Jimmy Shaker

Says a lot for Buckie’s relationship with the concept of playing more than an hour from Queen Victoria Park that most aren’t believing them. Well, most on forums anyway - Pussbook is riddled with ‘Poor Buckie’ and ‘SFA stitch up’ but the clever, handsome folks on here and FitbaNorth have immediately seen through Buckie’s nonsense

Cove haven’t been a junior side since the 1980’s, blud.

You think the Buckie lot all play for sweeties?

You should just post the table, it’s worth it to get a laugh out of Brora, who took less points off the top clubs than Lossie did.

Fucking useless.

They shat their pants against Cowdenbeath at home, they'd enough chances to win the entire tie that afternoon. Edinburgh City put in a fucking masterclass on how to deal with Cove tho. That was some afternoon.

There’s some bizarre folk in their number, certainly. Sadly for those who are scared of the south, some of the Buckie squad are young, have a broader experience of other clubs, and are - when not baring their arses to Clach, Lossie and Vale - quite professional in their behaviour, and may want more out of their career than playing in Banff and Grantown forever more. I did see the improvement Cove had to make to make it through the playoffs at the third attempt, and Buckie aren’t anywhere near where Cove were when they blitzed East Kilbride and Berwick, however.

Even if the money is if no relevance to the support, it’s got to be worth the novelty of going up even if it’s just for a season. I’m very sure Brora have long regretted not managing to follow through on their Montrose double header. And FFS, Buckie could yet head into an SPFLLT which has Elgin, Forfar and Peterhead in it. If Stranraer were to go down at their expense, I dunno how much more miles they’d end up doing a season. Not enough to justify Buckie fans googling if they’ve to wind on their watches when they pass south of Stirling, I’d imagine.

Buckie fans ‘elsewhere’ always freak when there’s a chance they’re to turn over more than one page of their 1994 AA Big Book of Roads to find where they’re going if it’s south of Stonehaven. Curiously this didn’t seem to stop them all trundling down to Celtic Park with their new scarves, price tags still attached. Who in their right mind wants to play Keith and Rothes forever? Staying where they are earns them next to no prize money. League Two is a land of riches compared to stopping in the SHFL, and the suits know it.

You’re allowed to refer to FitbaNorth by name, cov.

The fans hate the idea of nae gettin’ hame in time fir wir supper. The club, however, is well aware of the money involved and, like Brechin, needs promotion quickly.

Buddie L assures us all the floodlights are coming by boat, so for Vale’s sake I hope not.

Vale love Buckie so much they rolled over and let them rack up the goals this afternoon.

No wonder he’s hiding in there, I can only imagine it’s some kind of distraction therapy from this shitshow.

Buckie's money men have done the sums, and know the value of promotion. There's zero money to be made staying in the SHFL, and Buckie need significantly more than zero money to fund that squad.

Their pish never stopped, it just got put to one side as they were winning occasionally. They’re always going to be a bit div but this latest episode is a farce. Notice my emphasis on the word farce.

Robbed by being shite. Lossie scored on 90+1 and 90+3. The hundred minute hooter wasn’t sounded today, despite what these whining bairns will have you believe.

Glorious.

Winning the league is only half the battle for Brechin.

Deveronvale? More like Deveronfail.

You’d have thought after watching Strathspey complete a league double over Vale today, Banffers would be keeping quiet. They are, however, not a clever people.

Another stellar contribution.

‘Always a tough place to go, they’re a team still with plenty to play for ahead of the close season so we know it’ll be a difficult afternoon, but the lads are well up for it and desperate not to repeat the midweek result. Hopefully the fans have plenty to cheer at full time, they’ve been great all season and we need to keep them onside’. Something like that?

Not in this league it ain't. Likely (and eventual) SHFL champions lap up the pressure. Points dropped in the last ten games of the season... 2022/23 - Brechin (winners) - 4; Buckie (runners up) - 5 2021/22 - Fraserburgh (winners) - 0; Buckie (runners up) - 2 2018/19 - Cove Rangers (winners) - 4; Brora Rangers (runners up) - 8, all from draws 2017/18 - Cove Rangers (winners) - 6, all after clinching the title; Formartine United (runners up) - 0 If a team is into the home stretch and still fucking up, they probably ain't winning the league.