St Mirren Girls have by no means been higher ready to make a giant noise within the new SWF League One.
And head coach Kate Cooper hopes her facet will take to the stage on the SMISA Stadium once more in some unspecified time in the future throughout the course of this season.
The Buddies warmed up for his or her curtain-raiser in opposition to Grampian Women this Sunday by attending Scottish pop duo The Eves latest headline gig in Glasgow, whose hit Massive Love is the official music for the upcoming Championship and League One campaigns.
After a full pre-season schedule that included a historic first European match in Germany, Cooper believes St Mirren Girls are able to make an even bigger identify for themselves in Scottish ladies’s soccer.
She hopes much more Saints supporters will get alongside to Mossedge Village this weekend to again the membership, whereas additionally revealing talks are already underway in a bid to see the ladies’s crew play extra league matches on the SMISA Stadium.
Their first look on the Paisley floor in 2019 drew a formidable crowd of 900 Buddies.
Cooper instructed Renfrewshire Stay Sport: “We’ve been working with The Eves over the summer season they usually got here alongside after we hosted the brand new season launch occasion.
“The gig was good. Lots of our gamers went alongside and it was very nice they highlighted we have been there to the gang after they performed Massive Love.
“We’ve received to be intelligent about how we promote ladies’s soccer they usually’ve been wonderful as far as we attempt to carry the sport to extra individuals.
“I feel it’s vital to cease evaluating the lads’s and girls’s video games. When you have a look at the Euros simply there, it confirmed there’s help for each.
“It proved that folks can help each, it’s not about choosing one or the opposite.
“We’d like to get extra individuals alongside to our video games this season, particularly St Mirren supporters. I do know it will make an enormous distinction as we attempt to develop the membership.
“We’re going to start out recording and selling the attendances this season, as a result of typically individuals assume there’s no crowds at ladies’s video games. One other means we’re hoping to get in entrance of the supporters extra is to have a couple of video games on the stadium in Paisley this season.
“That might be a vastly thrilling probability for our gamers and we’re hopeful that can occur after some preliminary talks we’ve had with the membership.
“It might be a fantastic second for the ladies’s recreation, our gamers and our supporters.”
First up for St Mirren Girls this weekend is a gap day conflict in opposition to Grampian Women, which kicks off at 3.30pm at Mossedge Village in Linwood.
Cooper feels her gamers are in higher form than ever earlier than heading into their first league fixture after getting a extra skilled pre-season beneath their belts. She stated: “We’ve not performed Grampian earlier than as they performed within the north league final season. As a result of restructure we’re now in the identical division.
“Fortunately now we’ve received expertise of enjoying an unknown amount from our journey to Germany. We simply must deal with ourselves.
“We need to play thrilling, high-pressing soccer this season and everyone seems to be raring to go.
“It’s been a dramatic change in preparation this yr. We’ve performed all the things we may to get the gamers prepared by way of pre-season video games and journeys they usually really feel much more ready to get going.
“The preparation for this season in comparison with the previous few is night time and day. We’ve had a correct pre-season and confronted lots of distinction challenges.”