrong again.

“The cup competition and obviously winning it was an absolute highlight.

“It’s been a year that the football club will remember for a long, long time. The goal for 2026 is to try and catch the teams in front of us, keep this run going and try and get as many points as we can to look towards the top six and make sure of our safety in this division.”