Lewis Hyde
Elgin City summer signing Lewis Hyde speaks about his move from Inverness Caley Thistle
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00:00The lads have been brilliant, the gaffer's brilliant, you know everything, it just feels
00:04like home, just stepping in, good standard, you know, changing lifestyle a bit but I mean
00:09the tempo, everything, it's just the same really.
00:12Yeah, it's a really good squad, a really good depth, everyone's competing for their place,
00:16no one's guaranteed a shirt and the gaffer always says that, everyone's got to put in
00:21100% into training and into the games and if you don't perform then the squad's good
00:25enough knowing that you've got people that can fill in and challenge you for your shirt.
00:29Obviously I did a bench for my shirt tonight but that's how it happens, it's all about
00:33the attitude coming back from it.
00:34Just my circumstantiality kind of decided, you know what, I was still playing league
00:41football, you know, play as high as I can, I didn't want to move away or do any trials
00:45or anything like that but from speaking to the gaffer from day one, I mean there's no
00:50other project that really was quite as lucrative as this, like the squad they're building,
00:56the feel they're getting especially, I mean you're always looking at how your neighbours
01:00are getting on, at Cali, you know, I was always seeing Elgin, Lee Keith was here last season,
01:05he was buzzing about it, you know, just how he was reporting it to me and performances
01:11and results were going their way, you know, as soon as the gaffer spoke to me, I knew
01:16straight away I wanted to come in here, get in, I knew a couple of the boys already and
01:20I mean I expected us to, like from the League Cup, probably perform a bit better than we
01:25did and we know that but then we reacted really well when it matters, going into the league
01:28the first two games, I mean the first three wins, you can't really ask for much more,
01:33performances still, things starting out but we looked together, like we looked like a
01:37really good team going forward, that's really exciting.
01:39I came into pre-season and like just went from one injury to the next, I went from an
01:43ankle to a hamstring and then just coming back, probably just the week before the league
01:48started, really getting into kind of match fitness but the gaffer's easing me in well,
01:53managing me just like tonight and yeah, definitely getting there week on week, it allows me to
01:57do stuff in my own time but also the intensity of the training and everything like that,
02:01I mean it showed from one week to the next, I lasted 60 then I went to 80 so week on week,
02:06if I just keep up doing that, I should be hitting good numbers, travelling distance
02:10for the boys and doing my part.
02:12You've got to keep winning, momentum's high, you just keep pushing but it is what it is,
02:17we'll reset, we'll recoup and we'll look forward to Stranraer away.