Martin Johnston Elgin City Interview

Elgin City’s new general manager wants to see the Borough Briggs club transformed from sleeping giants into an active SPFL force.

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00:00Elkins should be up there, to be perfectly honest.

00:02I mean, the phrase sleeping giant is often used.

00:06I think, as an outsider looking in,

00:09I think the previous regime that were here did a commendable job

00:12in making sure that the club was on an even keel,

00:17and they've got to be applauded for that.

00:20But like every club, whoever's in charge,

00:24it's just their term of office, they're only the custodians,

00:26and they're trying to enhance the club and bring it on to the next level.

00:30And I can see that's what the chairman's trying to do here,

00:33and I'm hoping to be part of that.

00:36I can tell from social media posts there's a vibe about the place,

00:41and we need to make sure that we deliver it at the end of the day.

00:46But if it doesn't happen, then we start again.

00:51But we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.

00:54I think it'd be a lot easier if we just get the job done.

00:59Listen, I'm not coming here to make any great changes.

01:04Nobody's saying anything's broken.

01:07It's just a case of trying to look at what's in place at the moment.

01:12We don't have a lot of new ideas.

01:14They're all old ideas being regurgitated all the time.

01:18We can maybe learn from our peers at a higher level.

01:21There might be one or two things that bigger clubs do and say,

01:23well, we could maybe do something in a summer scale,

01:26a watered-down version or whatever.

01:28And the board are open to new ideas and giving things a try,

01:34as long as it's viable.

01:36Listen, Rome isn't built in a day, that's for sure.

01:40But we've got the platform,

01:41so we just want to build on it

01:43and take it to the next level.