Cushley Blow!

As if United hadn't enough injuries worries on their plate, comes the devastating news that top scorer Cush, is due in hospital later in the week to have a bone scraped on his knee. We don't have a clue what that entails, do they have to open him up, or can it be done with key-hole surgery, which shortens the recovery time. Will Cush be fit to play tomorrow night, we ask? If not, we are having to dip into the reserves, for we reckon we have only have 14 fit men.

Out already are JT, Kyley, Ruddy, Ally, Gavin and maybe Cush, which leaves us with the bare bones. A lot of people are trying to second guess Spike, but we at 'Sport know from painful experience, he is his own man. Whatever players he picks and whatever formation he goes for, we at 'Sport would like to see have at least one ball-winner in midfield. But Spike seems to firmly believe that his centre-midfield pairing of Thommo and Captain Jenks, works.

We sadly think he is far mistaken and we have paid the penalty, losing five games in a row, with teams making inroads to our defence, because we lack defensive midfielders. We are urging him to get at least one ball-winner in his line-up tomorrow night, for our opponents, Dungannon, like to play football in midfield and we need to stop them. Otherwise we can kiss goodbye to our hopes of progressing to a semi-final in the league cup for a second season running.

We know it will be hard game, the Swifts league position, 11th place, has no bearing on the outcome of this game. Swifts manager Darren Murphy, will be emphasising to his team, the recent bad spell that United are going through at the minute and he'll have his team well up for the task in hand. We have to be prepared to fight 'fire' with 'fire', we need every player to be singing off the same hymn sheet and we need to return to our 'never say die' attitude that's been missing in the last month. COSB, you can do it, you owe us big time!