Cold Feet
-
Posts
758 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Events
Store
Posts posted by Cold Feet
-
-
On 13/06/2023 at 16:14, mo83 said:
What sort of cash did Brechin get for winning the HL?
£4k.
1 -
14 hours ago, Brechin City FC said:
It would have been nice if there was a bit more transparency around it. Supporters shouldn't have to go to the club to ask the question.
This was one of the complaints aimed at the previous committee.
Hard to make a decision on no information from SFA. And not just the slim pickings that are public but the detail.
Anyway it'll not matter how the vote goes cause SFA are saying it will happen. Yet again all the lower levels get a shafting from the ruling body.
0 -
On 02/06/2023 at 18:51, welshbairn said:
Biggest player budget in the league I've been told.
nothing to write home about as the benchmark is not high.
0 -
On 21/05/2023 at 21:27, Old Fashioned Stramash said:
How much will relegation to the LL financially hurt Albion? What will they lose not being an SFL team?
Like others have said, their set-up hasn't done them any favours. Perhaps a stint in the LL to reconstruct and develop could turn out to be favourable in the long term?
We got £60k parachute payment and £5k for winning HL.
3 -
On 19/05/2023 at 20:07, theoriginalhedge said:
Or his wage demands.
Montrose paid £25k for him and £400 / week for 3 year deal. When did they get so minted?
0 -
19 hours ago, Jimmain said:
Surely common sense will prevail. From all my reading on this though will it actually matter what the 'diddy' clubs/associations think or want?
Have a horrible feeling we'll be landed with this shambles whether clubs and supporters want it or not...
If pretty much all 42 SPFL clubs vote for it, 5 tier and beyond leagues makes no difference what they think. Maxwell et al want this to happen. With a league of ten, made up of say 4 B teams means that these B (u21) trams will be playing loads of U21 teams. The idea was to give them experience of playing men and being in a stronger position to break through to the first team. that aside it will be a hard sell in hospitality for Hearts U21's. Who wants that? So the monies being offered would not compensate for lost revenue.
There are still many unknowns re promotion out and into conference league.
Why not get the 42 clubs to vote on a bigger Lg 2 sick in the B teams plus 4 from HL / LL and play 34 games a season? This not me advocating for the B teams but if they are why not in an expanded Lg2? 2 down with the HL / LL champions going up automatically. And third bottom club doing a playoff with the runners up of the HL / LL league.
-1 -
21 hours ago, welshbairn said:
After admitting he took money for getting a yellow card I doubt he'll be playing anywhere for a while after the SFA enquiry. He only got off with a not proven verdict in court because he claimed he forgot all about the bet and his card was just a coincidence.
The way his interview in press went he is looking to be closer to home and either in the same or higher league - so we are out of the picture and not sure with his SFA investigation to be completed anyone will pay out Elgins transfer demands.
0 -
Yep Brechin poor.
I could see what the tactics were trying to achieve but it did not work with so many being off the boil.
If we are talking about the keepers red card - it probably was then there was another similar incident where Spartans should have had one, very similar to the one where a red was shown. Twice we were breaking through and twice a defender sliced them down. One a red the other not?
Either way we need to be much better to progress.
0 -
2 hours ago, TheScarf said:
Looked about 2000. The covered terrace where I was standing was pretty full. There was actually more Brechin fans there than I expected which made the ground look a lot fuller than I thought it would.
As for the game, it was terrible, but probably expected due to no one wanting to make any mistakes. The 2 best teams in the league by a mile and I'm still waiting for some football to be played.
I can imagine for the neutral it was not great. However deciders and many cup finals are not. Its more about the winning and I was a bag of nerves from start o finish - a magic day in the end.
I also think, considering our run in of having played Saturday / Wednesday for weeks with Brora x1 and Fraserburgh x2 and then Buckie on final day it was a tough ask but a monumental effort by all to get over the line.
3 -
3 hours ago, welshbairn said:
I wouldn't worry, it could all be over for you tomorrow.
Glebe Park's the only HL ground that I've ever been searched at, you lot need to chill out, police and segregation indeed! 
Just trying to raise the standards
0 -
7 minutes ago, virginton said:
Winning zero games from 36 is not about promotion and relegation. It's about a 'football club' taking the piss out of the system.
Fortunately you were punished for that with unceasing failure and being emptied from the national league system, which is why you're down here, mewling about the injustice of it all.
Whatever, we are still taking up one of your two brain cells.
1 -
I see Buckie is taking seriously the safety and security of all fans going to the game next week.
No Police, no tickets and no segregation (will they even bother with stewards?) - should be a fun day.
0 -
1 hour ago, virginton said:
At least they're not going up to the next level with a gang of a team, pocketing the hospitality money from two visits from Dundee United, and getting relegated without winning a single league game all season.
That would be making a mockery of the pyramid system.
I see your love in for all things Brechin is still strong. Promotion and relegation has been a thing long before the pyramid process so a moot point from you there
0 -
4 hours ago, Jimmain said:
Dav just doesnae like the Buckie Jags very much for some reason...
can't ever remember a Vale/Buckie rivalry being so much of a 'thing' back in my Viccy Park-going days tbh, although when I was a loon Keith were the team to beat in the HL...which kind of dates me a bit.
Must admit I'd love to see Buckie win the thing but a bit of me would rather see a proper challenge in the Play Offs, which I kind of doubt Buckie will provide, given the folk on here saying they are still not keen on moving up...?!?
From my travels no HL team are interested in going up. They just want to knock out more HL titles, which makes a mockery of the pyramid system.
-2 -
On 10/04/2023 at 12:49, LongTimeLurker said:
You might be a wee bit biased on this being from Lossiemouth. Brechin's problem is how long they can sustain paying extra to central belt players of the necessary calibre to do all the travelling. Four more midweek games to accomodate having Elgin aboard wouldn't do them any favours from that standpoint. If they don't do it this season they need Elgin around like a hole in the head.
Most if the players are not central; Dundee, Perth, Fife and of course Brechin. Think we have two from Glasgow area.
0 -
Well, having had time to reflect on the game I have concluded that no team performed well.
Fraserburgh set their stall out early and did a lot of hoof ball into the night sky with the hope of getting something, they kicked, digged, poked, irritated everyone at every turn. But hay if it works for you well done but it aint pretty. Unfortunately for us we then got involved and never looked like getting our game going.
That said I thought our defence was our strongest part of the game as we created the same chances as Fraserburgh - very little.
As for the penalty? Well, I never understand why it is not decided on training nights who takes them. All that debate looked a bit daft and then Botti stopped to re spot the ball, for it to move back again from where he moved it. Either way not the best spot kick and saved. And he red card - nae sure but others felt not, their keeper (and not alone in this) took every opportunity to scream in agony and then roll about a bit before springing up.
I would, like many supporters know why he keeps hooking Grady.
In conclusion the point might be a good one but equally the penalty miss may well cost us. I hope Botti got it large after the game, appreciate the manager is publicly being supportive and positive but think in the dressing room he was raging.
Still all in our hands and we go forward to next game.
0 -
Its not over but a tough gig for Brechin in the run in.
0 -
44 minutes ago, newcastle broon said:
What about emptying their pockets ?
It's non league football,a dad wi his 13 year old kid ffs.
There's even cans sold at non league grounds.
Some stewards are just p***ks on ego trips,there was one at Stenhousemuir a few year ago similar.
No cans at our ground, maybe cause we are in the league system. No idea re pocket search but we have had 13 year olds attempt to get flairs in and some have hence maybe pocket search.
From what I saw stewards were polite and just following protocol.
21 minutes ago, welshbairn said:It doesn't happen anywhere else in the Highland League. Obviously if you walk through the gate with a crate of Buckfast they'll probably not let you in.
Correct cause they have no stewards and have no ambition to leave the highland league so therefore are not trying to have the SPFL criteria in place.
0 -
15 hours ago, newcastle broon said:
Colleague of mine visited Saturday with his kid. Bag searched 3 times then both told to empty pockets.Wee bit over the top. Needless to say he won't be in a rush to go back.
I witnessed this and not true, searched once as is practice with anyone with a bag. They had 2 bottles taken off then, again stipulation is no bottles allowed in regardless if plastic and this is what made your colleague unhappy - stewards following the law.
0 -
59 minutes ago, welshbairn said:
I have my doubts about this with half the opposition being in or around Aberdeenshire. One trip a year to Wick won't break the bank.
Parks bus is used, we generally get the same bus that Celtic or Rangers use as they have a kitchen, the players get fed on bus as getting to somewhere in time for a feed was, logistically not working out. There is also a caterer on board, which also has costs. It all adds up. Assume we were in SPFL most travelling would be done with players driving to games as mostly in central belt. You can see quite quickly how the traveling in the Highland league adds up.
We also, likely paying over the odds to get players to come to the Highland League, a bit of a hard sell with all that traveling, something that might not be so necessary when traveling is removed.
Whilst our support is up most of the HL clubs do not bring much support, if any. Again in SPFL there is generally a bus load or so.
You can quickly see how costs mount up or not as the case might be.
3 -
1 hour ago, Dav nan Gael said:
April 22nd Buckclowns v Brechin
Should be done n dusted in BCFC's favour by then ..............
Hopefully or it will be a booting match. Might be that anyway
1 -
4 hours ago, Chrisrush1471 said:
That's Arnott confirmed as recalled
Be straight into your team then.
0 -
On 11/01/2023 at 15:25, Enigma said:
Probably doesn’t look great on those highland league tattie fields. Imagine he spends most of the minutes he has played watching the ball fly over his head.
Mmm, Not watched much HL have you. Several decent pitches (including ours) and we try and play footy the right way. If he can not fit into that then too bad.
1 -
44 minutes ago, TxRover said:
OK, so that’s two on the bench? Plus maybe a sore MacDonald?
Could you please recall Arron Arnott. Not offered much and is benched even when we are short on numbers. So much for you lot saying he was too good for us.
0
Glebe Park's the only HL ground that I've ever been searched at, you lot need to chill out, police and segregation indeed! 
The Brechin City Thread
in North Pyramid
Posted
We have played Fraserburgh 6 times since we went into Hihgland Leagues, lost 4, won 1 and drawn 1. So Andy Kirk also couldn't crack them with any regularity
Still top by a bit.