St Mirren completed the half-mile flit to their new stadium on Saturday but good fortune has so far failed to follow them down the road.
The Paisley club officially opened their 8000-capacity arena and ushered in a new era after 115 years on Love Street only for celebrations to be muted slightly by their failure to collect all three points and by the feeling that they had once again been the victims of some second-rate refereeing.
The old ground will soon be no more - supporters enjoyed one final traipse across the turf at the weekend before the wrecking ball arrives - but an abundance of memories remain fresh in the mind.
Thus, when Alan Combe, the Kilmarnock goalkeeper, raced off his line to brutally upend Craig Dargo early in Saturday's opening match it did not take a leap of the imagination to draw comparisons with a similar incident not so long ago when the same player advanced on Artur Boruc and was chopped mercilessly to the ground.
The Celtic goalkeeper avoided a red card on that occasion and Combe was likewise shown clemency, gratefully accepting the yellow card shown to him, before composing himself to expertly stop Jim Hamilton's penalty kick. That it was the same referee on both occasions only added to the conspiracy theories as St Mirren fumed.
If a good referee is said to be one who is scarcely noticed during a match, then the omens do not look positive for Willie Collum, whose performance was monitored by 15 referees sitting in the stand as part of a Scottish FA training day.
Barely a weekend goes by these days without his name cropping up amid a latest bout of controversy. His readiness to allow goalkeepers to make reckless challenges aside, it was he who sent off Patrick Cregg and Sasa Papac in the recent match between Rangers and Falkirk at Ibrox, later rescinding the red card for Papac but upholding Cregg's.
John Hughes, the Falkirk manager, broke an agreement between managers not to criticise officials after that match, and Gus MacPherson, the St Mirren manager, similarly struggled to show restraint.
"We have an embargo on criticising referees but it was a stonewall red card," he said.
"I said at the time of the Boruc incident that if that challenge is made by an outfield player anywhere else in the park then you would expect a red card. There is no intent to go for the ball, none whatsoever."
The delay to allow treatment for the stricken Dargo - "I saw the guy rolling about and thought, this guy is dead," said David Fernandez, the Rugby Park forward - added further pressure on Hamilton after being presented with a golden chance to cancel out Kevin Kyle's opener for the visitors.
"It took that long to get to it with Craig being injured that I changed my mind about 10 times leading up to it," was the St Mirren striker's explanation for missing from 12 yards.
"I intended to put it in the other corner but in the last second I changed my mind. I'll know not to make that mistake ever again."
One striker who enjoyed a more productive afternoon was Kyle. The former Scotland forward had arrived at Rugby Park earlier in the week after a relatively unproductive tour of lower league clubs in England. In an impressive debut, he scored the first ever goal at the new stadium and, at 6ft 3in, proved a handful for the St Mirren defence.
"He was brilliant," admitted Fernandez. "He has a great presence, he's great in the air, and scored a brilliant goal. He holds the ball up and can pass well too. He wins everything in the air - sometimes he doesn't even need to jump.
It was amazing to watch and I thought he was terrific."
After the pre-match razzamatazz of fireworks, tickertape confetti, and the official opening by Alex Salmond, the first minister, it would have been something of an anti- climax if St Mirren's first match at their new stadium had ended in defeat.
That they didn't was down to Dennis Wyness, the striker clambering off the bench to stab in an equaliser after Combe had mishandled a cross.
"Dennis dug me out a hole," said a grateful Hamilton.
