An impressive Elgin City debut for Dayshonne Golding who spoke about victory over Stranraer, winning the penalty that decided the game and his time at parent club Cove Rangers and Banks O’ Dee.
Category
🥇
SportsTranscript
00:00 Right Dishon, really impressive debut for Elgin. Tell me first of all how the move came about?
00:05 I've been playing at Banks for the last month and a half, two months. It was at Cove and it just didn't work out there.
00:13 So I needed to get some minutes in and played against Huntley, a few hands in and Gaffer gave me a call and said,
00:20 'I've got the job at Elgin so calm down'. So I've always wanted to move up the leagues, it didn't work out at Cove.
00:27 Still contracted there but I just want to get my games in and hopefully kick on.
00:32 You've been scoring goals for Banks AD in the Highland League, you've scored about eight, was it?
00:36 Seven in seven starts.
00:38 That's a pretty good record and I think you did some damage to Alan Hale when he was manager at Huntley.
00:44 So that attracted his attention and it's worked out well now that he's Elgin's manager?
00:48 Yeah, but ultimately I just want to get my head down, play games and score goals.
00:53 It was a difficult first half for Elgin and you maybe weren't seeing as much of the ball as you would have liked out there on the right wing.
00:59 It's the first time I've actually met the boys today so playing with them, just trying to work out how we play and what's what.
01:07 Then I think it came into the 30, 35, 10 minutes left, finally started to get into the game and start creating and then the second half was all over.
01:17 Because you had an effort in the first half which the defender cleared out of them.
01:20 I was in but it happens. That's what I'm about, I just want to create chances and score goals.
01:26 In the second half, obviously, they got the penalty equaliser and Russell Dignall scored that goal.
01:32 You were coming more and more into the game, you were still on the wing and then you came to the more central position.
01:37 That led of course to the last minute incident for the penalty.
01:41 That's where I predominantly play, down the middle.
01:43 But either wing, I'm more than happy to get involved. Most important, we got the three points and kick on from there.
01:51 What do you remember about the penalty incident?
01:53 My one or the winning goal?
01:56 The winning goal, yeah. Just literally ball down the line, touched it past the defender and as I'm coming close to the goal, he took my back leg out.
02:04 The rest was history.
02:07 Because you were looking as if the foul didn't come, you might have went on and maybe got the goal yourself.
02:11 Literally, that's what I was planning to do. I didn't even really dive in. It's not really what I'm about.
02:16 I just want to score goals. I was trying to get my shirt off and he just took out my back leg.
02:20 Penalty and the young boy has slowed it away well.
02:24 Happy days and it's a perfect Elgin debut for you?
02:27 Yeah, definitely. Now it's time to kick on and score some more and win some more games.
02:31 What's your early impressions of the Elgin team and the set-up here at Barra Briggs?
02:36 Good bunch of lads, nice set-up. Everyone's welcomed me really well.
02:40 In terms of the team, I think we've got a great team but we just need to kick on and not dwell on the past and move forward and play.
02:47 The Barra Briggs crowd seem to take to you straight away. You seem to be very popular straight from the off.
02:53 Yeah, it's a solid crowd and good turnout as well. Hopefully we can get more and more people down here and win more games.
03:02 When you get back-to-back wins, obviously in a lowly position like Elgin are, the aim is to go higher and keep on winning and build confidence?
03:09 From today, I don't think that's where we should be. I don't really see myself playing down at the bottom.
03:16 I've always wanted to get myself as high as I can on the table and as a team I think we can do that.
03:21 And you're confident you can score goals at Ligue 2 and create goals as well?
03:25 Yeah, 100%. I felt like I wasn't given the opportunity at Ligue 1.
03:28 I played four games and I was playing predominantly down at the right-hand side and created a few chances.
03:33 But I feel like if I can just get my head down and play football, I think you'll see the best of me personally.
03:39 So a first goal at 4 for next week would be very nice, wouldn't it?
03:41 100%. I'll be praying at church on Sunday.