Sky Blue Sport News

Friday, February 13, 2015

Get Going!

We have frittered about long enough this season and tomorrow's game against 'Stute signals the time we have got to get going. If we only get a  draw tomorrow or the unthinkable happens and we lose at home to the bottom team, 'Stute, we will leave ourselves a very high mountain to climb. If we finish in the bottom six, as it now seems nailed on, we will have two away games against tomorrow's opponents and our dear friends down the A26, the Coleraine scum and if we are chasing points, these in turn will be really difficult fixtures.

But if by some miracle, we get all three points, it would set us up for two very difficult away fixtures against Chickenville and Dungannon and sandwiched between an extremely difficult Irish cup game at the Welders. So you see it doesn't get any easier, a win tomorrow, much as it would be welcome, doesn't in itself solve all our problems, it just eases them for a bit and then we are right back in the smelly stuff.

What team does Spike select tomorrow, we hear you ask and honestly we haven't the foggiest. We can speculate as to who we'd like him to pick, but in an interview with Stephen Alexander of the BT, he was blaming individual errors for our defeat. Never mind his team selection that invited the visitors, Glentoran, to run rings round and through our sluggish midfield, instead he chose to cite individual errors as the sole cause of our defeat on Tues night.

In truth we cannot argue with his reasoning, it was JT and Tall, who committed the errors that led to the first Glentoran goal, but where was our midfielders, that they couldn't get back to get a tackle in. For the second goal, Jimer's slack pass was intercepted, but again our midfield was found wanting, slack marking and even slacker tackling. There's an old saying, that you cannot make a silk purse out of a sows ear, but why, oh why, does Spike figure that he can make our slow players into a no nonsense midfield.

Its never going to happen Glenn, better to cut your losses and play to their strengths, whatever they might be. By all means get JT, Jimer and Tall, to cut out trying to work the ball out of defence and while you're at it, stop these stupid short free-kicks and short corners. Lets get down to basic defending and no frills football and not try to play something that's beyond our skill factor, its time to wake and smell the coffee and lets shag those Riverside boys, come on Sky Blues!