Elgin City manager Allan Hale

Elgin City manager Allan Hale says he is up for the fight after his team's latest William Hill League 2 defeat to Edinburgh City at Borough Briggs.

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00:00on the pitch and look we've got two choices we're in a bad moment i don't think anyone can

00:04um you know say that we're not you know that regardless of how you dissect the nine games

00:09we're nine games without a win um so you know we've just got to own that for what it is um

00:15and take accountability and ownership for that um but you've got two choices um you can feel sorry

00:22for yourself um you can you know moan and complain and point the fingers and do this that and the

00:27next thing the same way that other people will do um and take the coward's way out and say look oh

00:32you know we'll we'll do the easy thing but i don't do easy i never have done uh for my life and you

00:38know i'm up for the fight um and we'll continue to fight um i know the work that goes in here um

00:43i know the detail that we go into um i know the players are uh fully behind what we're doing we've

00:48got a really uh close unity within the within the players and the staff and then you know that won't

00:54change we're going through a difficult moment and when we go through a difficult moment the players

00:58don't play with the fluency and the confidence um so i need to install confidence in the group when

01:03we play at home the supporters need to install confidence in the group they have a part to play

01:07as much as we do they can get behind the team um and i know it can be frustrating to do that when

01:12you're when you're losing games of football but um the noise at the start of the second half

01:16um was exceptional and then you can see the energy it gives the players you can see the confidence

01:21it starts to give the players um so that all of these things will come you know i mean i think um

01:26the the reality is you know has this club failed for 26 year you know my opinion is yes it's never

01:36got up um 26 year it's only ever been in the playoffs four times so who what right did i have to stand

01:42here craig and say we have a divine right to go and win the league we have a divine right to go and get

01:47in the playoffs we don't just expect it to happen we have to go and make it happen and that means we

01:52have to put in good performances consistent performances and winning performances we're

01:56not doing at the moment um but look i'll back those boys to the hill i know what these players

02:01have given to this football club we've put uh we've put energy and spirit and confidence and

02:07togetherness back into this club and other people might decide that enough's enough i'm gonna

02:13i'm gonna give up on it um i'm gonna give up on me i'm gonna give up on the players we're gonna go back

02:17to being negative and critical and you know say that we're not good enough that next time people

02:21can make their own opinions up that's the game that we're in you know football is a game about

02:24opinions my opinion is i've got a lot of belief in this group i've got a lot of trust in this group

02:29i'm up for the fight they're up for the fight and when we win one or two games in a row we're gonna

02:33go on a run and we'll pick up the points we need to pick up to have a good season and if we don't

02:38then there's consequences that are paid as a result of that and we know that in terms of the game that

02:41we're in and that's fine um but one thing i know for sure is that the day that i walk out of this

02:47football club whether it's in four weeks or four years i know that i've done everything in my power

02:51to try and move this club forward and that's all you can ever do and if it's not enough sometimes

02:55it's not enough um but we won't go down without a fight we won't go down without trying to put it

03:00right um and the players feel exactly the same way so um yeah we're up for it who else is up for it

03:06that's a question