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Jacko has been a superb player for us over the years but think he had declined a fair bit in the last couple of seasons. Certainly looked a shadow of himself in the games towards the end of last season. Good luck to him.

Maybe only played 4 games but didn’t see anything that would have made me want him to stay at Brechin. Games passed him by, extremely lazy and shirks out of challenges. Be interesting to see how he gets on.

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Agree with that, think Inglis is a really tidy player.

Was only going by the number of substitute appearances over the last couple of years, which would be suggestive he wouldn’t be able to demand such a healthy part time wage. I’d expect someone like Jackson to be on that kind of figure. Not doubting at all he would be a good addition - we need fit guys who are willing to work hard. Last season we had too many players with decent pedigrees but just didn’t seem to give a flying f**k. Thankfully all of them are now gone and we’ve offered deals to those who had some heart whenever they played.

I’m assuming we’ll start paying as soon as per-season starts, just like any other season. I’m not expecting us to have most of our squad signed up yet like a number of teams have already but some progress on that front would be good, even a few new contracts signed to give us a base to build on.

My point is that these players have been offered new contracts weeks ago - surely at least a few of these have signed by now? If they have only agreed and haven’t signed along the dotted line yet...why not? What is Mark and Stevie doing at the moment?

Why would we pay £250 p/w to someone who, as someone else has mentioned, has proven nothing to be more than a bit-part player in league 1. We offered contract extensions to a handful of players weeks and weeks ago, how it is even possible that we’ve not heard whether they have signed or gone elsewhere yet?! Yes there is still plenty of time until the season starts but we are so far behind other teams yet again. That’s been several seasons now with different managers at the helm - where does the problem lie?

Brechin getting it tight on social media because we’ve been spared of relegation and think there is a conspiracy theory because Ken Ferguson is on the SPFL committee. Quite surprisingly, I’m also seeing a number of pundits who are supposed to know a lot about our game very confused as to why we haven’t been tarred with the same brush as Partick and Stranraer (and likely Hearts). Are these people aware that there is a playoff system at the bottom of league 2 and not automatic relegation?

Supporters Club have started a gofundme account with every penny going towards the club during these difficult times. https://www.gofundme.com/f/brechin-city-supporters-club

I stopped reading once I got to here tbh.

What improvements? Other than those two matches recently in which we kept clean sheets (offering very little threat at the other end as a result) we’ve still been leaking soft goals left right and centre. Mark has come in at a difficult time and his hands are a little tied but 3 wins in 24 matches is a dire record in any case. He’s been backed well in January but despite what you say I don’t think we are much stronger. On paper, yes, but these players are either unfit or underperforming. There are far too many players that are overweight which is affecting us greatly, why can’t the coaching staff see this!

He has been pish. A decent finish for his first goal today doesn’t change that. He’s offered very little. I should add that every signing made by Wilson the last couple of months have offered very little, with the possible exception of Petkov.

More than half the last ten years out the bottom Division?! This is the first time City have been in this league for 20 years. Any reference to us being deadwood is nonsensical.

Do you not think it’s a reasonable ask? Pretty sure any other Angus club would be of the same opinion.

Why are people still rising to citydiehard? He’s an absolute spanner who clearly isn’t a genuine supporter.

If you were an Annan fan making a 7 hour round trip would you still have that view?

Alex Petkov, thoughts guys? According to a local paper he's signing for Brechin.

We more or less got rid of our entire squad during the summer and it’s not exactly served us well.

Andy Jackson, Jimmy Scott and Paddy O’Neil are contracted for next season. All 3 I’m sure are from the central belt so I’d be surprised if they were still here next season should we be in the Highland League. Vast majority of our players are from central belt and wouldn’t expect any to stick around. Think Reekie, Inglis and Pongo are most local in Dundee.

Difference being that he will have been on good money to do this.

We wouldn’t cease to exist if we were in the highland league, but without major investment we would struggle to challenge at the right end of the table. We’d have to move our training further north than Stirling and as a result we would no longer be able to attract players from the central belt. We’d then be competing for players around Dundee/Aberdeen area with other highland league teams who have more money. It was painful viewing yesterday. It was a must win game yet we found ourselves 4-1 down after an hour. Absolutely pathetic. I’ve said in previous weeks that there are far too many players that are carrying too much weight and are nowhere near fit enough..why is this not being addressed by the Manager! I look at the bench yesterday and we should have started the vast majority of them! Again I said before that McMinn should have been dropped and he cost us the first goal yesterday by fumbling a routine ball. Why the f**k have we signed Laverty and McCabe to sit on the bench?! Why the f**k is McCord, our most talented player not starting in our biggest game of the season? Don’t give me pish about selection for the conditions... Over and out

Was reported when Sinclair was recalled that we’ve now got a loan to use. Hopefully on a defender...

Absolutely no doubt we need to win this otherwise it’s curtains in terms of avoiding 10th . I’ll be there as almost a home game for me.

You kidding? Jacko has always been the ‘chunky’ type but he has definitely come back bigger than what he left. He was literally jiggling whenever he was running. As I said, I understand he’s been out injured but for me he needs to lose at least a stone. Jacko is a class player so we need him in peak condition if we are to get out of this mess.