Arbroath consist of a squad of part-time players, bolstered by a small number of full-time players on loan from other clubs.<\/p>\n
“You have got Tam O’Brien, who is the captain, and who has been my team-mate for nine years,” said Gold, who shares managerial duties with Colin Hamilton.<\/p>\n
“He’s got a really good job and he’s now 34. Is he going to go full-time? No. Does he deserve a shot at the Premiership when he’s done everything to try and get us there? Aye, I would say.<\/p>\n
“You couldn’t just go, ‘you’re not fitting this model anymore \u2013 see you later’. I don’t think that would be right and I think it would be against what we are as a club. We are very much together.”<\/p>\n
After topping League 1, Arbroath have exceeded expectations this season by finishing third in the Championship.<\/p>\n
Four years ago, Gold and Hamilton were players under Dick Campbell when Arbroath duelled it out with Kilmarnock for the second-tier title.<\/p>\n
Another potential fairytale is on the cards, but Gold believes his players have yet to get the credit they deserve.<\/p>\n
“We have gone totally under the radar,” said Gold. “No-one has said a word about us. That year [2021-22] it was all over the news.<\/p>\n
“I don’t know what the difference is. The magnitude of that achievement is huge.<\/p>\n
“That would take us massive strides forward as a club.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arbroath consist of a squad of part-time players, bolstered by a small number of full-time players on loan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-417833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}