Our Shield!

No this is not reference to Ballymena being based in Mid-Antrim, more of a hint to our manager to pick a strong team to do battle with Glebe Rangers tomorrow night. He should have learnt a valuable lesson, when he picked fringe players against Ballymoney United in the league cup a couple of seasons ago and very nearly paid the penalty, pardon our accidental pun.

We expect him to ring a few changes tomorrow night, Blaney in for Dwayne, could be one and he definitely has to get someone in for the suspended Ruddy, either Steeky or Hanley. Owen Kane and Faulkner, both looked wooden on Saturday and they could be rested with Magennis and Tony promoted or maybe the Barber and keep Tony in reserve for extra time, ha,ha, just our little joke.

But if we don't give a professional performance, we could have penalties to decide or perish the thought, end up with egg on our faces and out of the Shield. We have already struggled against a first division side, namely Moyola, this season and we don't want a repeat. A slip shod performance like last Saturday will not do, we need to be up for this one.

If we tidy up our possession and don't try to do all with one pass, we should have too much for the First Division side. But on the other hand if we approach it like we have a god given right to win, we are going to struggle big time and we must be prepared for a shock. So come on Sky Blues, let's be up for this game and shag those Glebe sheep and get into the next round of our Shield (joke)!