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December 2021
Scottish League Two – Matchday 15
Brechin City vs Stirling Albion
Formation; 4-3-1-2 Asymetric (4-4-2 Flat on 65 mins), Mentality; Balanced (Attacking on 30 mins)
Lineup; D.Burgess, J.Macpherson, G.Pascazio, C.Taylor, F.Duffy, G.Fisher, B.Eardley, C.Scullion, R.Ferguson (M.Munro 65), C.Starrs, J.Skelly (R.Currie 56)
Not good enough. We were never really in this game and I’m becoming a little disheartened with our lack of progress on last season!
Feeling a little down in the dumps, I decide to throw my hat in the ring for another job as I feel like I need a new challenge. The Stockport County job is going at the moment, and I send off my CV to see if they’d consider me.
Within a couple of days, Stockport quickly reject me. Not even making the shortlist for a club in the Vanarama National League is quite disappointing and the realism hits home that I really haven’t achieved anything yet! Looks like I’m remaining at Brechin for the foreseeable!
Scottish League Two – Matchday 16
Brechin City vs Cowdenbeath
Formation; 4-4-2 Diamond, Mentality; Attacking
Lineup; D.Burgess, J.Macpherson, G.Pascazio, C.Taylor*, F.Duffy, K.Inglis, M.Munro, L.Callghan, G.Fisher, R.Currie (C.Starrs 62), K.Paton
I’ve noticed that most teams in this league seem to be playing with an AMC, and in most games this player seems to be running a mock with us! So I decided to change things up a little and try a diamond formation, with a DM to man mark this role out of the game (hopefully). It worked a treat here as we smothered their AMC and he wasn’t in the game. However, we won’t get carried away with ourselves here as this still wasn’t the most convincing victory (despite the scoreline) over a club below us in the league who were down to 10 men on 64 mins.
Well that’s lifted my spirits a little bit. The board have finally agreed to fund my first ever coaching badge! Maybe my lack of progress in taking the club forward means they’re not so worried about losing me to another club now?
Scottish League Two – Matchday 17
Stranraer vs Brechin City
Formation; 4-4-2 Diamond, Mentality; Attacking
Lineup; D.Burgess, J.Macpherson, G.Pascazio (S.Bronsky 57), C.Taylor, F.Duffy, K.Inglis (R.Ferguson 57), M.Munro, L.Callghan, G.Fisher, R.Currie*, K.Paton
No changes to a winning side as we line up the same as we did against Cowdenbeath. My pre match team talk was to tell the lads to pick up where they left off, and they did exactly that as we record a comfortable 2-0 over Stranraer. This was as comfortable as you like too, with them never troubling our goal.
Scottish League Two – Matchday 18
Brechin City vs Elgin City
Formation; 4-4-2 Diamond, Mentality; Attacking
Lineup; D.Burgess, J.Macpherson, G.Pascazio, C.Taylor, F.Duffy, K.Inglis, M.Munro*, L.Callghan, G.Fisher (B.Eardley 67), R.Currie, K.Paton (J.Skelly 73)
Our Boxing Day fixture was a big one at home to 7th placed Elgin City, who were definitely underperforming so far this season! And we piled on the misery for them this Xmas by giving them a footballing lesson as we cruised to a 3-0 win. Easy as you like and the result never looked in doubt! My team is finally starting to hit some form this season!
Injury; It wasn’t all good news from the Elgin game though, as we lose Kane Paton to injury for up to 6 weeks.
Three league wins in a row is still not enough to see us enter the top 4, but at the half way stage of the season, we are still very much in touch, and now well clear of bottom side, Stenhousemuir.
Player of the Month
Cameron Taylor (Form; 7.6, 8.8, 7.6, 7.2)
This kid is just immense!
Taylor also took the league award for Player of the Month
Which he dedicated to me!
Whilst I landed my first Manager of the Month accolade for the season.
January looks like a tough month as we will play four of the top five in the league. However, we win a couple of these and it could see us move into the playoff spots for the first time this season!