Elgin City manager Allan Hale says he will run the rule over trial players during Borough Briggs club’s pre-season warm-up matches against Lossiemouth, Fraserburgh and Formartine United
Pre-season friendlies have been lined up, and trial players could come in to join two protracted new signings.
That’s the picture at Elgin City, who learned their Premier Sports Cup opponents today to follow three warm-up matches against Highland League opponents.
Manager Allan Hale has signed defender Connall Ewan from Ross County on a pre-contract and is set to reveal a second, transfer deal later this week.
But the City boss revealed he will also give the opportunity for out-of-contract players to win a Borough Briggs deal.
The Black and Whites return to pre-season training in just over two weeks time with an opening session on June 14.
Two weeks later they play Lossiemouth in a testimonial match for twin brothers Liam and Ross Archibald.
On July 1, Elgin play host to Hale’s former club Fraserburgh, then head to Formartine United on July 5.
The Premier Sports Cup kicks off a week after that, with City taking on St Johnstone, Caley Thistle, Raith Rovers and East Kilbride in a tough group to prepare for the League 2 kick off at the start of August.
“We'll make sure that we get the appropriate minutes and conditioning into the players,” said Hale.
He had opened the door for trial players to show off their skills in training and in the three warm-up games.
“I think there will be a couple,” he said. “We're kind of working on that at the moment just based on the positions that we're looking to strengthen.
“There's always players looking for clubs and I think for us it's important that we don't jump into things unnecessarily.
“But it’s also important that we get players up and we get a look at them. If we can do that over the course of a couple of weeks then that goes a long way to help what we're looking to do.
““For us it makes sense and there will definitely be a couple - we don’t know how many at this stage, maybe a few.”