Two former Social Club Bluebirds players offered mixed views over the First Division club?s decision to withdraw from the Bermuda Football Association ranks.

However, one thing former Bluebirds forwards Gladstone (Sad) Brown and John Roach seemed to agree upon yesterday was that it was sad to see the team, one of the Island?s most decorated, fall by the wayside.

?That is good to hear. Instead of saying that it?s for football they are saying that they want to start all over,? said Brown, who formed part of Social Club?s victorious team in the 1960s as a left-winger.

?I can remember when we guys started, we were a very strong junior club team and many of the guys came up right through Social Club?s junior ranks. We played both soccer and cricket for the club and then stepped up from there.

?I knew that they were going through a bad patch but they have become famous for going through these patches . . . in the end they always show up and put out a team.?

However, Roach feels the Angle Street club should have held a proper meeting with members before coming to a final conclusion.

?It?s a sad day. It?s sad in a sense that they didn?t have a full complement of actual club members involved,? he said, alluding to Thursday?s special meeting held at the clubhouse.

?I think they could have used more feedback from the total membership and out of that probably something more positive could have come out of it.

?If the decision makers can see down the road that they can get started again then really all they had to do was build upon what was already in place.

?Now you?ve only knocked everything down and are trying to build again from scratch. What incentives are you giving others out there to come and join when you didn?t build on what you had in the first place?

?Again, I think it should have been a total club involvement and I know it?s going to be some moaning going on around the Island for a little while to come.?