Drumo Derry!

This loose reference to a Camel with one hump, spelt Dromedary, is entirely meant, but as its Christmas season, we thought we would like a humorous headline, therefore Drumo Derry. United need to take a hint from the ship of the desert and prove that they have the endurance to gather points when playing three teams situated in the lower reaches of our league, in our next 3 games. Unfortunately, two of these games will include long journeys, starting with tomorrows trip to Drumahoe, to play 'Stute.

Then on Boxing Day we will face the Coleraine scum at Warden Street before 6 days later making another long trip to face Warrenpoint Town at Milltown and hope they have paid their electricity bill this month. There was some talk on Tuesday night at Ferney, about the 'Point game being played with an evening kick-off, but so far we can't confirm it, we just have to hope that common sense prevails and its a 3 o'clock kick-off, as its stated on our fixture list.

What is our manager's plans tomorrow for this difficult fixture against the 'Stute, we hear you ask and as always, we haven't the foggiest. Does he go with the team that won the league cup semi-final at Ferney or does he have someone else in mind to expose any weaknesses in the 'Stute make-up. We think he'll stick with his starting line-up, unless some of them are injured, we have got to get a settled team, at least for our next three games anyway.

With the news of Cutch signing a short contract to the end of the season, it'll be interesting to see how our manager approaches the transfer window, which starts on January 1. We still need, in our opinion anyway, a no-nonsense stopper, an all-round midfielder, as well as a back-up striker. Some people are calling for a new keeper, but great keepers are as scarce as hens teeth, so in our opinion we could let that wait until the seasons over and then go for one, or two, as the case may be.

We should have a few players coming back off injury, Cush and Jimer fall in to that mode and with a couple of new signings under our belt, 2015 will maybe not be a bad year and we have the league cup final against Chickenville at Windsor Park to look forward to. But as usual we are getting ahead of ourselves, that's all in the future, we have to deal with the present and we have to delve into our reserve strength for a few games more, So come Sky Blues, lets shag those Drumo Derry men!