MANAGEMENT & STAFF
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Allan Hale
MANAGER
Allan was appointed along with his assistant Stefan Laird on December 5, 2023 with the club in a difficult position near the foot of League 2.
They turned things round and the club secured a 6th place finish.
He has managed Huntly (June 2020-Dec 2023) and Keith (Nov 2015-May 2017) in the Highland League.
He was a player with Maud, Fraserburgh and Fraserburgh Utd.
Born in December 1987, Allan holds a UEFA A licence.
MANAGER
Stefan Laird
ASSISTANT MANAGER
ASSISTANT MANAGER
Connor Yeats
FIRST TEAM COACH
Elgin City can confirm the arrival of Connor Yeats to our first team coaching staff.
Connor is a UEFA B Licence holder, who has started his UEFA A Licence. Connor has previously coached at Montrose in the academy and has first team experience with SJFA Midlands League sides Arbroath Victoria as a coach and Forfar United as manager.
FIRST TEAM COACH
Gordon Milne
GOALKEEPING COACH
GOALKEEPING COACH
John Walker
HEAD OF PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS
HEAD OF PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS
Graeme Gilhooly aka Big G
KITMAN, MATCH DAY STADIUM ANNOUNCER & DJ
“Big G” is the man that never stops smiling. He is at his peak at a young 58yrs old. He was born in 1962 in Elgin went to St Sylvesters Primary School then Elgin Academy. He left Elgin in 1985 & worked various places until returned to Elgin in 1999. He currently works part-time at Asda Elgin. His first Elgin game attended fourth round Scottish Cup defeat to Kilmarnock at Borough Briggs 1972. Further on he represented Elgin City by doing Scottish Cup draw at Ibrox after 3-0 loss to Rangers in Scottish Cup February 1977. Graeme started volunteering as Match Day Announcer initially for a couple of matches at start of season 2011/2012 & has been doing it ever since!
KITMAN, STADIUM ANNOUNCER & DJ
Fraser Adams
CLUB PARAMEDIC
He is a Paramedic working as a Clinical Training Officer for the Scottish Ambulance Service. He has been in the service for 9 years in various roles. Before this he completed a degree in Sport and Exercise Science. Since moving back to Moray he has followed Elgin City and had a season ticket for the last couple seasons. He jumped at the opportunity to help out at the club as it combines his love of football and his day job.
CLUB PARAMEDIC
Gordon Methven
PASTOR
Gordon was born in Dundee and brought up in Ford’s Lane just of the Perth Road until the family moved to the Ardler multis in the late 1960’s. On leaving school in 1976, he served an apprenticeship as a mechanical fitter at Carolina Port Power Station in Dundee and after serving his time got a job at Peterhead Power Station which was where my wife and I lived when we got married in 1982. In 1985 he joined Grampian Police, initially working in Aberdeen before transferring to Elgin in 1990. He was astonished on his first Saturday morning by being taken to Boroughbriggs to monitor the away supporters as they boarded their buses to travel to a game. He counted nine busloads which was an amazing support for a Highland League Club. He spent a further 20 years as a police officer in Elgin often visiting Boroughbriggs on match days, supposedly to check supporters were behaving but it was really to watch Elgin City and get his half time pie! He retired from the police in 2010. Away from the police he was also a community councillor in Elgin for several years and helped organise the Moray Community Awards. He is a deacon of Oasis Church in Elgin, part of Church of the Nations (COTN), where he received his spiritual training. He is currently employed as the Coordinator for Elgin Street Pastors and has great joy in seeing City supporters celebrating a victory on Saturday nights in the town centre. In 2019 he was delighted to be asked to become the club Chaplain and really enjoys helping the lads out at training and supporting them at home games.
PASTOR
Duff Bruce
CLUB DOCTOR
CLUB DOCTOR
Andrew Jones
HEAD PHYSIO
Andy graduated RGU in 2009 then returned to Lossie and opened up a private practice.
Besides running his clinic within the Elgin City FC grounds he also looks after Scotland’s Lacrosse team as well as covering our Home Match’s and seeing to our injured players.
HEAD PHYSIO
Catherine Graham
PHYSIO
Catherine graduated from Glasgow Caledonian University in 2017 with a degree in Physiotherapy and started her career doing Rotations at Dr Gray’s Hospital in Elgin. She later took the opportunity to move to St John Hospital in Livingston to Specialise in MSK.
She enjoys travelling and spends a great deal of spare time doing outdoor activities including running, cycling, paddle boarding & hill walking.
Catherine covers most of our away games being based in the central belt.
PHYSIO
Bob Crombie
CLUB PHOTOGRAPHER
Bob was born in Turner Memorial Hospital Keith on the 30th July 1956. He was a baker/confectioner to trade serving his time with Walkers in the old bakery. For the last 30 years he has been a hands on supervisor working in one of their factories producing the rich fruit cakes. He is retiring this July after almost 48 years serving with the company.
Bob was also a retained fireman in Aberlour for over 10 years!
All our Matchday Photos are taken by Bob.
CLUB PHOTOGRAPHER
Bonnie McDonald
BAR MANAGER
A Devonian born and bred, with her name you would never know her roots are not originally Scottish. Her background is children’s nursing but after starting a family she decided to take a break.
Her husband’s job brought her family up to Moray in 2014. In 2016 she joined the school football & completed SFA qualifications that would allow her to coach.
She then met Craigh Stewart (our community football manager) at a Summer Football Camp which started her journey with community football. She now coaches girls football and holiday camps.
She joined the bar staff team in 2017 becoming the bar manager in 2018.
BAR MANAGER
Mike Whelan
PROGRAMME EDITOR
Born and raised in Kent, Mike followed South London’s premier team, Charlton Athletic, until moving north. He wandered into Borough Briggs during a 6-1 defeat by Albion Rovers and decided that City was a team in need of his support.
He became editor of the Match day Programme ‘Black & White’ in 2011.
Mike has contributed to a variety of club programmes, fanzines and football histories.
PROGRAMME EDITOR
The Green's
MATCHDAY FUNDRAISERS – TESCO & POST MATCH RAFFLE
Norman Green (left) – Norman worked for 30 years in distilling with The Glenlivet Distillers prior to the company being taken over by Chivas Brothers.
Before retiring he worked for Network Rail here in Elgin.
When he was a Director of Elgin City his responsibilities were on the Commercial side of the club.
After he resigned from the board he still remained involved in the fundraising side of the Club.
Sportsman Dinner – He met the late George Duffus at a company event and it was he who advised about holding a Sportsman’s Dinner, our speakers over the years were legends of the game, this along with some brilliant comedians adding to the mix made many memorable evenings and much needed funds at that time.
Ian Green (right) – Ian left Elgin Academy in 1959 and joined AAS (Army Apprentices’ School) in Harrogate for three years. He was then in the Royal Corps of Signals for nine years, based in Europe, the Middle East, Malaya and Malaysia (both!), Singapore and Borneo. He then joined British Rail (based in Inverness) for twenty years as Senior Engineering Technician in the S and T (SIgnals and Telegraph) department before working for Highland Council as Council Officer in the Town House for twelve years and retiring in 2010. He now spends Home games assisting his brother with the match day fundraising as mentioned above.
They would like to mention a big thank you to the following distillers who provide prizes for our Matchday post match raffle:
Allan McConnachie and Stewart Buchanan of Benriach Distillery and Keith Brian and Karen Cameron of Craigellachie Distillery. You will see their perimeter boards behind each goal, we raise a lot of funds by raffling their delightful and tasty products after every match.
The Tesco & post match raffles have been ring fenced and used for team travel now for a decade now. It proves whether it is £1 or £10 spent on these fundraisers it helps the club enormously. Thanks once again to everyone who supports these raffles.
MATCHDAY FUNDRAISERS
John Meichan
MATCHDAY FUNDRAISER – 50/50 DRAW
John Meichan was educated at the famous Elgin Academy leaving school to take up an apprenticeship with our youth sponsor Robertson. He worked at Robertson for the best part of 35 years.
John became a city fan from a really young age and used to carry around the chalk board in the grounds that showed the half time raffle numbers. He trained with the 60’s legends such as George Gilbert & Douglas Grant.
John became Secretary in 1993 & was part of the committee that secured City’s step up to the Professional Leagues in 2000.
John’s main involvement with the Club is currently with fundraising including the 50/50, Match day Raffle & Monthly Tesco Draw.
If you see John on a Matchday, remember to buy your Raffles!
MATCHDAY FUNDRAISER 50/50 DRAW
Bob Weir
CLUB HISTORIAN
b. Elgin, 16 November 1965. Bob was brought up on the family farm at Lower Mains, Findrassie in the heart of the Laich o’ Moray to the north of Elgin. He first got interested in football with Scotland’s qualification for the 1974 World Cup in West Germany. He has followed Elgin City since 1975, and has kept records of the club’s results, teams and goalscorers from 1977, about the same time as he started keeping a scrapbook of all the stories relating to the Borough Briggs club. Over many years he has compiled records of almost ever match played by Elgin City since the formation of the present club in 1893. He has contributed to a number of books and booklets on Elgin City, and other club’s, the most well known being Elgin City’s Highland League Triumphs & Tragedy, published in 2003. A painter & Decorator by trade, he is currently employed by Rothes firm, Hendersons.
All the information on our History Page is provided by Bob.
CLUB HISTORIAN
Lee Stewart
WOMENS TEAM INTERIM MANAGER
Former youth academy coach who stepped up this season to become assistant to Mo Morrison. A local podcaster and welfare coach.
WOMENS INTERIM MANAGER
It ends all square here at Forthbank as we remain in 6th with 2 games to go
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Goals from Ryan Sargent and Kane Hester have Elgin going in 2-1 up at HT after Mark Russell had earlier given Stirling the lead from 28 yards
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ON THE STROKE OF HT!!
Kane controls the ball, takes it round the defender and then the goalie and pokes it home!
Stirling 1-2 Elgin, 45 mins
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IT’S THE EQUALISER!!!
He’s back in the team and back in the goals as he controls a fired in pass to him and curls it round the goalie
Stirling 1-1 Elgin, 23 mins
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⚫️⚪️ TEAM NEWS ⚫️⚪️
Two changes from Saturday’s match v Annan Athletic
➡️ Jack Murray and Ryan Sargent come into the starting XI
⬅️ Ally Spalding and Rocco Hickey-Fugaccia drop to the bench
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PROUDLY SPONSORED BY:
ELGIN CITY FOOTBALL CLUB
Borough Briggs
Borough Briggs Road
Elgin, Moray
IV30 1AP
Email: vicky.duguid@elgincityfc.co.uk
Telephone: 01343 551114
Company number SC207126
