Elgin City assistant manager Stefan Laird

Elgin City assistant manager Stefan Laird speaks about progress at the club in the last year as they look to finish 2024 top of League 2.

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00:00with them and the reality is that we were told it was going to be a career killer to come into

00:04this club a year ago and people have been quick to jump on us in the last two games when we've

00:10lost in the 97th minute and then we were atrocious on Saturday here which hasn't happened often.

00:16The reality is now that if they win on Saturday they'll be top of the league at Christmas and if

00:20you've asked anybody in this town that the team will be top of the league at Christmas a year

00:24from now they would all laugh at you. So that's a credit to every single one of those boys in there

00:29and they should be extremely proud of themselves. The strikers, Dylan in particular, were unplayable

00:33at times tonight but I don't think people, you know, we spoke about it, but I don't think people

00:38realise the effort that those boys in that dressing room are putting in just now. I don't

00:43think they realise how tired they are, how many injured players there are. You know, Lyle Booth

00:47tonight should have been on from the start, you know, asked to come off at half time,

00:53played 92 minutes, barely put a foot wrong, couldn't run for the last half an hour as you

00:58can see. Kyle Girvan has got ankle tendonitis, he's played 90 minutes the last three games,

01:04he's making 80 yard runs from centre back to try and get on the end of crosses. Dylan couldn't run

01:09at the end, Keane's playing 90 minutes, 90 minutes, 90 minutes, 90 minutes, 90 minutes.

01:15There's most of the players in the stand, that was just sheer determination to not lose and to win

01:22and they should be as proud of themselves as we are of them. It was absolutely tremendous.

01:28you