Elgin City manager Allan Hale

Elgin City manager Allan Hale assesses January transfer market and looks ahead to League 2 match against Spartans.

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00:00We're going to try. We're certainly going to try. It's not easy with the market that

00:04we're operating in and things like that, but we're certainly going to try. We're working

00:08hard behind the scenes to identify players that we can look to bring in. Whether it happens

00:14early in the window, it's probably unlikely. You know how these things can be, but we're

00:19certainly going to try and do a couple of things and hopefully have Aidan and Keean's

00:23loans extended as well to the end of the season, which will be good because you can see that

00:28both of them have been so important to us. I thought Keean, especially in the first half,

00:31was excellent. We're working with a tight squad, but you can see that the players are

00:36sticking together and we're working hard for each other and for the club. As I said, it's

00:40a good three points today and we'll rest up and move on to another tricky game next week.

00:43There's a lot of football to be played. The league's so tight this year. I think from

00:47first to eighth or something, it's so tight and congested. You lose a couple of games

00:51and the gap becomes tighter. You win a couple of games, it opens up a wee bit. There's a

00:55lot of trials and tribulations. I sound boring when I say this because I feel like I say

00:58it all the time, but for us, we've got this game over with and we'll focus on the next

01:03game now. We've got so much admiration for Spartans, their staff, their players, the

01:08way that they play. It's a really difficult team to play against, so it's going to be

01:12a tough game. It's going to be a patched-up side again, but if we can put in the same

01:17level of performance and get the same crowd and the same atmosphere, then hopefully we

01:20can start the new year with a victory.