Elgin City’s season started with a 5-0 defeat to Hibernian – but Brian Cameron remains hugely optimistic about the campaign ahead. In their opening Group C encounter in the Premier Sports League Cup the Black and Whites performed well in the first half against their Premiership opponents. But Hibs pulled away in the second period and left Borough Briggs with a convincing victory.
Six of Elgin’s seven summer signings – , Kyle Girvan, Ryan Sargent, Dayshonne Golding, Olly McDonald and Dylan Gavin – made their competitive debuts. A hamstring injury meant City’s other new recruit Lewis Hyde was out. This is Cameron’s 17th season with his hometown club and the midfielder hopes they can use the League Cup to prepare themselves for a possible promotion push The 32-year-old said: “We started poorly but then after the opening goal we were quite comfortable for half an hour and grew into the game.
“We’re really disappointed with the goals we lost – a lot of them were crosses into the box we should be defending. “It was a good fitness exercise for us, we’re not going to be coming up against that level of opposition every week so we need to take the positives from it. “We want to try to compete in the group, but ultimately we’re all aware that the big games start in three weeks when we play East Fife in the league.
“The gaffer has brought in some really good quality this summer and the new boys have gelled really well. “I think with the squad we’ve got.
