Sky Blue Sport News

Friday, November 03, 2006

Armagh Geddon!

In an attempt to get back to winning ways United manager Tommy Wright told Sky Blue Sport, that he’d be dropping Gary Haveron out of midfield. His place would be taken by Scatesy, who would partner Aiden Watson, while winger Mark Picking would be restored to wide on the right. In the absence of Paul Brown (broken foot), Austen Friel, who scored his first competitive goal for United in the 2-1 defeat at Portadown, would get the nod tomorrow. The United manager said he was loath to make full scale changes in spite of his team’s poor away form, as it was just a case of them not doing the simple things well. He told ‘Sport that he had considered using a sweeper system, but that would mean deploying Darren Murphy behind the defence and he didn’t want to lose the Portadown man’s combative midfield approach. He also said that the sweeper system was in his opinion a negative approach, but if things didn’t improve he may have to consider it. No doubt former United player Shea Campbell will be out to put one over on his old team-mates tomorrow, fresh from his hat-trick at Limavady last Saturday. So it’s vital that the home team are quick out of the blocks tomorrow as Armagh and Shea, will pounce on any hesitancy in the United ranks. The so called hard games are over, now its time to start gathering points, we can’t afford any more slip-ups, its win or bust from now on, so Sky Blues, ‘let’s shag those apple pickers’!