I want clean sheet over scoresheet

BY ALAN MARSHALL KIRK BROADFOOT admits he won’t be the solution to St Mirren’s goalscoring woes – as he’s too old now to be rampaging up the park.

The defender liked nothing more than to bomb forward from the back during his first spell at the club.

Saints, though, have scored just three times this season and will be desperate to add to that tally against bottom side St Johnstone.

But Broadfoot says he now cares more about clean sheets than chipping in with goals and assists.

The 35 year-old said: “When I was first here you could have said I was more of an attacking defender.

“I was part of a back three then and I was on the left side of that. So I had Andy Millen behind me telling me to get forward.

“I’m more like Andy now – I’m telling the younger ones to go up!

“I see a clean sheet as my job done whereas back then all I cared about was trying to get a goal.”

Broadfoot has returned with bags of experience from time at Rangers, Kilmarnock and in England.

And the stopper said: “I’ve been bringing younger boys on for the last few years. I was one of the older heads at Killie and built up a good relationship with Stuart Findlay.

“He’s doing well just now. So I try to help everyone around me that I can. I try to share any experience I have as a player.”

And Broadfoot was delighted to see Findlay score on his Scotland debut against San Marino.

He said: “I texted him. It was always coming. Big Stu has come on leaps and bounds the last two years.”

The Buddies got a boost on the eve of today’s game as midfielder Cammy MacPherson, 20, signed a two-year extension until 2022.