Ross Draper

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Elgin City stopper Ross Draper played 90 minutes in the Premier Sports Cup against his former club Caley Thistle and saw the 2-0 defeat as a stepping stone towards Elgin being ready for a strong league start in August.

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00:00Saturday was a bit of a reality check. You're playing a good team and we didn't play well on

00:08the day. We let ourselves down a little bit. I know Wraith were good, very good, but we didn't

00:13do ourselves any justice. So coming in today was obviously again against a good side. It was about

00:20improving as a whole, both in and out of possession. I thought we were better than we were

00:24on Saturday, much better actually, especially second half. So small steps, we want to do well

00:31in the Cup, we want to win games obviously, but it's all about the first league game of the season.

00:34So we're building up that. Today was an improvement on Saturday and then when we play East Goldbride

00:38again on Saturday, we'll be looking for an improvement then. Again, it's small margins

00:43when you play against good teams. It is small margins, you look at their first goal comes from

00:49nothing really. Billy sniffs it out and puts it in the back of the net and you go,

00:51kind of how we hit the post and we've done okay and then you find yourself and then all of a sudden,

00:58two months later, you're 2-0 down and that's the difference. I think we've got to learn to

01:02kind of take our chances and keep teams at bay as well. So like I said, we've still got a lot to

01:06learn. I thought we were good tonight, but about an improvement from Saturday and a progression going

01:12forward. You're pleased that you created more chances tonight as well. There were a few chances in the

01:16match, one that you set up yourself. You might have even been tempted to have a go yourself,

01:20was it? Never. Maybe we got a little bit carried away, but it was the right thing to set Boothie.

01:28Like I said, small margins where we've conceded a lot of possession tonight, we're 2-0 down and then

01:34we find ourselves with two one-on-ones late on and all of a sudden you take those chances and

01:38you're back in the game and it's still trying to get there a little bit. I've dipped in and out of

01:44pre-season and tonight with back-to-back games in terms of 90 minutes was good and then obviously

01:49I had the pre-season game against for Martin, it was another 90 minutes. Building up and making sure

01:55that I'm OK for the first game. It's about managing your body at my age, I guess.

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