Play-offs within Elgin City's reach but manager Gavin Price won't look ahead of next match
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ELGIN City may need two points a game to reach the play-offs, but manager Gavin Price is not setting his team any targets.
The Black and Whites are just two points off fourth place in their quest for a first-ever promotion in Scottish league football.
They visit Albion Rovers on Saturday, before a run of three consecutive home games in an effort to try and break into the play-off zone.
City have twice finished in the top four previously, ending up fourth with 57 points in 2011-12 and runners-up to East Fife in 2015-16 with 59 points.
Since the play-offs were introduced in 2005, the least amount of points achieved to get into the top four was by Berwick Rangers, who totalled 49 points in finishing fourth behind Rangers in 2012-13.
The highest total was East Fife with 67 points in 2006-07 and the average amount of points needed to finish fourth over the last 14 seasons is 56.
If that average was the mark this season, Elgin, who are currently fifth with 34 points, would need to gain 22 points over their remaining 11 games to make the play-offs.
Price isn't reading anything into past campaigns and insists his team is only looking at their next match.
"All we are thinking about right now is Albion Rovers and trying to get three points from that game," he said.
"I'm not looking at points targets, I just think about the next game being the important one."
"We have got to concentrate on our own game and forget about other results and what games are coming up in the future."
"That's all we can do, go from game-to-game at the moment."
Elgin will be without strikers Shane Sutherland and Smart Osadolor for their visit to Coatbridge.
