Paisley feels ‘like home away from home’ for Baccus

Keanu Baccus has “more to show” for St Mirren as he settles into life back at the Paisley club, after his brief sojourn to Mansfield Town.

The Australia international joined the League One club last summer but only spent a season in England before returning north of the border.

“I want to do my all on the pitch for this club,” he told BBC Scotland. “They gave me the chance from Australia.

“It’s definitely a home away from home. I definitely want to do more and I’ve got more to show than last time, so I just want to improve each week and get better as a player and hopefully help the team climb up that ladder.”

Buddies manager Stephen Robinson admitted the move to get Baccus back all happened quite quickly, when he heard the midfielder would be moving on from Mansfield last week.

Asked if there were other options on the table, Baccus replied: “Oh, it doesn’t matter now. We’re at St Mirren, we signed and I’m happy to be here so I just want to get cracking.”

“My partners family’s here, my baby’s from here, so it’s great to have that comfortability off the pitch but ultimately I want those performances on the pitch as well.”

Baccus helped St Mirren to Europe in his first spell, while also making it to the 2022 World Cup where he started against Argentina in the round of 16.

“We want to go in Europe again. I had to watch from a distance last season when they were there, and it looked great, I want to experience that myself.”