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1 hour ago, Melanius Mullarkey said:
The big pebble is a quartz vein that intruded a white/black 'granite' in the metamorphic basement. What you see is a sliver of the granitic host rock from the vein margin. Rivers ripped up bits of that basement and transported them downstream, rounding it on the way. Result is a rounded pebble in a fine river sand.The giant that is Brechin City (showing a sliver of their former life in the SPFL) taken from it's original home and dropped amongst the wee teams of the HL. Trying to get out, but just falling short. Buckie Thistle's presence is also conspicuous at the top, but they're too well embedded to move with any ease.
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Has any other club in the world been relegated into a league and then been expected/pressured to say "we like it here"? That seems to be the case from a league almost entirely filled with folk who prefer the closed-shop setup. Anything else is (kind of understandably) viewed as being 'too-good for us Billy Big Baws'.
Mackie hadn't helped us here though. Tbh, if I supported anyone else in the HL then I'd be wanting to see his club take a kick in the stones.
Fact of the matter is that we're an outlier with no affiliation to either the HL or LL, at odds with the majority of other Tier 5 clubs. Goodness knows where Brechin go from here tbh, especially when the honeymoon period of having different grounds to go to has reached its end. You could draw parallels with Falkirk of late, but unlike us they've had the clear distinction of being professionals in a semi-pro league which everyone seems to appreciate.
There are only two ways out of this slagging; promotion to the SPFL next season, or staying down for so long we become an established club and then sincerely say "it's quite a good fun league this, sorry that we didn't see at first". At the current rate I suspect it's more likely to be the latter. As a town, there are a lot of parallels between Turriff & Brechin for example, and if it wasn't for our SPFL background then there would be no reason for us to expected to be ahead of them (imho).
The #1 thing I miss from the SPFL is every win having a "f*ckin' yasss" feel to it, as opposed to now where 80% of our games have a relatively empty "we didn't slip up, phew" feel about it. I feel sorry for OF fans who have opted to have the latter with the only potential true joy coming from 4 games of 38. To be clear here, I'm not saying I'd prefer to be a mid-table HL team over the status quo whilst the days of old are still within feasible reach.
TL;DR: I preferred the old way, would like it back, but understand why other HL fans think we're fun to give a kicking because of it.
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On 27/04/2024 at 20:32, ScottishLoon said:
Has anyone heard on the Brechin end of things of this rumour that you want to swap price with McKinnon?
Seems unlikely and probably something that's been said as a joke but we've already heard whispers that McKinnon is leaving us so maybe something in it somehow?
Sure it wasn't Forfar saying "You can have McKinnon for a price"?
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1 hour ago, SouthLanarkshireWhite said:
Always better to have been sunburnt than to have never needed Factor 50!
People with melanoma may disagree.
ETA: I'll probably head across to Borough Briggs to watch this. Stenny will probably go 2-0 up after 10 mins and kill any excitement. Worst case scenario, I get to overhear a bit of Black Lace from Cooper Park. #agadoo
FWIW, it was the sunburn during their last Championship campaign that ultimately sent Brechin down to the HL. I've little doubt they'd still be an SPFL side had they not become the joke club by the end of that season. Basically, we got melanoma'd.
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16 hours ago, Empty It said:
I blame video games.
Au contraire, I thank GTA for getting the whole 'let's go around punching / slicing up randoms in the street, or shooting up a club full of dancers with a chainsaw gun' thing out of the system.
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On 30/04/2024 at 20:19, Lawman33 said:
I know there’s a music festival on
Just looked it up and it seems that Elgin will be rammed with individuals/groups that had their time in the sun but are now desperately scrambling for relevance:
Peter Andre, Blue, DJ Sammy, Cartoons*, D:Ream, Whigfield, Clyde FC, & Gareth Gates to name but a few.
*Aye, this utter rabble:
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Government denies losing track of thousands of likely Rwanda deportees:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68924392
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7 hours ago, Johnny Worm said:
If you don’t want to get promoted why would you devote your resources into your playing squad?
To consistently beat Deveronvale, Fraserburgh and Keith whilst getting home from all games (including away fixtures) for dinner time.
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32 minutes ago, welshbairn said:
A Buckie director told me last year that Peterhead and Cove directors warned him that visiting officials get lousy hospitality in the SPFL compared to the Highland League and he had no interest in promotion.
Buckie don't bother with the post-match hospitality when they lose, so why would it matter to them?
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"Is that Chinese? I also like Chinese..."
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28 minutes ago, nofixedability said:
Fair turnaround that.
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Just now, TheScarf said:
You lot without McGrath and still with Price next season will be some laugh.
Mackie injecting money into the club in an attempt to gain promotion whilst keeping Price would be the definitive example of an oxymoron.
A classic case of 'heart over brains' from somebody who's a successful businessman away from the game.
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That Record article is an absolute cringe of a read.
Will the toys also be thrown out the pram next season if Buckie face a Broch team riddled with injuries/ suspensions in a rearranged fixture, or we have to play Buckie (or any other side) with a weakened squad? "Why did they choose that particular day instead of the week after when it would have been fairer, wah".
Looking closer to home where the league's top goalscorer was demoted to the bench might be a better place to explain how we lost out on GD. A single point against the Broch or Buckie would have avoided that utter embarrassment of an interview.
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10 hours ago, TheScarf said:
So could Strathspey be nominated by the HL to play EK then? Why does it have to be Brechin?
This is where I have to take off my Brechin bonnet and say that I don't think it should be passed down.
As much as "an externally funded billy big baws club without a decent ground shouldn't stop the progression of other ambitious clubs" might seem a sound principle, it would be absolutely mental for every playoff semi-final to be LL winners vs Strathspey (in a hypothetical case that Brechin didn't have bronze, or has been promoted already). Saying "give it to the next team down as long as they're not a certain standard of pi5h" doesn't seem particularly practical.
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1 minute ago, paddymcp said:
owners and directors who are willing to invest in their club and show a bit of ambition
A roundabout way of saying 'buying success', much like Man City showing the ambition to play in the CL rather than settle for mediocrity.
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Those button operated car boots that open at a glacial speed. Just let me close the ba5tard door.
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I've been mostly wearing the same shoes for over a decade now, and they feel brand new. That said, I only bought them last month as I just buy an identical pair every few years once the sole wears through seeing as they've not been discontinued yet. Quickest shoe shopping ever.
ETA: I regularly wear my Scotland strip from 2006 (the 'Gary Caldwell vs France' one) whilst hill walking / caving as it makes a handy light underlayer and stays warm even when wet.
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31 minutes ago, Matty-RCFC said:
Fair play to Buckie. I didn’t have them winning this at the start of the month
On 11/04/2024 at 12:38, Hedgecutter said:Only the emotionally blinkered would put money on anything other than a Buckie championship win imho.
We pip them with a late couple of goals last year, they respond by pipping us on goal difference.
Hate to say it, but told ya.
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Just now, TheScarf said:
Most HL clubs only tweet goals so no tweets usually means no further goals.
Unless you're Buckie. They seem to be very slow at reporting opposition goals, sometimes only acknowledging them via the HT & FT updates.
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10-man Brora equaliser.
Don't even get on the bus Price.
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8 minutes ago, Newbornbairn said:
Dalglish and Souness.
^^^ Crown's legal representatives.
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1 minute ago, KirkieRR said:
C'mon whoever Queen's Park are playing the morra...
Almost had a heart attack there until I clocked that 'RR' refers to Rob Roy rather than Raith Rovers.
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8 minutes ago, Claudia Gentile said:
Nah, it's the Beauly Firth.
7 minutes ago, superwell87 said:Nonsense, it's clearly the Dornoch Firth.
Being east of the strait at Craigton Point, it's actually the (Inner) Moray Firth.
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I was recently informed by my mother that if she died anytime soon* then I'd automatically inherit all of the timeshare guff that's she's been trying to offload for years (including asking me if I'd want it before I told her where to go), and I'd have to continue paying for it whether I wanted to use it or not.
It makes me wonder how many of these sly little ticking timebombs are hidden in various other T&Cs.
*I actually need to ask her if it'll get passed down as part of an estate regardless of timing.
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2023–24 Highland League Chat
in North Pyramid
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Worked out well for Morton when they tried to convince themselves they could compete at a level beyond their means: