Crunch Time!

We reach a milestone tomorrow as we play our 11th match in this league campaign and now we will have played each team once. Tomorrow's opponents, Glenavon, are in the same boat as ourselves, inconsistent and they also have a young untried manager guiding them, as we do. Ironically it brings together two of the best strikers to grace our league in the last ten years or so and only one them is still playing, Gary Hamilton, the Glenavon player/manager. Our own Glen 'Spike' Ferguson, has hung up his boots and he is faced with the hard task of trying to stop his great adversary Hamilton and nullify his influence. That Spike has a plan for that we don't doubt, but if it's not working he maybe can change it, Hamilton on the other hand needs to rely on his assistants in the dug-out and hopefully this will give us the edge. We haven't been scoring goals and we've been letting in too many at the other end.

We are a team that's hard to beat, but we don't as yet have that killer instinct to go on and get the three points, we seem content to settle for a share of the spoils. It's fair to say in the last three league games at home, a point is all we deserved, but the matches were there for the winning but we couldn't take that final step and that's all that's missing for our game. If Johnny Taylor is fit, we expect him to play, but just who will partner him is anybody's guess, it could be perm any one from three of Cookie, Vaulsey and Archie, if fit. In midfield in the absence of Jenks its crucial to get the selection right, Gavin, Sparky and Thommo, seems to be about the best option and Cush if fit. Up front we need to choose 2 from Jamie D, Jimmy Mac, Alan D and Ally and the 'Sport team favour Jamie D and Ally but we won't be surprised if Spike picks the other two, he is the man after all.

After his unimpressive outing on Tues night, Elvis needs to get fit and get a few reserve games under his belt for he will be needed in the coming weeks. The same applies to the prodigal son, Jordan Baker, too early to 'kill the fatteth calf' yet, we'll just keep it in the freezer in the meantime. We are to have a Welsh referee for tomorrow afternoon's game and we all know what happened the last time we had a Welsh official, so maybe we should rest Tony Kane, we don't want a repeat of that incident last March, which resulted in a six game ban for the foolhardy Kane. We want everybody to be on the best behaviour, no talking back to the referee, if he makes a stupid mistake, just remain silent and get on with it, the supporters in Blocks A & B, will do enough shouting for you, so come on Sky Blues, let's shag these Mourneviewers!