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St Andrews away please.

Guff.

I would like an away trip to Clachnacuddin or Deveronvale or Formantine or Nairn or Turriff or Golspie or Strathspey or St Andrews or Tayport or Wick. No disrespect to any of them, but don't want a trip away to a team from the west and don't want anyone in the Lowland League. Much as I like going to Berwick as well, I hope we aren't drawn away to them.

Easy, easy. Berwick are absolute dross.

With a fully fit squad, I think we would comfortably win today, maybe even win by a big margin, but 4 key players out will make a difference. Hopefully we still play well enough to get a good win, but it wouldn't be a surprise if we draw or lose. The players on the fringes of the team are starting to play better as well. I assume Calum will have to watch from the stand today. On the early train down via Edinburgh. Hopefully no train issues , although the first train we were planning to get was cancelled and ScotRail are not even on strike!

We received 125 tickets for the game at K Park. As for the second leg at CP, it was not ticketed, so how could the stands be sold out? The new stand would have been full fairly quickly, but there was room in the old stand. I was there and there were fans supporting EK next to me.

Another promising signing as well tonight. We have goals galore in the team now.

Get a grip. The front of shirt sponsor will not make a penny from sponsorship of Cowden. They know that full well. If they were meticulous with every pound spent on advertising the business, they wouldn't go near sponsoring a Lowland League club. I was only stating a personal preference. You guys do an amazing job for club, but you are a bit over touchy .

Why? A lot of fans have the same opinion. In fact, I remember some posts in recent years asking if the top was available without the sponsor.

Excellent work and the other sponsors on the strip look actually look good. I was just stating a personal preference. The red in the Collier logo and the size of the logo clashes with the colour of the strip. Personally I think most sponsors on the front ruin the look, but beggars can't be choosers. What I meant re some sponsors not being that bothered, is that at lower levels they know the limited exposure is not going to make any difference to their business. Like Collier or Subsea for instance. Being on a Cowden top isn't going to make them any money. They don't do it for that reason.

I think at this level the sponsors aren't so bothered.

A pound short of £50 for the new top! We must easily be the most expensive in the League at that price. I would actually pay more for it without the front sponsor. I see EK sell theirs with or without the sponsor (£3 extra for the sponsor printed on).

The new top would look really good without the big red and blue sponsor on the front. Wonder how easy it is to remove .

You would think probably not if they are just announcing some more sponsors for the shirt.

Yeah, strange. We finished 15th in the Lowland League and we released him. Was ok when playing at start of season, but as I said, we finished 15th and could have been worse if it wasn't for Dalbeattie and Edinburgh Uni.

They have to. The money man has gone. They won't be able to afford them now.

Yeah. Edinburgh Uni must be really unpredictable. I assume, maybe wrongly, that they only field current students, assuming they don't already play for another team (our best player from last season is an Edinburgh Uni student). Is there a rule re who can play for them? Uni of Stirling are a bit different, as they attract some decent players, as they specialise in sports courses.

Don't want to tempt fate, but we (Cowden) are looking like we will be vastly improved on the season just ended. All the new signings look decent, not just a few of them. The business we are doing and the speed at which we are doing it is something I have never seen in all the years supporting the club. All of this was arranged before we were given the shock cup invite as well. It's well and truly like night and day compared to last season. We won't know of course until we start actually playing matches again, but if things go well, we could be a serious challenger. Not something most of us thought would be the case.

I am not so sure that other clubs are badly run. More a case of them simply not having enough income. Most of the teams in League 2 simply do not generate anywhere near enough revenue to meet their costs.

I hope you do. Good luck.

I have to say it's the most positive pre season I can ever remember, by a long shot! Most seasons we would be signing just a few players who were a complete gamble or a bit meh and not getting most of the targets we aimed for. The players we are signing are players we would usually lose out on. I am starting to think we might actually compete.

I genuinely wish you well, but reality is about to hit. You got where you did because of the sugar daddy. Everyone knows that. No other reason. Community club is all very well, but that's easy when you are having success. It's money that gets the success that you had. Not having a community club or a busy social club. It's frightening the amount of money that is required to compete, even in League 2. You are heading back to the Lowland League and I think deep down you know that yourself. I hope you survive and wish you good luck.

I think he will. Sometimes it just doesn't work at some clubs. No disrespect, but it must be hard getting motivated playing for clubs like East Kilbride.

Not for long. Watch Kelty plummet now that the money man has gone. FC Edinburgh will struggle as well now.

Looks like we have goals galore in the team now and still more players to come on board.