Closing Victory!

The curtain will come down on yet another ‘fruitless’ season at the Showgrounds tomorrow, when United entertain Newry City, kick-off 3pm. This will be Newry’s first visit under their new manager, Gerry Flynn, who needs no introduction to Sky Blue fans as he spent a couple of seasons at United under former manager Kenny Shiels. Gerry, who later joined United’s fierce rivals (the Coleraine Scum), will be assured of a ‘warm’ reception from the home fans. United need to win and win convincingly if they are to progress up the table, with at least one place within their grasp, no matter how the other games go. With that in mind we expect manager Tommy Wright to field his strongest team, which should be last week’s eleven, minus young keeper Sean O’Neill who should give way to regular custodian Paul Murphy. It will be interesting to see if Fitzy, who has missed several sitters in his last two games retains his place alongside Kevin Kelbie, or whether the United manager goes for Paul Brown instead. Teletext reported today that Kevin Kelbie was intent on staying with the Sky Blues next season, but finance will no doubt have to be found if he is to fly in every week from Scotland. As this is our last game of the season, it would be nice to see United veteran Nigel Boyd get a start, but somehow we doubt it and as it is our last game, we, the Sky Blue Sport team, are not overly optimistic about tomorrow’s outcome either. But surely United will want to end the season on a high, especially after the disappointments they have heaped on us once again this term. So for the last time, until next season at least, ‘Come on Sky Blues, let’s shag those Carlingford, Lougher’s’!