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  1. Thank you for your thoughts on the matter. For a number of reasons I have closed the BackingBrechinCity Forum and the GoFundMe account. I will close the Twitter account once I am certain that the chap who added £10 to my £100 donation has been refunded by GoFundMe . You now only hav my word for it, but on the BackingBrechinCityForum I did detail my frustration in trying to deal with the club in the weeks after I had donated £100 to the (what was stated to be a ringfenced) Fighting Fund. Brechin City is a great club by any measurement and I wish them all the best. I reget I was not able to make a more telling and longer-lasting contribution.
  2. I can see why people might be suspicious but I am doing this because the Fighting Fund is ringfenced and the club does not provide any other online method of making a donation. If the club launches a similar scheme to Stirling Albions (Target £10,000) I will hppily close the present set-up and donate what has already been collected - including my own £100. It's quite clear doing nothing is not the aswer. Aside from the half-expected scam accusations, BackingBrechinCity has had a very encouraging response to our idea of an initial gofundme target of £500 to support BCFC at this time. If supporters of the gofundme scheme managed to donate £19.06, either in one payment, or in a series of smaller payments, that would be really great.
  3. The restrictions associated with the COVID19 pandemic means that Brechin City Football Club essentially ceased to have any commercial revenue when football was shut down on 13 March 2020. This severe financial set-back was compounded by the necessary decision to cancel/suspend two important fundraisers, the annual Sportsman's Dinner and the popular Glebe Gamble lottery. As always, Brechin City relies on its loyal supporters and the wider Brechin community when financial support is required. In this instance we are asking you to consider contributing to our fundraising drive in the knowledge that this is also a difficult time for many locally-based individuals and organisations. To assist the club, BackingBrechinCity has launched a GoFundMe page - LINK REMOVED. to provide the club's supporters with an easy method of contributing online to our modest fundraising drive, in which we are asking for your help in raising £500 (initially at least), through welcome contributions of any amount. To get the ball rolling we have donated £100 and we will add to that amount when we can. Please visit our GoFundMe page, sign up and help us help Brechin City Football Club. Thank you.
  4. Lots of good points being made in recent posts but I would query whether there is really anything to be gained by going over (yet again) the events of the last two seasons. The question to be considered now is: what can we supporters do to help? Any neutral attending a match at Cliftonhill would find a small support (200 approx) all standing on the one side of their ground - and making some noise! At the Glebe around 400 people are spread thinly on all four sides of the ground - and the result is there's more atmosphere in the adjacent cemetery. Surely a decent percentage of the 400 Brechiners could agree to stand together behind whatever goal Brechin are shooting towards - and give the team some collective encouragement; an organisational task for the Supporters Club perhaps? Yes the team is limited and some do look unfit but according to the manager the players haven't given up. Neither should we. In Brechin's last eight League Two matches, five are at home, including one v the Rovers. We can still do it!!! https://brechincity.freeforums.net/.
  5. It's probably worth reminding some contributors to this thread that, prior to this season, Brechin City had not been in the bottom tier of Scottish football for any of the previous seventeen seasons - a tremendous achievement for one of Scotland's smallest clubs, no matter how these things are measured. The triumph that became a horror show, Brechin's demoralising Championship season, in turn produced last season's demotion from League One and the slide has continued this season. Many of those who have witnessed City's past three seasons now have a air of resignation, and who can blame them? There is no comparison between the current down-beat atmosphere at the Glebe and the ebullient mood inspired by Kevin Harper at Cliftonhill last season. The phrase "on a roll" is only uttered at the Brechin refreshment hut. Unlike their Rovers counterparts last season, "we are staying up, we are staying up" is not being chanted by Glebe Park supporters; understandably they have become disenchanted in more ways than one. However, last season's bottom-of-the-table chasers have become this season's chased and there may be some signs of tension emanating from the Rovers camp. With that in mind, it's a real pity tonight's match at the Glebe against a slightly off-form Annan has been postponed because a home win would have narrowed the gap at the foot of the table to four points and would have set up all sorts of possibilities - and provided a much-needed lift to Brechin spirits. Hey- ho, Cove away is up next. Let's hope the result is an absolute coupon- buster. https://brechincity.freeforums.net
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