New Lossiemouth chairman Alan McIntosh insists success for the Coasters would be getting out of the Highland League bottom six.
McIntosh formally took on the role of chairman following the club’s AGM last week, a role he had been fulfilling in all-but title since the departure of Rab Mulheron in 2018.
The club had struggled to find applicants to come forward for the position and McIntosh, whose son Kevan takes over his role as secretary, stressed that little would change at Grant Park.
But the most difficult challenge he faces is helping manager Joe Russell put a competitive team on the park.
McIntosh said: “Success would be getting out of the bottom six. We can’t look too high as we’ve just not got the players to go any higher than that.
“The biggest challenge we’ve got is getting a team on the park that can compete, with the finances we’re tied with. We’ve got a really good youth system, starting from the under-13s to the under-20s, and a couple of years ago we had to raid the under-20s to put a team on the park.
“Being at the bottom of the table, it’s not nice. We have identified a couple of players that will hopefully be along with us next season. The management team are doing great with trying to get them in with the budget they’ve got.”
McIntosh paid tribute to the club committee and volunteers, namely Mikey Ellis who has helped sell nearly 50 new sponsorship boards around the ground.
The club’s strengthening relationship with Elgin City is also viewed as a positive by McIntosh, with Owen Loveland currently on loan from the League 2 club and Kyle Willis joining on a permanent deal last month.
He added: “That relationship is even better now they’ve had a couple of players that have done alright for us. We had David Wilson for a bit and he’s gone back into the team, after playing every week for us.
“They are players that are maybe not ready for the Scottish leagues but will play every week for us.”
