No parting with part-time as Arbroath seek Premiership place - watch play-off decider on BBC

No parting with part-time as Arbroath seek Premiership placeImage source, SNSImage caption, Arbroath lost 1-0 to Dunfermline Athletic at East End Park on Tuesday ByJonathan SutherlandBBC Sport ScotlandPublished2 minutes agoArbroath v Dunfermline Athletic (agg 0-1)Friday, 8 May from 19:15Watch on iPlayerArbroath would continue to field part-time players if they were to gain promotion to the Scottish Premiership, believes co-manager David Gold.The Gayfield side continue their quest for top-flight football on Friday as they host Dunfermline Athletic, trailing 1-0 from the first leg of the play-off quarter-final.Gold says an evolution to a 'hybrid' model, with some additional full-time and loan players, would make most sense for the Angus club if they were to complete back-to-back promotions.The winner of the tie will face Partick Thistle in the semi-final next week, before the final against whichever side finishes second bottom of the Premiership."Financially, the club would be in the best place it has ever been I would imagine," Gold told BBC Scotland when asked about what promotion would mean to Arbroath."Continue to do what you're doing, try to attract better players maybe, reward the players who have got you to where you have got and just take it from there. I think that would be the best way to go about it."To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.This video can not be playedFigure caption, Watch the goal which gives Dunfermline first-leg advantageArbroath consist of a squad of part-time players, bolstered by a small number of full-time players on loan from other clubs."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."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 a...