Brechin City’s first pre-season friendly ended in defeat to SPL side Motherwell.
But it proved a useful workout for the Glebe Park outfit and there were enough positives to help new boss Jim Weir on his way towards determining his strongest line-up.
He included seven new signings plus trialist Davie White in his squad and while City lost three well-taken goals they themselves had several good chances.
A series of corners early in the first half put City under pressure but it took a spectacular overhead kick from Steven Jennings to go anywhere near breaching the defence.
City applied their own pressure and Darren Randolph was at full stretch to hold on to a Neil Janczyk cross out of the air.
Brechin should have opened the scoring after 36 minutes, but Craig Malloy blasted over from a Rory McAllister cross.
Well’s slicker passing looked likely to unlock the City defence and three minutes into the second half a bit of indecision allowed John Sutton to angle his shot home.
In the 56th minute they scored a second and 12 minutes later Keith Lasley fired home to make it three.
City pulled one back in 76 minutes when Jamie Redman side-footed home from a Callum Booth cross.
“We had one or two decent efforts but the important thing was that it was a good workout,” said Weir.