Brechin

Bonnyrigg will have it because they've been down.

Brechin.

We played Brechin down in South Challenge.

You're not telling me any of these types of teams, and by the way, I could mention more, but I'm just using that as an example.

You're not telling me they couldn't improve the, the second division.

I've played against Brora in Senior Scottish.

I've seen their setup, I've seen the, the standard they've got.

Obviously I'm up to Brechin.

That was one I got wrong.

Brechin beat Buckie.

Penalties, aye.

Aye.

I'd have seen a draw.

Um, I couldn't be bothered to go and find it.

Strath have got, um, what is it? [sniffs] Do, do, do, do, do, Brechin.

Brechin away, aye.

And while I was there, I changed my plan, which is probably the worst thing to do.

So I was entered for the 100 at Brechin, and I thought, "Oh, he's been so easy, and it's been going so well.

Let's just do the 105, get it over and done with early, and then, you know, it's not that pressure sitting on us all year." So off we flew home from France on the Friday, I want to say, or the Saturday, went up and rode Junior, and then off he went to Brechin on the Sunday on Daniel's lorry.

Um, and I was also flying to Denmark on the Sunday evening, so I was literally home from the weekend to go to Brechin and back.

And I can see you looking at me and realizing you're like, "What were you thinking?" [laughs]

I'm like, yeah, you know how they say set yourself up to succeed.

Um, and then off I came, I fell off.

We had the, like a step up to roll top, uh, and I jumped it and Junior didn't.

when I came back, we'd already set up Be Inspired- Mm-hmm ... and for Move Back In cohort, and we, um...

I was playing for Br- signed for Brechin.

I was going to go into the juniors and play.

There was some mad money floating about then.

Yeah.

So Brechin, but Brechin had [laughs] Brechin had made me an offer.

I was like, "Nah, may as well stay at the best level I can." Right.

Rangers were in the league at that point, at League One, in League One.

Could have.

You know, it felt like that after what was going on in the Brechin.

I

have a question.

Anyway, two years passed, went self-employed and I thought, "I need to find a car." So I went all over the place.

I was in Dunfermline and I ended up in Brechin.

Mm-hmm.

And, uh, when I was in Brechin, there's a garage up there, because one of the guys was a client of mine, um, when I was at Bradford & Bingley.

So he said, "Come in and have a little look." So I went up and there was a car, can't remember what it w- I think it was Renault Laguna or something at the time.

And, and I looked at it and I went, "Yeah, it looks pretty, pretty nice." Um, and we, we, we struck up a deal and I went, "What are you doing through here?" And he goes, "Oh, we're building an extension." So there was this big bit of polythene right out, lying across the door.

Yeah.

Bucky gone out to Brechin.

Yeah.

Nairn gone out to Gretna.

And the great players use it later years, like Laurie, who have come across, the threes have come across, like the boy Eremenko.

I didn't see him much because it wasn't about, I was involved in football with Brechin probably at that time.

but Eremenko they say was a class footballer and yous would appreciate him but Ian Durant was in my time was up there with the best no doubt about it and the shame for Ian was obviously he didn't fulfil his potential but due to his injury he probably had to change his game and he changed his game that he became that playmaker type instead of the running getting on the end of things into the box but he was a fantastic player A great trainer, Ian Durant.

He loved to carry on, but he was a serious boy as well.

Because I've already, like you mentioned there, Pierre, you take out somebody, a linchpin, and it will fall apart.

It definitely happened at Strathmore where we had Jackie Knight, who I'm sure lots of the sports fans all know fondly, ex-Scotland wicketkeeper, played at Perth, Aberdeenshire, Strathmore, Brechin as well.

Great guy, infectious personality, and he built our junior side from nothing up to Scottish Cup 13s, 15s kind of winners.

And that kind of held us together because we had a group or a nucleus.