Tom McHale

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Elgin City goalkeeper Tom McHale’s inspired performance earned a clean sheet and 2-0 victory over Bonnyrigg Rose Athletic at Borough Briggs

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00:00 It's been a long time coming. I think every single one of us deserved that today.

00:05 Obviously the conditions, tough conditions to play in.

00:08 Didn't expect that rain to come on so hard, but it did and it made for a good game.

00:13 Going in at half-time at 0-0, which is probably a good turn of events,

00:17 and then coming out in the second half and scoring early,

00:20 which has been happening to us quite a lot recently.

00:22 That's a great feeling.

00:23 And then obviously we were able to build on that and go and get the other goal.

00:26 And that was it.

00:28 So, yeah, well earned, like you say.

00:31 Delighted with it, but we've got to obviously move on to next week now and focus on that.

00:35 It's just decision-making.

00:36 You've got to make those decisions early, especially in this sort of condition.

00:40 It's always going to be tough, you know.

00:44 But personally, obviously I'm delighted with my performance today.

00:47 Coming off the back of last week, obviously not being able to play,

00:49 and then coming back into the team today, I'm wanting to try and just, yeah,

00:55 set a standard, you know, and to get a clean sheet like that.

00:59 I think the standard's been set now, so I need to follow through with that week in and week out.

01:02 It sort of took me about four or five days to get over it, but I trained on Thursday,

01:06 felt really good on Thursday and then felt brilliant this morning.

01:09 So it was nice to come here today, sort of ready to go.

01:13 And obviously, like you say, go and get a result like that, in the conditions,

01:16 a clean sheet, two goals at home, fans delighted, players delighted.

01:20 Couldn't wish for more.

01:21 I think obviously with the cancelled games and stuff,

01:23 it sort of feels like few and far between since we actually won games.

01:26 But the cancelled games hasn't really helped, you know what I mean?

01:30 It makes it feel like it's a longer period.

01:31 But at home, I think in the last three, we're two wins and a draw.

01:34 So we need to make this place hard to come.

01:37 It's the same every season.

01:38 Teams don't want to come up here.

01:39 You know, it's a long way to go.

01:42 Conditions like this, it's not fun, but we thrive in that.

01:45 So if we can keep that going for the rest of the season, then who knows where it will take us.

01:48 For sure, that's what, six years now?

01:51 Definitely the lowest point, but we've got to use it to move forward.

01:53 You know, it's one of those that it happens.

01:56 I know it's a freak, but Gene Field on the day deserved it.

02:00 We weren't at it at all.

02:02 And like you say, it's in the past now.

02:04 We can have people talking about it.

02:06 We can talk about it, but we've got to move forward.

02:08 And thankfully today, I know the result didn't go away last week,

02:11 but thankfully today we've came up here, gave the fans something to cheer about.

02:15 And like I say, we can move forward now and hopefully, long may these results continue.

02:20 It's one of those leagues, you know, it's so tight.

02:22 I think people thought with our results, it might have ran away from us,

02:26 but it seems to be sort of super, super tight.

02:29 So it's one of them, you put a few results together and just see where you can go.

02:33 It's one of them, you don't really think about it.

02:34 Do you know what I mean?

02:35 People can talk all they want, but obviously we know we need to come out here and put performances in.

02:40 We don't want to be in that position.

02:42 We won't think about that.

02:43 We'll just think about going up.

02:45 You know, we hit a very low point.

02:46 We know that.

02:47 I think a lot of people know that, but the only way is up from there.

02:50 So if we can keep winning games, then it's going to be an exciting season.

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