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Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Quick Update!

The news coming out of Ballymena United shareholders AGM is as follows:

(1) Our manager Spike has signed a contract extension which will keep in the United hot-seat until end of season16/17, in other words, another two years.

(2) Spike has signed another two players in Willie Faulkner from Ards and Nathan Hanley from Crues.

(3) Spike had an agreement with Rodney Brown for him to sign as an amateur, therefore incurring no sell on fee, but he snubbed us and signed for the scum.

(4) He has been talking to at least four strikers, one of them (we call him player A), is working weekends and nights, so therefore he has no time for football at this present time, but that could change. Player B was looking likely to sign but he got a better offer elsewhere. Player C lives in Killyleagh and doesn't want to travel beyond Belfast for training and player D is prepared to take a substantial wage-cut to play for us, but he still demanding the sort of money that would pay 2 or 3 of our other players and we don't need a groundsman anyway.

(5) We are on a sound financial footing, gate receipts have almost doubled, but we need to get into semi-finals and finals to keep that steady income coming, no Boxing day bonanza this season.

(6) On the downside we were disappointed that our manager thinks he has enough cover for central defence, with only three recognised central defenders on the books and two of them are slightly injury-prone to say the least, but we have no qualifications, we are just onlookers.

We will endeavour to keep fans up to date as the summer progresses, COSB