White Light!

Seemingly when we die (well according to people who have had out of body experiences), we will see a white light and we should walk towards that light. What is beyond that light is anybody's guess, no-one's ever gone beyond it and came back to tell the tale, at least we don't think so anyway. Tomorrow night United go to play the Whites under lights (well maybe not all the lights as they're infamous for not putting them all on), but we definitely don't want to be drawn to their lights. Nor do we want another draw as tomorrow night's game is almost a six pointer, we trail the host by 2 points and a win would mean we'd leap frog them, while a defeat would push us towards the bottom six and that is unthinkable. Manager Walker has intimated, once again, that he may tinker with his selection.

We at 'Sport cautioned him last week not to 'tinker' too much with his selection, in the end he only made one change, with Gavin Taggart replacing Sparky. For whatever reason this had a major effect on the team, who having got off to a dream start with Cutch giving them the lead after only 5 mins, just seemed to lose their way and were decidedly lucky to get a point in a game where they should've been comprehensively beaten. Maybe it was an anti-climax after holding the league champions, Linfield, the previous week, but whatever it was, it must be driven from our midst. Lee Colligan, out of favour of late probably did enough to earn a recall in the short time he was on the field on Saturday at the expense of Archie and along with Sparky, if fit, would surely merit a start tomorrow night. Ryan Berry didn't do a lot when he came off the bench at halftime, but he did set up Cutch for the equaliser and you can't ask much more from a midfielder than that.

Murray was more like his old self on Saturday, but we need Hanly in centre midfield to feed the ball to him, which means deciding between Gazza and Taggart for the other central midfield role. Of course Roy might want to go with a 5 man midfield, but we doubt he'd want to break up the blossoming partnership between Cutch and Gibbo up front. Goalkeeper Ryan Brown, who made a major gaffe on Saturday that led to Glenavon's first goal, did redeem himself with some good stops when the visitors threatened to blow us away in the 2nd half. In fact if it hadn't been for him, we might never have been in a position to snatch the afore mentioned undeserved point. As that was his first match back after injury, we believe the manager will give him the nod once more, but name Dwayne on the bench just in case or to keep him on his toes at least.

Denver and Albert, not at their best on Saturday, are still cementing their defensive partnership and Albert as we now know can come up with the goods when the chips are down, if fit we expect they will both be retained. If Sparky returns at rightback and Berry is selected wide right, will that mean no place for Mikey Smith, one of the few players to try his 'eye strings out last week. This would be a hard decision for Walker to make, but that's what he is paid for after all, but we don't envy him the job. We will no doubt come up against one or two former players tomorrow night, Paul Muir and David Cushley are two that spring to mind, also ex-manager Tommy Wright (who of course ran out on us when the going got tough) and this will add a bit of extra spice to the game. It's going to be tough tomorrow night, with old campaigners like Muir and Glenn Ferguson in opposition, but when the gong gets tough, the 'really tough' get going. So come on Sky Blues, let's shag those Lambeggars!