Second Instalment!

We have had the starter (first eleven games) and now we start the next course. This next course could be called the main course and the next phase after that, could be the dessert. Then and only then, we'll find out if its going to be champagne or cold tea, hopefully the champagne. But there's a long way to go until we get to that stage. Tomorrow we face Dungannon Swifts, who used to have a 'Indian sign' over us, but not not anymore.

That doesn't mean its going to be easy for us, it never is against Darren Murphy's team and we expect a hard fought game, but we also expect to come away with all three points. Fergie will probably make a a few changes to the team who so narrowly lost to Linfield last Saturday. Tony, who came on as sub on Saturday, is expected to start and we won't be surprised to find out if Thommo is dropped in favour of Gavin or Sparky, who both start suspensions next Monday. Or knowing Spike, he may decide to allow the Thommo/Jenks partnership to continue, in centre midfield.

We at 'Sport, think this will be foolhardy in the extreme, as the Swifts, despite their lowly position in the league table, know how to knock about a bit. We had nobody at the Ballyclare game, but all reports and twitter, seemed to suggest that the Comrades carved our defence open at will and with a bit more composure in front of goal, could have stolen the game. we can't afford a repeat performance against the Swifts or we will be facing our third home league draw or worse still, a defeat.

The experts claim that football is a game of inches and that point was never better illustrated, than at Windsor Park last Saturday, when a Neal Gawley effort came off a post, with the home defence in tatters. On the other hand we had to rely on a linesman flag, for signalling that JT's header had crossed the goal-line early in the 2nd half. Hopefully we don't need such eagle-eyes officials tomorrow, so come on Sky Blues, lets shag those Chicken farmers!