BROTHERLY LOVE SHELVED
There is no room for brotherly love on Tuesday night as Thistle and Brechin do battle at Glebe Park in the CIS Cup 1st round. Brechin, of course, are managed by Ian Campbell and our version of the Clan Campbell thinks that he will be the one celebrating at the end of the evening:
"I think it will be a very tight game. Although they won a friendly match not so long ago, we are a much changed side and I think we are now a much better side than when we played them. This is a match that must be won on the evening and I hope that it is us doing the celebrating at the final whistle.
I have a couple of injury concerns and both Jimmy and Billy Gibson will miss out. Billy has a slight recurrence of his injury sustained at Buckie while Jimmy has a slight groin strain. Both should be fit for the game at Peterhead but this one has come just a little too soon for them both. I will give Jukka his first start and that is more likely to come at the back rather than as a striker. I know what he is capable of so it wasn't unknown to me what his capabilities were but I do think that the supporters may be a little surprised with the line up on Tuesday.
On Saturday I thought we finished the game very well but we certainly did not start the game well enough and Stirling produced the kind of performance that ew can expect from many teams here this season, they will definintely raise their game and I thought it was an open game. However we were much the better side in the second half but we must start the game a lot better than we did."
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