BRORA CHIEF REFUSES TO GIVE UP THE FIGHT

BRORA Rangers insist their promotion dreams are not dead as they vowed to continue to fight for justice after the pyramid system play-offs were scrapped. The Highland League champions and Lowland League counterparts Kelty Hearts had been due to face off for the right to take on League Two’s bottom club Brechin City. But the collapse of reconstruction talks means their pathway to professional football has now been blocked off. At the weekend, Brora and Kelty issued a joint statement demanding answers from the SPFL, pointing out that Brechin — who will now not face relegation — have their chairman Ken Ferguson sitting on the SPFL board. In a statement, Brora chairman William Powrie vowed to continue campaigning for the reintroduction of play-offs — or outright promotion to the SPFL. He said: ‘Despite the breakdown of the restructuring talks, we will still be canvassing for the justice that both Kelty Hearts and ourselves deserve. Our hopes of promotion, whilst dented, are not extinguished. ‘This latest setback is just an event in time and as condescending as the Premier clubs’ dismissal of restructuring plans were, I have every confidence that justice will prevail with either automatic uplift into the SPFL or the reinstatement of the prematurely cancelled pyramid play-offs. ‘This mess in which Scottish Football finds itself in will eventually have to be sorted (and it will be) and the collateral damage repaired. ‘The SPFL could offer the first of many conciliatory olive branches by ensuring the play-offs are reinstated and Brechin City put forward to play either ourselves and Kelty Hearts. ‘Regardless of what emerges from the SPFL EGM (tomorrow), this saga has plenty of legs left in it yet. We have a compelling case to make, and I will continue to do so.’