Home Comforts!

Surely it must be time for United to be enjoying some home comforts, instead of dreading playing at home, but really looking forward to playing in front of their home crowd. Admittedly the home fans are a little quiet at the moment, but we believe it's because they've had so many disappointments, they are afraid to be too vociferous, just in case they put the boys under too much pressure. On chances alone on Tuesday past we should've won the game, but we failed miserably in front of goal, while at the other end we 'messed' up allowing them to score a soft goal. With that in mind maybe it's time we began playing at home as if it was an away cup-tie, you know what we mean, make sure we don't concede and try to hit on the break.

We realise this won't be very entertaining, but needs must, we just cannot go on leaking goals at home against teams we are capable of beating. Our record against tomorrow's opponents Newry City, is none too hot, though we did manage to avoid defeat against them back in February and a similar result tomorrow though not ideal, would be better than a defeat. Tomorrow is our fourth home game this season and already we've lost two and drawn one, another defeat is unthinkable, but not inevitable. Maybe a 5,4,1 formation tomorrow would be a good way to go about things, a strong defence and a quick breaking attack, this could be our recipe for success at home. Roy of course may have other ideas, but then so had Marty Tabb and look what happened to him!

On our day we are capable of beating anybody, but our defence is suspect and late collapses have been all too prevalent and need to be stopped. Our attack without Gibbo was pretty punchless on Tuesday night, so why wasn't Mackers (James McLaughlin), at least on the bench? How long is Roy going to keep him under wraps? We needed him on Tuesday, but he didn't even make the panel. If he's not getting his chance he'll soon become disillusioned, drop back into junior football and maybe come back to haunt us in a couple of seasons when somebody can manage him and make the best use of his unquestioned ability in front of goals. By heck it's hard to enthusiastic, but we must try, so come on Sky Blues, lets shag those Marshies!