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on Facebook or Twitter December and I want to play as many games as I can and make up for lost time. If I can get through them pain free, then great.”

Hardie’s heroics completed a fine turnaround for the hosts, with a fizzing low shot from Scott Pitmann cancelling out Alfie Jones’ first-half opener for the Buddies.

Craig Sibbald went on to add gloss to the scoreline in the dying embers, tapping home his first goal for Livingston after Pittman, utterly magnificent after the break, had seen another effort spilled by Danny Rogers.

“We were too deep, sat in and got camped on the edge of our own box,” rued St Mirren scorer Jones.

“That allowed them to be more direct and get on top of us. We didn’t win our battles and it gave them the momentum and the goals. We need to step up to tests like that and be harder to beat, and see games out.”