Morton travel to Greenhill Road for their first competitive match in Paisley since losing a Challenge Cup quarter-final on penalties at Love Street over a decade ago. And Tidser, who missed the first meeting this term due to injury, has featured in a Renfrewshire Cup final at the Saints’ new stadium and expects a special occasion this weekend.

He told the Tele: “I’m looking forward to the game. We were speaking about the derby in the shower right after the match on Saturday.

“We are all buzzing for it and I was asking some of the lads if they had played up there before. I’ve played there with Morton in the Renfrewshire Cup obviously so have an idea what it will be like.

“See derby games, I love playing away. I love playing at Cappielow, don’t get me wrong, but see if you can go and beat your rivals on their own territory it’s sweet, very, very sweet.

“The fans will be out in numbers. There’s no doubt they’ll fill up that back end behind the goal and hopefully we can go and put in a performance.” Tidser was forced off injured in Saturday’s 2-0 win over Queen of the South due to an adductor injury, but expects to be fit to face the Saints.

He explained: “I slipped on the pitch after about half an hour and felt both sides go; it was my groin, around the pubic bone area.

“I said to Alyson [Fielding, Morton physio] at half-time and she said ‘See how it goes.’ I was fine with that but even when we took centre and I played a pass out to Mark Russell I felt it. I stayed on another 10 minutes or so. They had a couple of corners and I thought it wasn’t a good time to come off.

“But then I went to try and close Ryan Conroy down and I couldn’t get near him because I couldn’t really push off [to run]. It was then said to Alyson I had to come off.

“After the match it felt alright, much better than it did half an hour earlier, so I think I made the right decision to come off when I did.

“I got my feet up that night, iced it and took anti-inflammatories to get it to settle down. I trained on Tuesday, so hopefully I’ll be in contention for Friday.” The injured playmaker was replaced with Joe McKee in the 59th minute of the win over the Doonhamers.

But he departed with his side in the lead, having played an important part in the opening goal with an assist for Denny Johnstone.

Tidser fired a square pass into the striker’s feet before he curled home, and the 25-year-old revealed it was a goal straight from the training ground.

He said: “The manager had a wee joke with me after the game saying they kept me on to get the assist before bringing me off.

“It was nice to set Denny up. Stef McCluskey took a quick free-kick, and I was going to cross it but saw Denny out the corner of my eye and fired it into him as hard as I could.

“Denny and I have been doing a bit in training very, very similar to that. We stayed behind with Hagi [assistant manager Craig McPherson] a couple of days last week to work on it.

“I actually did a very similar one in first half, reversing it in to Denny. He took a touch and the boy’s got across [to block].

“If he takes a better touch he maybe gets his shot away, but when it happened again he did and scored with a great finish. It was all about his touch, that sets him up.

“I said to him after: ‘It just shows you that [the extra work pays off]’.” Tidser was exasperated at having to come off, however, as he was feeling as though he was just starting to find his form after a frustrating period on a personal level.

He added: “I’ve been frustrated with myself recently. My touches have been a bit baggy and I’m not my usual self.

“I don’t know why, but on Saturday I was starting to feel a wee bit like myself. I did. I felt good. I was enjoying being out there.

“That’s me properly finding my feet with a good few games under my belt and got to know new players.

“Although I picked up that wee slight knock, I can carry this on. Everybody plays with confidence, and if I’m playing, doing well and the boys are winning, I’m happy.”