Rory Glory!

United’s new management staff enter their first derby match with an almost fully fit panel of players, the only player missing being long term absentee Darren Fitzgerald (Fitzy), still recovering from a cruciate ligament injury. This would normally be a somewhat enviable position for a United manager to be in, we can’t remember Big Tam’s predecessor ever having that luxury, but then he invariably brought players back too quickly and that had a knock on effect. But we digress, the former Norn Iron keeper now must start to earn his wages, he somehow must manipulate us into sixth position in the league table over the next two games and as if that wasn’t enough, get us onto a points gathering run like he did at Limavady last season. A good surge up the league table, ‘coupled’ with a decent cup run and getting to the final of the County Antrim Shield, might just made the big man, more than just a gap filler. Any other scenario and the vultures will be circling and Tommy’s days at the ‘Paradise’ will we fear, be numbered. Rory Hamill, linked with a move to Portadown this week, a rumour hotly denied by the United management, needs to stand up and be counted against his former hometown club. Rory has the talent to ‘stand this game on its head’, but he has to really want it. Funny thing is it could be his ‘swan song’, but as the old saying goes, ‘what a way to go’. He would go down in United folklore alongside such greats as, Mal McDonnell, Jimmy Martin, Paul Malone and the man who ‘broke our hearts’ when he signed for the ‘scum’, Dessie ‘chicken’ Loughery. So Rory it’s over to you, let’s go ‘chase the Coleraine (love children) down the Ballycastle Road and the Sky Blue Sports team, go and on and on’!