Different Tactics!

Does United manager Roy Walker, have a plan for our team, that includes tomorrow's match at Mourneview Park against bottom of the table Glenavon and the Irn Bru semi-final, at home to Crusaders on Tuesday night. Not wanting to underestimate tomorrow's opponents, maybe Roy would think of playing something like 4,5,1 formation and try to instil a bit of confidence in our side. But maybe the match will not take place tomorrow, as it's freezing hard as we speak, but better for United if it does. So what does Roy do with his team selection, he can't go on with two fullbacks (2 from 3 actually), we have at present, their shortcomings were cruelly exposed last Saturday.

We had thought he could drop Ally back as an emergency leftback, but with the rumour, unconfirmed, that Eamon Murray has left the club, it does limit our attacking options somewhat. Surely Sparky has to come into the reckoning as he is the best club-man we have, in fact dare we say it, the only man who's playing for the shirt alone. We seem to have been saying for this for weeks now, it's time Jordan Baker and Jenks started showing their worth and we're saying it again. The keeper silenced our criticism last week with a near faultless display and if he had had any defenders worth their salt in front of him, we might've got a different result at Windsor. The 'Sport team feel that he needs to be on his toes tomorrow again, as our best combination at central defence, Chris Rodgers and Cookie Munster, need time to gel.

No doubt Roy will start tinkering with his line-up (please spare us Gavin Taggart), just to prove he's the boss, but he needs to consolidate, not make wholesale changes. If he tried Archie at leftback and picked Sparky at rightback, that would be enough, but trying to second guess him is a hard task, one beyond us. The one bright spark is Cutch (who 'scotched' rumours that he wasn't going to retire at the end of the season), if he could get a couple of chances tomorrow, maybe we can sneak the points and we'll just to have to hope for a miracle against the Crues on Tuesday. Did we say a miracle? It's a well known fact that miracles happen everyday, whereas the 'impossible', takes a little bit longer, come on Sky Blues, let's shag those Mourneviewers!