Four Buckie Thistle players have extended their contracts to keep them at Victoria Park until 2018.
The quartet are midfield pair Jay Cheyne and Kai Ross, wide midfielder Stuart Taylor and attacker Robert Scott.
Manager Graeme Stewart is especially pleased as nine other players – Drew Copeland, Kyle Ross, Ross Salmon, Kevin Fraser, Chris Angus, James Fraser, Sean Carrol, Sean Wood and Craig Dorrat – are already contracted until 2018.
Stewart said: “All of this means we will have a settled squad for the next two years. Along with my assistant manager Lewis MacKinnon and first-team coach Stevie Bruce, we are now 12 months into a three-year plan. We have the next two years to progress and it means that we now don’t have to talk to any of the players until next season.
“We still need to add one or two new faces to the squad next season but I have already told the lads that the young squad we have can only get better.”
Central defender Chris Hegarty, son of former Scotland and Dundee United defender Paul Hegarty, has moved back to his home town of Dundee.
Stewart said: “This was always going to happen. Because he is now back living on Tayside he wasn’t able to come to training sessions without a marathon five-hour return journey.
“Chris will probably sign for a junior club there. He has done well for us and everyone at Victoria Park wishes him well.
“Since we took over we have made sure the players all train together at least once a week and next term we are going to push for two midweek sessions together, perhaps once in Inverurie or Aberdeen, and one in Buckie.”