Goalkeepers

There are plenty starting positions in the XI where it's not yet clear who John Coughlin will favour from the squad but I don't think Goalkeeper is one of them. Gary O'Connor is in his third spell at the club having originally joined on loan from Hearts in 1993. Now 33, he's played over 250 games for the club and is surely one of the best keepers the club has ever had. Reasonably reliable, and with a solid defence last season, Gary kept a remarkable 14 clean sheets on the way to a championship medal last season.

Chris Flockhart is our second choice keeper. He joined Berwick in summer 2006 from the Heriot-Watt university side where he'd played for them in the East of Scotland League. He looked out of his depth when thrown in at the deep-end last August, making his début in the Challenge Cup game at Hamilton. However later in the year, when called up to deputise again for O'Connor, he produced some fine saves and kept three consecutive clean sheets in December 2006.



Alex Connon is part of the management team. He's the club's goalkeeping coach but is also registered as a player which has seen him in the sixteen at times when either O'Connor or Flockhart is unavailable. Yet to play for Berwick in a first team game, probably much to his relief!

So assuming Gary stays fit and, given that keepers seem to be able to play on longer before retiring, then I can't see any reason why O'Connor won't be in goal for the opening game against Cowdenbeath in August.