Empty Promises!

United play their last home match of this league campaign, which promised so much but in the end delivered so little. But one thing came out this season, we got rid of a manager that blamed everybody but himself and our board backed him to the hilt. We now have a new philosophy, with a young management team and things are beginning to look up and the season's end is looming. It's fair to say, in the last number of years at this stage of the season, we were looking forward to a break away from football, in short we were having to drag ourselves to matches. But this season is different, we are in the midst of a 10 game unbeaten run, we have the league's leading goalscorer and we are playing some nice football. We suppose the experts will argue that in our 10 game unbeaten run, we haven't played any of the top teams, but given our deplorable record over the 'poorer' teams in the league in the last few seasons, we, the 'Sport team, think that opinion doesn't hold water.

Glenavon and their 'new' manager, Gary Hamilton, will no doubt be trying their hardest to dent our unbeaten run, stuck as they are in the relegation play-off mire. This looks to be on paper an open game, both teams have let in 67 goals and while we have scored only 5 more goals, 61 to 56, we've amassed 15 more points. Our management team were happy enough to let Carrick dictate the pace last week, but we at 'Sport think it would be a mistake to allow the Lurgan Blues to have the same space. In their manager, Gary Hamilton, they have one of most gifted footballers in our league, a player who can change the outcome of a game with just one pass. We need to aware of that and we think that Spike and the boys will make a few changes to our starting line-up in order to cut out that threat. If Chris Rodgers is still out, will Vauls be asked to fill in at rightback as he has done in the last two matches. Better to play Cookie Munster and go for three at the back, if Chris isn't fit and if he is, Cookie should come in to replace Archie, to give our defence a solid look.

The rest of the team if fit, more or less picks itself, with the 2 Alan's in midfield, ably backed up by Gavin or if he's not fit, Rory Carson. Ally should get the left wing spot, leaving Elvis and Cutch, the goal machines, up front. In the absence of the suspended Neil Lowry we wonder if Jordan Baker will be occupy a place on the bench. This match will be Cutch's last home game for us as seeks pastures new on the synthetic pitch at Seaview. His record in a Sky Blue shirt is second only to the great 'Jimmy Martin' who scored 44 goals in a season for United, Cutch has scored 32 goals thus far. In a career of two years he has played 88 times and scored 47 goals slightly more than a goal every two games, a phenomenal record in any league. Sky Blue Sport salutes you Gary and though it pains us to say it, we wish you well in your new team the ,hatchet men,, only we feel you'll be playing second-fiddle to Spike and the Sky Blues next season. We also hope you will finish with a couple of goals and a couple of 'susans' for good measure. for the last home game this season, we'll finish with the old rallying call, come on Sky Blues, let's shag those Mourn-viewers!