Plain Bread!

After the excitement of the Irish cup and the furore that surrounded it, of the Alan Davidson registration, Spike and his team are back to plain bread. The Irish cup semi-final against Linfield is three weeks away and United must get back to their basic points gathering against Lisburn Distillery at the Showgrounds tomorrow. As Lisburn are 8 points behind us it's another 'six pointer' due to the fact a win would take us 11 points ahead of them, whereas a defeat would narrow the gap to only 5 and we don't want that. We think that Jenks must serve a one game ban, though the Carling Premiership web site doesn't state that, but we don't want to get dragged over the coals two weeks running.

In the absence of Jenks, Gavin could slot in very nicely although Tony Kane did his prospects no harm with a cultured second-half performance last Saturday. Ally, who Spike singled out in his meeting with the fans, 'as the most talented member of the team', is still not back to his best, but he has three games to get it right. Conor Downey is another player hoping to catch the manager eye no doubt with an Irish cup semi-final coming up in 3 weeks time. Archie falls into the same boat and now we have real competition for places, which we didn't have under Roy Walker. We at 'Sport are just little bit concerned at our lack of goalkeeper cover, if Dwayne picks up an injury then we are going to be left with an inexperienced keeper.

But maybe Spike and the two baldies have an ace up the sleeve, which they haven't told us about, but we doubt that. Two former Sky Blues in the Lisburn ranks, David Cushley and Aaron Callaghan need no introduction to United fans and they'll be out to embarrass us on our home patch. But we feel that United should have more fire-power in their team although striker Ligget will need to be watched. Rory Carson, who was less than impressive against Newry City last week, could be the star of the show, if he turns on the style. We are in a good position, we are nearly mathematically safe, but we can't afford any slip-ups, so come Sky Blues, let's shag those city dwellers!