Marc McKenzie helped Albion Rovers win League 2 last season but the midfielder says it is too early to talk up Elgin City’s title credentials
City are one of four teams on nine points, just one point off leaders Annan Athletic and second-placed Berwick Rangers, who Elgin host this afternoon.
The Black and Whites are aiming to maintain their 100% record at Borough Briggs this season but McKenzie is refusing to get carried away and is primarily focused on bouncing back from last weekend’s 2-0 defeat by Montrose.
McKenzie said: “It’s been a great start but it’s a long season.
“Things do not happen at the start of the season, just look at what happened to Arbroath last year. They had a good start but then they fell away.
“If any team has any sort of consistency it can take them far.
“With Albion Rovers last season, we had a very good defensive record – we kept a lot of clean sheets.
“We had some good attacking players as well, so we always knew we were going to score goals.
“At Elgin this season, we started off by keeping clean sheets. That’s what made last weekend so disappointing.”
McKenzie made the move to the Moray outfit in the summer after leaving Rovers, with City becoming his sixth club.
McKenzie still trains with the Coatbridge side, with work commitments preventing the Glasgow-based midfielder training with his City team-mates in Inverness and Elgin.
The 30-year-old says manager Jim Weir was a big factor in the switch, adding: “When I left Albion Rovers, Jim moved sharp after finding out I was available.
“I played against Elgin four times last season. Albion Rovers dominated the first two but in the next two I saw a completely different Elgin team.
“Not in terms of personnel, just the character and the way Jim and Gavin Price had them playing. I was looking to be playing football the way he was looking to be playing.”