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Surely a Player/Manager is going to be captain whenever he is on the field?! Besides our Club Captain Jonathan Page hasn’t been playing and the fact he didn’t even come on today after our centre half got sent off would suggest he isn’t fancied. Can’t argue on the second point, it’s going to be a two way fight for 9th this season.

Let’s get real here, Michael O’Neill wasn’t offered a near 3 year deal and would doubt there have been any longer than the two year deal handed to Dods at the end of the promotion season. Nobody is criticising the appointment of Paton in itself. He may well prove to be an excellent manager and I sincerely hope he does. It’s more how quick it has happened when perhaps we should have evaluated how things go over the next week or two first. The length of the contract concerns me, however I can only hope/assume that there is some form of clause included that isn’t going to f**k the club over should things not go to plan.

Michael O’Neill wasn’t offered a near 3 year contract.

I’m trying to get my head round why we have handed out a near 3 year deal to someone that has only managed one game (albeit he done very well). A very risky decision in our current predicament and one that I hope pays off. If it doesn’t there will be major questions being asked of current committee. Do I think he’s the right man to take us forward? Quite possibly but it’s far too early to make a bold call quite like that in my opinion. Come on City

Another week, another embarrassing performance. Defence is laughable, you don’t even see that kind of stuff in pub league.

I agree that picking out individuals for criticism on here isn’t the answer but the reality is neither of our goalkeepers are good enough. In my opinion this should have been one our main priorities in the summer. We were still in the game yesterday when Lewis needlessly opted to punch away a cross and not very well. This put the defence under unnecessary pressure and we end up conceding a penalty as a result. Equally in his defence, the players in front of him aren’t protecting him enough either.

Both teams are out, who cares.

We need a decent keeper. McMinn is a backup at best. Wasn’t helped out by a dithering defence though.

Paton should be an excellent addition. Plenty of options going forward now.

Looking forward to watching the stream. Haven’t been able to watch the last couple of games but would seem as if this young squad is already showing signs of clicking together. Hopefully more positives to take tomorrow ahead of two very tough Betfred matches.

Doesn’t look as if Montrose have been producing highlights from their friendlies.

Watched the game on Montrose stream, for such a young team I thought we were very composed on the ball and played some nice stuff. Bodes well.

I liked Olly as his attitude was spot on and worked hard for the team but other than that Cowden game in December his end product was lacking. Potential is there, but he was extremely raw.

Jacko has been a superb player for us over the years but think he had declined a fair bit in the last couple of seasons. Certainly looked a shadow of himself in the games towards the end of last season. Good luck to him.

Maybe only played 4 games but didn’t see anything that would have made me want him to stay at Brechin. Games passed him by, extremely lazy and shirks out of challenges. Be interesting to see how he gets on.

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Agree with that, think Inglis is a really tidy player.

Was only going by the number of substitute appearances over the last couple of years, which would be suggestive he wouldn’t be able to demand such a healthy part time wage. I’d expect someone like Jackson to be on that kind of figure. Not doubting at all he would be a good addition - we need fit guys who are willing to work hard. Last season we had too many players with decent pedigrees but just didn’t seem to give a flying f**k. Thankfully all of them are now gone and we’ve offered deals to those who had some heart whenever they played.

I’m assuming we’ll start paying as soon as per-season starts, just like any other season. I’m not expecting us to have most of our squad signed up yet like a number of teams have already but some progress on that front would be good, even a few new contracts signed to give us a base to build on.

My point is that these players have been offered new contracts weeks ago - surely at least a few of these have signed by now? If they have only agreed and haven’t signed along the dotted line yet...why not? What is Mark and Stevie doing at the moment?

Why would we pay £250 p/w to someone who, as someone else has mentioned, has proven nothing to be more than a bit-part player in league 1. We offered contract extensions to a handful of players weeks and weeks ago, how it is even possible that we’ve not heard whether they have signed or gone elsewhere yet?! Yes there is still plenty of time until the season starts but we are so far behind other teams yet again. That’s been several seasons now with different managers at the helm - where does the problem lie?

Brechin getting it tight on social media because we’ve been spared of relegation and think there is a conspiracy theory because Ken Ferguson is on the SPFL committee. Quite surprisingly, I’m also seeing a number of pundits who are supposed to know a lot about our game very confused as to why we haven’t been tarred with the same brush as Partick and Stranraer (and likely Hearts). Are these people aware that there is a playoff system at the bottom of league 2 and not automatic relegation?

Supporters Club have started a gofundme account with every penny going towards the club during these difficult times. https://www.gofundme.com/f/brechin-city-supporters-club

I stopped reading once I got to here tbh.

What improvements? Other than those two matches recently in which we kept clean sheets (offering very little threat at the other end as a result) we’ve still been leaking soft goals left right and centre. Mark has come in at a difficult time and his hands are a little tied but 3 wins in 24 matches is a dire record in any case. He’s been backed well in January but despite what you say I don’t think we are much stronger. On paper, yes, but these players are either unfit or underperforming. There are far too many players that are overweight which is affecting us greatly, why can’t the coaching staff see this!