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1 minute ago, theoriginalhedge said:
This season he has been backed financially . The players he brought in all had a good reputation and were starting to show a bit of what they could do against Montrose , Farfar and for long spells against United. The experienced guys he brought in last season let him down badly so I personally think trying some younger , hungrier lads this time might have been the answer. I just hope they can start to show the potential from pre -season .
As I said earlier, I think Barron will make a difference when he returns as he was the organiser in midfield in the earlier games and showed why he is the Scotland U19 captain .
Where has the manager been backed? It’s a team of kids, they won’t be costing us very much if anything, there’s a massive difference from 19s football to first team football, hopefully we get a few gems and we come good I genuinely hope we can I just don’t see it just now. Pining our hopes on a teenager who’s still done nothing in the game is very desperate
i do agree we needed more from experienced guys, jacko and McCord Mcgaluchlin being the biggest let downs Followed by McCabe , but not down to ability more down to there own fitness,!
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3 hours ago, Cowden Cowboy said:
So your consistent solution is spend more money than you can afford?
Not at all, my point is back the manager at the start of the season so we don’t have to over pay in January and give the manager his full budget at the start of the season. This trying to strengthen in January didn’t wort I’ve now witnessed 3 years of it
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3 hours ago, charlie king mvp said:
I’ve put money in to all the above as well and it does feel like it has been a total waste. Somebody else said earlier they wouldn’t be putting any more money in and if there isn’t some miraculous improvement under Mark Wilson neither will I until he goes.
If last season had reached its natural conclusion we all know how it would have finished. Yet we decide to back Wilson and give him the opportunity to finish the job. We did the same with Darren Dods and Barry Smith. If you go back further the same thing happened with Jim Weir, he should have been sacked six months before he was as well. The same mistakes over and over again have taken us from a comfortable league one side to the joke outfit we are now.
The problem has beeN the board not backing the manager, the board have killed the club, Dodds got a decent budget the year after the great escape brought in trouten, hill,and love, He got us promoted, then couldn’t keep hill or trouten as budget got reduced,
went into the championship with a weaker squad than the season before,
the board realised we needed to spend money and gave Dodds a budget in January a notoriously hard window .
Why not back him after promotion knowing the gates are going to increase ??
then even after not winning a game for a whole season they keep Dodds on ?????? Didn’t agree with this at all!we start season ok but don’t really have a recognised fit striker and we sack dodds when we’re 5th in the league and bring in Barry smith,
his way of playing is completely different again the board give him a budget in a notoriously hard window, Barry smith brought real quality to the club but we didn’t address the striker shortage which inevitably caused us to get relegated we where completely toothless
now Barry smith is a recognised manager if your going to keep him on you need to back him, the club cut the budget again we keep 2 players. Oneil who did ok and hill our player, players player, and fans player of the year as he had another year on his contract!
there’s a great start, we tried to keep 6-8 of original squad but they move on for better money Because the club don’t back the manager, I think smith knew he wasn’t getting backed so he left
and instead of getting a recognised manager he brings in an inexperienced manager who again has his own ideas , give him a budget to bring in players in again January a notoriously hard window and if it wasn’t for a pandemic we would be out of the professional league
now this season instead of learning there lesson and backing the manager with a half decent budget and having faith in him bringing in the right players they cut budget again and now we have a an extreamly young team No players of any note have signed except Paton who hasn’t set the heather alight , we may have better legs than last year but we look much weaker at the back and unable to manage a game I fear we will struggle again this season a lot more than last year
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2 hours ago, Best Team in Angus said:
Any rumours on what Dougie Hill is doing yet ?
Back to raith
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40 minutes ago, baillieinleeds said:
Cheers.
Captured brilliantly, if big Dougie is still fit and up for a return I’d welcome him with open arms
He has been offered a contract by ourself but is stalling, he's a great defender throws strikers about, easily our best player this year nothing he could have done regarding relegation always left everything on the park, I think we will lose him regardless if he ends up at you lot or not, he's far to good for league 1 never mind league 2,
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4 hours ago, hedgeman83 said:
I would take Doris always quite liked him. As for our squad I would keep
Hill
Paddy
McClean
Burns
May be Jacko
Thompson
And get rid of the rest of themKeep
hill
thomson
miller (looks the part)
robertson
c tapping (if he can stay fit)
spark
burns
toshney (if he can get fit)
scobbie : ultimate steady player nothing flashy just does his job
undecided
jackson :looks done this year still has moments of magic but fewer every week
mcgeever : not had a great run at brechin
oneil : did ok but just ok
orsi : can be unplayable on his day , not enough this year
e smith: bit of a meh I wouldn’t want him starting every week in midfield
punt
mclean : great servent but he’s not got legs to play full back and can’t play cb
shields: injured seen him play 3 times in 2 spells
lynas : 100% player but rash we have better options
sinclare : has the ability , to busy arguing with refs and own players and always injured
kavanah: just a really bad player
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On 23/03/2019 at 09:09, Mon_The_Fife said:
Wow, that is some loss. Almost £400k! Even if Raith did get promoted would they really gather that money back in gate receipts? Highly doubt it.
Out of interest, how much do Raith players get paid per week?How much was the Astro say it was £250k the loss of £150k isn’t that bad, you should make money off the Astro next year
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Just now, Paco said:
‘Most successful years’ is a hell of a stretch but yes, last time we went up we had a few part-timers mixed in with a full-time core.
Wish you could mute phrases on here. Foooooool time.In recent times........fixed for you
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4 minutes ago, L. Brilliant said:
The part time debate is aflame on tbe match thread and arbroath people are here on the rovers thread. Absolute insanity lads.
If we went part time and got promoted - which is the target every season - what next? Go full time with players that don't want to? Or stay part time and flounder?
There is no point in us gearing everything towards promotion in the short term and then being back here 'in crisis' in two years.
Our aim has to be promotion with some kind of momentum and continuity towarda mid-table above.
Yes it's pish just now. Go for a walk or watch a film. Calm down though ffs.Didn’t you have your most successful 7 years when you had a hybrid of part time and full time, I personally think the football on show doesn’t get any better when I watched a lot of full time teams last year, I thought the fitness was better and they wher better organised ( that coulda been down to Dodds) but a club like yours should be able to attract the best part time players and use the money saved to bring in better full time players, it’s a no brainier
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A lot of gloom around airdrie, thought apart from the first 20 mins you completely dominated the game. A welcome 3 points, some heroic defending and good goalkeeping for us but airdrie well worth a draw or all 3 point
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He has a point citydiehard, u got that one wrong
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1 hour ago, hedgeman83 said:
That's Boris away then don't think he was really given a chance would have kept him over Hendry
I thought he was terrible, worse than layne, but we’re all entitled to our opinions
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29 minutes ago, squeezeboxson said:
If that is the case then only time will tell. Given he wasn't found guilty as opposed to the aforementioned Goodwillie - he should have no problem finding a team.
Goodwillie was found innocent also
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Robert Thomsom ?
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We play sexy football now! The fans will come flocking back
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9 minutes ago, citydiehard said:
There is lots of ex managers commentating on the radio on a Saturday afternoon .Personally I think they should try and get Peter Houston.
He would be great for us but would he want to come to brechin?
John mcglynn
mark wilson
anybody is batter than Dods
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Think people are being a bit harsh on shields to be honest , I think he’s been fine, isolated the last 2 games but one of the better players the first 2 games,
we really are a boring team to watch when we don’t need to be we have players who can be exciting
kalvin out wide is a cracking player, delivery could be better but he’s young
sinclair: goal scoring midfielder Dods won’t play him!!!
Tapping can go box to box as can smith
burns likes to get forward from full back as does pabz
Jackson is quality and I think him and shields will link up well
big mcgeever and hill a solid base,
thats in a 4-4-2 but Dods persists in a 3-5-2/ 5-3-2 it’s chronic to watch,
i do blame Dods for last year and I do blame him for how we are playing but I will give him my support the first 5 league games, if he starts bad he’s a goner
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59 minutes ago, CITY1974 said:
Not been a supporter long then .Boris never hid he tried .Did nt have much support much like Isaac last season .
So Isaac was good?
We played two up top, so wasn’t isolated
boris tried??? He ran about that’s it tho! I could get a 60 year old from the Stand to play up top he would try also ,that doesn’t mean he is good, he gave the ball away everytime he got it didn’t like up and didn’t have a shot at goal, are you happy with that, he’s no where good enough for this league, a bit like Isaac last year
Fusco James dale/ moreno. worse
Watt/ Henry. worse
Trouts/Isaac. worse
buzz/ Brennan. worse
burns/ Dyer. worse but still ok
we lost finn also who I’m not a big fan of but he is better than we have
it been a gradual decline since we got promoted. A year of dross and now he’s signed even worse players, it’s laughable how bad he’s been
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1 hour ago, CITY1974 said:
In The Sun today Dods : "We never turned up till after 8pm "
Eh Darren we lost 5 goals after 8pm.
Your signing s are poor I'm sorry . Hill was decent and Boris tried but the rest oh dear .
But it's okay your jobs safe enough as City fans thoughts count for nothing.
I’ll give you hill being good and getting pass marks, which is crazy considering we lost 7 goals but I don’t think he could of done anything about any of them, but Boris is worse than Issac and he was the worst player I’d ever seen in a brechin shirt
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Really enjoyed the game today, we played some neat stuff and dug in when Stirling has there spell, the goal we lose is very soft but the team look more balanced,
shields was quality, Boris scored but didn’t do much else actually he was poor, I thought tapping was really good(in spells) hendry was a bit meh mareno was ok neat and tidy, burns was good, Lynas was ok but gives you nothing going forward , back 3 all good and composed, Euan Smith had a great second half in midfield, the subs made the difference so fair play to Dods, Sinclair and Orsi gave us a lift at the right time,
we were actually good to watch so I look forward to the next game
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21 minutes ago, colin H said:
Finn Graham he was at Brechin last season
Shite
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On 09/07/2018 at 12:44, CITY1974 said:
Finn would be a good signing for Arbroath, busy little attack minded player Dick s kind of person.I genuinely think city are struggling for cash .
Scored 2 goals in 2 years ! Please take him! I’d be happy for him to move on, if he stays ..........meh
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15 hours ago, 1320Lichtie said:
I was hoping for a bite from Overthehedge to be honest
And I’m sure I read on your thread that he’d turned down an offer from you because he was looking for better options.
So the sarcastic ‘take him, please’ wasn’t really warranted as he’d already turned you down.
He’s looking for a better contract (money) which I don’t think he warrents
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1 hour ago, lichtie23 said:
Finn Graham a trialist. Playing well
Take him please
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The Brechin City Thread
in North Pyramid
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Pay the going rate and let the manager worry about selling the club, if we had spent in the summer instead of trying to strengthen in January I believe we wouldn’t be in this mess, this all stems from not backing Dodds in championship season or the season we came down,
the board tried to keep money back because they knew they would sack Dodds if the were out the playoffs, fifth in league and sacked, why not just sack him ? rightly so after not winning a game in a whole season!
Give a new manager a full budget for the season at the start of the season, we can go back to the great escape season, the board took so long to appoint a manager all the best players that may have been available had been snapped up giving Dodds no time to build a team, ridiculous club management
surly you can see this?
we’ve never had problems getting a squad together before