RateofKnots Posted May 21, 2023 Share Posted May 21, 2023 13 minutes ago, Sweet Pete said: What player and team? They're living off the pie man's pocket though, so not exactly a sustainable one there. Darvel bought Meechan from Forfar for around that sum. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tattie36 Posted May 21, 2023 Share Posted May 21, 2023 Re Hester - It’s a hard pass from me if Elgin are expecting anything like £50k for him. Are they just deliberately pricing him out of the market? as I can’t see any part-time (or many full-time) clubs paying that for anyone. perhaps Cove but I’d be very disappointed if Arbroath paid anything like that for him. A (much) lower fee plus a loan of a player or two, would be more like it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweet Pete Posted May 21, 2023 Share Posted May 21, 2023 9 minutes ago, RateofKnots said: Darvel bought Meechan from Forfar for around that sum. Lot of money they're spending to finish ten points off the top. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1993 Posted May 21, 2023 Share Posted May 21, 2023 6 minutes ago, Tattie36 said: Re Hester - It’s a hard pass from me if Elgin are expecting anything like £50k for him. Are they just deliberately pricing him out of the market? as I can’t see any part-time (or many full-time) clubs paying that for anyone. perhaps Cove but I’d be very disappointed if Arbroath paid anything like that for him. A (much) lower fee plus a loan of a player or two, would be more like it. They have already been offered 30k. The vast majority of teams in the lower divisions are screaming they need a goal scorer every year. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RateofKnots Posted May 21, 2023 Share Posted May 21, 2023 7 minutes ago, 1993 said: They have already been offered 30k. The vast majority of teams in the lower divisions are screaming they need a goal scorer every year. Just my opinion, but there's a huge gap between £30k & £50k. Particularly if there's only one club bidding. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted May 21, 2023 Share Posted May 21, 2023 Off to the bright lights of Montrose. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RateofKnots Posted May 21, 2023 Share Posted May 21, 2023 It's a move up a level. Good luck to him. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Elgin City Posted May 21, 2023 Share Posted May 21, 2023 Be very interesting to see if Montrose have paid 50k for him. Seriously doubt it will be that much 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skyline Drifter Posted May 21, 2023 Share Posted May 21, 2023 11 hours ago, Sweet Pete said: £50k? That's a big chunk of change for a part time team to pay out. Can't remember the last time a p/t team shelled out a lot in a transfer fee in recent years. I remember a few lower league clubs spending 4 figure sums to junior teams for players, but they tended to be 2k and the like. Morton (a full time team) paid 150k for Templeman from Brechin in the early 2000s and Hamilton, also f/t, paid 17.5k (which I believe was a jnr record) for Carrigan when they were first promoted to the then SPL. Anyone remember any sizeable part time transfer fees in relatively recent years? The Templeman fee was nothing like £150k. That was the value of the deal including his wage for 3 years! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1993 Posted May 24, 2023 Share Posted May 24, 2023 No white smoke above BB yet? I thought an announcement was hoped to be made by Monday. Talks not going well? A bit worrying when our rivals are already actively recruiting! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeAreElgin Posted May 24, 2023 Share Posted May 24, 2023 Press were suggesting we'd know by yesterday at the latest. The longer this drags on, the more worrying it becomes 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cityloon Posted May 24, 2023 Share Posted May 24, 2023 No word of the new manager yet but knowing the board there’s maybe someone in it already and they’ve not mentioned here’s hoping that someone is in soon to get more of a team together before the new season 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cityloon Posted May 25, 2023 Share Posted May 25, 2023 Ross draper announced as manager now hopefully starts building more of a team up from now for next season and surely it should be a improvement fingers crossed https://twitter.com/ElginCityFC/status/1661799027082493965?cxt=HHwWmoC8laPa8o8uAAAA 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeAreElgin Posted May 25, 2023 Share Posted May 25, 2023 The news most of us expected, I hope Ross is able to make the most of his contacts and get a good few replacements in to the squad. 3 years though?! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1993 Posted May 25, 2023 Share Posted May 25, 2023 On one hand you could say it’s a typical Elgin appointment, the easy option, the continuity appointment when we really need to break the same old. On the other hand you can look at it as a new manager with new ideas who might take us in a different direction. He seems to be a well liked lad so hopefully he makes a success of it. Needs to get it right quickly though. Fingers crossed. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Elgin City Posted May 25, 2023 Share Posted May 25, 2023 20 minutes ago, 1993 said: On one hand you could say it’s a typical Elgin appointment, the easy option, the continuity appointment when we really need to break the same old. On the other hand you can look at it as a new manager with new ideas who might take us in a different direction. He seems to be a well liked lad so hopefully he makes a success of it. Needs to get it right quickly though. Fingers crossed. Totally agree. On 1st thought it does seem an almost lazy appointment. But he will certainly have a lot of contacts within the game. Cove going full time could be a decent avenue for some players who will remain part time mabye. Interesting few weeks ahead. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Briggsy's Ghost Posted May 25, 2023 Share Posted May 25, 2023 This is what we all expected I think. Why has it taken so long to sort out? Hopefully a deputy/other coaching staff have been finalised as we are all expecting draper to be in the starting 11 next season also. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
afca32 Posted May 25, 2023 Share Posted May 25, 2023 Definitely nervous about next season but happy to get behind Draper. Hopefully he can attract the sort of quality we have lacked the last couple of seasons. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elgin Macca Posted May 26, 2023 Share Posted May 26, 2023 11 hours ago, 1993 said: On one hand you could say it’s a typical Elgin appointment, the easy option, the continuity appointment when we really need to break the same old. On the other hand you can look at it as a new manager with new ideas who might take us in a different direction. He seems to be a well liked lad so hopefully he makes a success of it. Needs to get it right quickly though. Fingers crossed. This was exactly my first thought as well. A typical (lazy,obvious) move from the board in what is going to be a massive season for the club. On the other hand, he does seem like a popular member of the squad, looks like a 'winner' and should have quite a lot of contacts up the leagues. He has a massive job on his hands, thats for sure. Recruiting players better than what's currently there is going to be a big task but much needed! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted May 26, 2023 Share Posted May 26, 2023 All the best to him and let's hope City have a successful season and end up in the "right" play offs! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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