Saints have teamed up with Panini to give yougsters the chance to collect, swap and play to win your favourite SPL players with Super Strikes - the official trading card game of The Scottish Premier League.

This season Panini are bringing you the most comprehensive trading card collection devoted to the League’s top talent.

There are 288 cards to collect - that’s a whopping 24 cards per team:

* 216 Standard player cards
* 12 Super foil club captain cards
* 12 super foil shot stopper cards
* 24 Glitter foil star player cards
* 12 Glitter foil fans’ favorite cards
* PLUS NEW THIS SEASON! 12 Super foil emboss ultimate cards with extra special powered up player ratings!.

Each card contains statistical information, as well as player ratings and scores, so as your collection begins to grow, you can pick your own dream team and formation like a real manager, and play the trading card game against your friends, to build your collection.

For just £3.99 there is also an awesome SPL Super Strikes starter pack which includes a game board, rules sheet, a 16 page collector’s binder and 18 starter game cards.

And there is a great chance to kick start your collection this weekend.

A free pack of cards will be given to each member of the Super J’s supporters club at their pre-match club and in addition we have a pack of cards to give away to the first 600 youngsters requesting a pack at the Souvenir Shop in the Ormond Stand.

And that’s not all – you can get a further free packet of trading cards by using a voucher which will be printed in the Saturday’s match day programme for the game against Kilmarnock PLUS there’s £1 off the cost of the Super Strikes starter pack.

To claim your packet of cards and starter pack discount all you have to do is take along the voucher from the programme to any Panini stockist. The full collection is on sale now from all good newsagents, so what are you waiting for? Get Super Striking today!

Starter Pack: £3. 99p
Packets (containing 6 cards each): 50p

The Official 2010 St Johnstone FC calendar is now on sale priced at £8.25.

Once again, we have used the photographs of Official Club Photographer Graeme Hart of Perthshire Picture Agency to produce this month-to-a-page calendar which has a full colour photo of one of your favourite Saints players on each page, together with plenty of room to jot down those important diary dates.

The calendar, together with a full range of other souvenirs is available from the McDiarmid Park reception between 9am and 5pm weekdays, from the Club Shop before and after this week's home game against Kilmarnock, from Campus Sports in Perth's High Street and can be ordered on-line: On-line store

WIN A SIGNED CALENDAR - We have three calendars signed by each of the players featured on the twelve months to give away in a great competition. To enter, simply e-mail the answer to the question below to paul@perthsaints.co.uk

Closing date for entries is 5pm on Tuesday 8th December.

QUESTION: Which former Saints stalwart has recently taken over as manager of Arbroath FC?

Still on Christmas gift ideas, the 125th Anniversary DVD can also be pre-ordered and will be on sale in the next week. When launched it will also be available from the outlets detailed above.

The draw for the fourth round of the Active Nations Scottish Cup was made in the Scottish Football Museum at Hampden Park this afternoon and Saints have been handed an away tie against Forfar Athletic.

The match is scheduled for Saturday 9th January 2010. The Angus side are managed by Dick Campbell and will be a tough proposition on their tight Station Park pitch.

This will be the seventh time that we have met Forfar in the Scottish Cup but only the second time we have met them at their own ground. Saints have won five out of the six previous ties.

You have to go back to 1974 for the only time we visited Station Park on Scottish Cup business – a Sunday fixture saw a 6-1 win for Saints with Jim Pearson scoring a hat trick, John Muir twice and Gordon Smith.

The last Scottish Cup tie between the sides was in season 1998/99 when they visited McDiarmid Park and a John O’Neil goal brought a 1-0 home win.

The full fourth round draw

Inverness CT v Motherwell
Hamilton Accies v Rangers
Morton or Dumbarton v Celtic
Hibs v Irvine Meadow
St Mirren v Cowdenbeath or Alloa Ath
Raith Rovers or Peterhead v Airdrie United
Dunfermline Ath v Stenhousemuir or Cove Rangers
Forfar Ath v St Johnstone
Clyde or Livingston v Dundee
Albion Rovers v Stirling Albion
Aberdeen v Hearts
Edinburgh City v Montrose
Partick Thistle v Dundee United
Ross County v Inverurie Locos
Ayr Utd v Wick Academy
Kilmarnock v Falkirk