It was one of those days for both sides at Love Street
The points were shared in a dismal draw at Love Street as St Mirren and Hibs failed to provide any entertainment.
A very poor first half ended with Hibs keeper Yves Ma-Kalambay pushing away a fierce shot from Franco Miranda.
Billy Mehmet made a mess of a header from six yards and his St Mirren strike partner Dennis Wyness failed to test Ma-Kalambay from similar range.
Hibs offered very little up front, with an effort from Derek Riordan their only threatening shot on target.
The Paisley club will move to a new stadium in January but few of the 4,588 fans who turned up on a cold Paisley day will take their memories of this match with them.
The highlight of the game came four minutes from the break when Ma-Kalambay made a decent diving save from Miranda's 25-yard drive.
Earlier, Garry Brady's shot was comfortably gathered by Ma-Kalambay, moments before Miranda's angled drive was deflected wide of the post.
Hibs looked a shadow of the side that troubled Celtic last week, failing to find any passing rhythm and posing no attacking menace.
After the interval, Dean Shiels released Riordan in to the left-hand side of the Saints penalty area with a fine pass inside defender Jack Ross.
However, the forward's first shot was blocked by Mark Howard and his second attempt was scuffed straight at the keeper, with two team-mates screaming for the ball to be placed across goal.
Saints striker Mehmet wasted a great chance bundled the ball wide from inside the six-yard box under pressure from Ian Murray.
In the 61st minute Saints midfielder Hugh Murray collected a Brady pass and crossed to the back post where Wyness controlled the ball well enough, but took too much time before delivering a weak shot which Ma-Kalambay saved with his legs.
Hibs midfielder Shiels took a Steven Fletcher knock down 25 yards from goal but volleyed wide of the target.
With ten minutes remaining, Howard made a competent save from Hibs substitute Fabian Yantorno and Fletcher headed the resulting corner over the crossbar and the game trundled erratically all to a disappointing conclusion.
St Mirren manager Gus MacPherson: "I thoroughly enjoyed the game and I thought we played extremely well. I was pleased with the way we passed the ball.
"The final ball wasn't quite what we hoped for, although there were half chances; edge of the box stuff but few clear-cut chances."
Hibernian manager Mixu Paatelainen: "I'm disappointed we didn't win the game started because we started positively and caused them problems in first 20 minutes.
"After that, we tended to sit back and our passing in the final third was very poor. We gave the ball away too easily.
"We were always on the front foot and had a couple of opportunities in the second half but we weren't sharp enough in the final third."
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