gm_1982

Would these players demand big wages?

Very interesting. Fort is obvious, but how in f**k have Keith managed to use 47 players [emoji23]

No, I'm saying that they have a familiar starting 11 who have a great team spirit having played together for numerous years and they've had the luxury of selecting more or less the same 11-14 players just about all season. As mentioned above, they'll be ridiculously fortunate to be able to continue that consistency of team selection throughout the whole of next season too. In terms of personel, Brechin have the strongest squad and I don't think many could argue that, but it's one where team selection has only been remotely consistent for maybe a ew months. Think I read somewhere that we've used over 36 players over the course of the season - it was always going to be high whilst we rebuild and adjust to the HL but that should steady a fair bit next season with already over half the squad signed up.

There is zero evidence to suggest that they will either. I disagree with them having stronger squads than Brechin (at the moment - whether that’s still the case at the start of next season who knows). What they do have is a solid starting 11 who know each other well and played alongside each other for years. As I mentioned above both sides have been very fortunate with regards to injuries and if they were to have 4/5 players missing (which Brechin have had most of the season) then that’s where it would tell.

Not really, I don’t believe that either Broch or Buckie will be as consistent next season. Brechin will have a more settled squad than last summer which will hopefully be of benefit, but we will need to recruit well as you say. They have had a fair rub of the green in terms of injuries etc.

You've picked out their star strikers - what about the rest of the squad? Yes Brechin haven't got striker on 25+ goals like the other three teams but that could well be down to the fact that we've got 4/5 strikers on the books and have chopped and changed these all season. You could probably count on one hand the number of games that Barbour, Urquhart and Macrae have missed put together. If any of these players miss 6+ weeks in a season then I believe they would start to struggle against sides in the top half. Our season has more or less come down to that collapse from 3-0 up against Fraserburgh. The Broch and Buckie have been remarkable consistent this season but we haven't been far away.

Wood always put in a shift but his best days are long behind him I think. Not someone I’d have kept on. Good luck to him.

I’m sure Davidson, Bain and McHattie are all contracted for next season. Don’t think Cox is

I was a little confused as to why you are asking about beer gardens when the weather is so cold I must say [emoji23]

Isn’t it the top 2?

We were poor and deserved to lose those matches. Fraserburgh game we were 3-0 up going on 6 before we threw it and only a ridiculous goalkeeping error at Buckie stopped us from getting a point there.

7 But the answer is no unfortunately. Silly defeats against Fraserburgh and Buckie have cost us.

Ok, thanks for that.

Not even sure if you are being serious with this comparison. God help you if you are.

Would this be the ‘similar Angus club’ from a town 4 times the population of Brechin?