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OnTheDucketFence

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  1. We need get our house in order, take stock and have a big reality check about our situation. In that, we need to realise there is absolutely no chance of us going up next season, given what our 'new rivals' are doing. Kelty have already given themselves what some are calling a Championship quality team, while we currently have no permanent manager, eight players of LL quality (or lower) and five board members who have been asked by the club's biggest shareholder to consider their positions. To blow the parachute payment money (£40,000 is it?) on trying to compete with the likes of Kelty Hearts and East Kilbride would be idiocy of the highest order. If we do have this ambitionless couple of years, what I feel is vitally important in that time is to re-engage and rebuild a completely fractured relationship with the local community and help to make it a club that people can be proud of. The 'local laddie' argument did my head in while we were in SPFL2 - folk within the town who never go to BRFC games saying there were plenty local players good enough to compete at that level. They simply weren't. Looking at it now though, I don't think we can comfortably say that and I think we'd be shooting ourselves in the foot if we didn't seriously consider how we go about our operations and considering moving training etc closer to home (although I'm aware facilities in Berwick are pish). Competition for players in the Edinburgh area has heightened significantly and with us not being able to blow fellow LL clubs out of the water financially, players are more likely to opt for a team in Edinburgh. Personally, over the next couple of years, I'd much rather see a Berwick side with 2 or 3 local players, finishing top half/mid table and the club doing more in the community than a side still based out of Edinburgh, blowing a tonne of cash and trying, but failing, to win promotion due being up against teams with superior quality and budgets. With every setback, there is an opportunity. This presents exactly that and it'll be interesting to see what happens...
  2. I genuinely fear for the long-term future of the club now. Weeks ago, with Harvey at the helm, he was attending matches in the north-east of England, speaking to players with a view to signing them next season, trying to lure them away with the fact they’ll be playing in a ‘professional league set-up’. This was just a matter of weeks ago, giving an idea of where the club’s head was at, with a complete ignorance and arrogance to the fact that we could go out of the SPFL, which is now going to happen. Presumably, this ‘plan’ will now all be in tatters, and I have little hope that there is any kind of contingency plan in place. If we thought it was difficult competing with just Edinburgh City for players, now the pool of clubs competing with us for players has increased ten-fold. The game yesterday was utterly shambolic. Second best to absolutely everything and seriously, we could have had no complaints had it been 6 or 7. It’s clear the squad completely lacks quality but in yesterday’s game, there didn’t seem to be any fight or desire either. It’s difficult to dig at the management team, who have had next to no time to try and sort this pish out, but I’ll always remember that in one of the most important games in the club’s history, our starting CM pairing was Declan O’Kane and Craig Hume. If ever there was something to epitomise how far we’ve fallen, that’s it
  3. In hindsight, I phrased this terribly. Either way, the club's official channels should be the first point of people knowing - not P&B hearsay. In that case, having told Johnny and knowing he would likely spread the word, something should have been put out last night. It was announced on social media anyway - not as a story on the site - so it would have taken 5 minutes to do. Instead, it appears over 12 hours later and after everyone knows. It's just amateurish.
  4. An absolutely necessary move, but not one I, or probably the majority of BRFC fans, take great pleasure in. At the end of the day, he's gone - albeit weeks too late. Like a previous poster has said, it should have been after Annan away. 6 goals in half an hour and getting a fan into the changing room post-match - why that didn't majorly set the alarm bells ringing I've no idea. In recent weeks, friends and family of players past and present castigated him on social media, a clear sign that he had completely lost the dressing room - yet nothing was done. However, our chances of getting out of this mess have been raised from none at all, to slim. What is completely unacceptable, though, is the fact that the rumour mill and P&B 'confirmation' started more than 12 hours before the official club announcement. This is downright embarrassing. How six board members can't keep their mouths shut until it has been made official on the BRFC website/social media accounts is absolutely pathetic. We've been a laughing stock on the field for all too long and it seems that's going to continue off the field for a while yet. Sad.
  5. Harvey OUT. At least to give us some hope ahead of the play-offs. Garbage.
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