Cash promise hopes to stop
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ROCK-bottom Rothes need to spend in order to build a team capable of competing at Highland League level.
That’s the message coming from MacKessack Park at a time when off-the-pitch affairs are improving but results on the park are going from bad to worse.
The Speysiders have lost every league match so far this term, their latest defeats being Saturday’s 3-0 loss to Fort William followed by a 9-0 drubbing against leaders Turriff United on Wednesday, both at home.
Speysiders’ co-manager Willie Duncan revealed how he and fellow boss Paul Lamberton have been promised cash by the club’s new committee, prompted by some tireless fundraising efforts behind the scenes.
Duncan said experienced additions to his team are essential, with the current squad made up of too many loan players and youngsters.
When the club’s financial woes under the previous regime were first revealed prior to the start of the season, Duncan and Lamberton were forced to seek desperate measures just to get players in and fulfil their fixtures for the campaign.
That meant carrying a begging bowl to other clubs to loan youngsters to them, a move which got players on the park but has failed to stem an overwhelming flood of goals against the team.
“We’ve got too many loan players, and that’s no use for a Highland League club,” Duncan said. “We’ve no continuity for our training because so many of our guys are at their clubs during the week and we can’t get them together to work on things.
“That’s not acceptable and I can’t see how we can move on in this position. We’ve been treading water for too long now.
Full story and all the latest Highland League news in Moray in today's Northern Scot.
