Marsh Pride!

With the news that United manager Tommy Wright has signed former Glasgow Rangers apprentice Kevin Kelby, we at ‘Sport are wondering if this is a ‘masterstroke’ by the United manager, or a ‘panic buy’, coming as it does just two days from the transfer deadline. Once again we are told that Kelby is not an ‘out and out’ striker, but a midfielder or striker, in other words yet another player like Sweeney and Hamill. On the plus side is the fact that big Tommy turned an average player, Kevin Ramsey (us United fans know how average he was), into one of the most deadly strikers in the league, during his spell at Limavady United, so let’s hope he can do the same with Kevin Kelby. We at ‘Sport would urge United fans to give young Kevin time to adjust to the pace of Irish league football and time to find his ‘niche’ in the United set-up. We realise we need an instant fix, but it’s more important to have our team ‘gelling’ at the start of the league, yes getting to the knock out stages of the C.I.S. cup would be nice, but getting off to a good start in the league is of tantamount importance. So after getting all that off our chest what are our chances of progressing in the C.I.S. cup? Mathematically we still have a chance, but we need at least a draw tomorrow night when we visit the Marshes to take on Newry City and then if we only manage a draw, maximum points away to Glenavon and at home to Portadown. No it is not impossible but it will take everybody playing at the top of their game, no lapses in defence like there have been in all three games so far this season. But a defeat tomorrow night would be fatal, unless Glenavon take something from their game with Portadown. There are really too many ‘variables’ and all we can do is our very best and if we do that and still miss out, then so be it. Do the ‘Sky Blue crew’ have a song with Kevin Kelby’s name in it already? If not, hopefully they soon will have, we suppose they could always go with ‘he’s blue, he’s white, he’s f—king dynamite’ or would some other ex-Sky Blue striker take offence, in the end, who cares?