Too Soon!

'It's too soon to know' go the words of the 'Roy Orbison song' (apologies for our use of 'highlight' commas) and just for information purpses, 'Roy Orbison' (there we go again), was a singer of yesteryear. So in our humble opinion (not that Bruce Balmer or Omar would admit to being humble), it's too soon to judge how United have progressed under new manager Tommy Wright. So far we have not been overly impressive in our friendly games (we resisted the temptation to emphasis friendly, but it was tough we can tell you), but at the end of the day, they are only to allow our manager to run his eye over our entire playing staff. We fought out a one all draw with Coagh United on last Friday night (or should we say Friday last, our grammar is not the best we know, Mister Gourly must be turning in his grave), the same Coagh United whom we just managed to dispose of by the score of one nil in the Irish cup and we're sure we don't have to remind Sky Blue supporters how nail-biting that encounter was. It was nice to see new signing Paul McDowell score the equaliser for United (Ballymena), in this game, hopefully this will be the first of many in a Sky Blue jersey for the former Glentoran player. Then on Saturday our reserves with the addition of Boydie and Gary Smyth beat Raceview Rangers one nil with Randal Reid getting the all important goal, during the club's open day. With a trip to junior club Randalstown Sky Blues tomorrow night, followed by a trip to intermediate side Connor on Thursday night, let's hope the Sky Blues 'juggernaut', keeps rolling along!