My Hellgin City supporting mate, who’s usually pretty well informed in matters of a black and white nature, has been advised we’ll be visiting Borough Briggs on Wednesday July 12th to resume hostilities with our formal rivals.

This date’s obviously provisional, assuming Big Brian has the lads back from pre-season training at the Scripture Union boot camp.

I wonder whetherwe will be sending our first team ?

Heard a whisper that we will also play County towards the end of July !! Maybe the lads are fitting in their break to Italy or wherever in between those dates ?

i reallyhope we do have another preseason with c*unty , a good excuse for a journey north, and also give them one last look at rankin

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A trip to Elgin. Bring it on!

games against and elgin that should be fun

This is our real derby!!! Never mind all this county pish!!!

Roll on Elgin

I have just ironed the white Oxford bags, shined up the DM's and got the Leeds Utd scarf out of storage to wrap around ma wrist. Bring the Staigo on. :021: :021: :021:

I went to our friendly v Elgin City in 2004. We won 5-0. Borough Briggs is a decent wee ground, it'd be excellent if we drew them in a cup.

it was on teletext that we r hopin 2 play th tinks on th 22nd o july at our place

Elgin City? Ross County? :012:

Games against our lesser neighbours may be a major coup for them but we've moved on from playing these diddy teams. Our appetites can surely only be whetted by playing English Premiership sides or teams from the major European leagues.

We need a pre-season challenge, not a cricket score.

I think pre season need to be a mix of relatively easy games to get match fitness and a few more challenging games to help the mental preparation. Personally lower league opposition isn't necessarily less challenging, we certainly didn't set the heather alight last season against supposed weaker teams.