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How many first-team players got injured?

How long ago was it Brora beat Hearts? Top Highland league teams are tough for anyone - we took a risk with the line up and it showed. Lesson learned you’d hope but that injury list is mental

Wasn’t pretty tonight and we rode our luck a few times, but great to get a draw and keep a clean sheet with so many defensive players missing (Robertson, Tierney, McKenna, Paterson, McTominay, Cooper, Hanley) With this Nations League thing, we’ve finally found a tournament we are good at!

I've cut the rest, but basically I agree with everything you have said. What I'd throw into the mix, however, would be my view that we'd be a yo-yo side because the divisions are too small in size. 12- and 10-team divisions are just ridiculous. I was thinking about this before the match with Brechin. Yes, we are in the Championship and they are in the Highland League, but if you look at the teams' positions and the size of the divisions, then we are only 27 places above them. That's only 3 more than the size of each of the lower divisions in England, where a draw between two teams from different divisions may be unexpected, but is hardly a great shock. And, harking back to what Mr Bannerman, late of this parish, once said, I find it difficult to believe that there is enough support and spare money in the Highlands to maintain two top-12 clubs less than 14 miles apart. Clearly, it would be different if the top tier had, say, 18 clubs in it. Now that we are past the fight for survival through the pandemic, it is surely time to look again at league reform.

It is a good result. It's not a great performance. We already have those injuries. We were without Sutherland, Walsh, Welsh, MacGregor, Samuels. Carson and Ridgers never got on the park, Dan Mackay, Billy Mckay and Boyd came on as second half substitutes. That's practically a full team not starting. It's little wonder we were a bit disjointed, but there is a bit of depth to the squad if we can get the injured players back on the park, so it's not all doom and gloom. Surely the wins at Raith and Dundee count for something?

TV game against PT.........last one went so well

Bit surprised at this one but our game with Morton in Greenock on 29 October will be televised and is now a 1945 kick off on 28 October.