Rock On!

This is the only advice we feel is appropriate for tomorrow night's game away to Crusaders at Seaview, kick-off 19-45. As for team news, we don't have a baldy, but then what else is new. Rory Carson must be rated as doubtful after coming off at halftime in our last match at Mourneview Park, with suspected concussion. It was disappointing to see such a promising debut brought to an end in such a manner and what was even worse was the attitude of referee Davey Malcolm to the players obvious distress. Surely United officials should complain about the referee's non-caring attitude to our player in this instance, he showed an utterly callous disregard for our player's weelbeing..

But enough about referee's shortcomings, they are after all many and varied, but onto more important things. This will be only United's second game on Seaview's artifical surface and it's a surface they will need to get used to as Chickenville are installing a similar surface on their ground as well. As we seem to have abandoned our play from the back policy at the moment we should do quite well as it'ds only when you attempt to play football that the trouble begins on this type of surface. We assume Roy will continue with his five man midfield in the first half and then bring on Gibbo at halftime.

So far this formula has worked well for us in our last two games and it's not as negative as it appears and it reminds us of the old Alan Fraser system that was such a success for a short time with Barry Patton leading the line. Of course we had some willing midfielders in that team, Peter Murray and Phillip Knell being two of them. We wonder if Mo (McDowell) and Nathan (Hanley), will be soon spoken of in the same breath as these two great players. That team system was broken when we foolishly signed Glenn Hunter and things then went from bad to worse. Hopefully we won't make the same mistake again, but it's early days yet. So come on Sky Blues, let's shag those tame tigers!