Last Gasp!

When I heard the team Roy Walker had selected to do the job I knew there be shortcomings, but wasn't prepared for this inept performance I witnessed today. The Coleraine scum beat us 1-0 and it will be a goal that'll haunt our keeper Wayne Drummond, for he made a mess of a fairly routine catch, but truth be told we should've been beat by far more. With Cookie Munster, serving a ban, Roy decided to change his two central defenders, playing Sparky and Watson and leaving Chris Rodgers on the bench. Gavin Taggart got a rare start in midfield but the scum dominated this area of the field so much no United man emerged with credit.

Ally Teggart, so long a star performer in this United side, had a stinker today and we had no Eamon Murray to gee him up a bit. Jordan Baker who was supposed to be good in the air, won only three of the thirty or so balls that ended up in his direction, while ace marksman Cutch was a virtual passenger. As early as the 5th minute we could have been a goal down, as the scum took a corner from the left, Oglivy had a free header, not a United man within 10 yards of him, but luckily it cleared the crossbar. United just couldn't clear their lines and it seemed only a matter of time when the scum would take the lead. After one goalmouth scramble Drummond pulled off a save, but there was no outlet and The ball came back again. We did have one chance when a through ball glanced off a Coleraine head, but referee Dunlop gave a goal-kick, instead of a corner. Despite a few more scares and a disallowed goal, we got to halftime still on level terms and I hoped Roy would change things around.

2nd Half
We took the field with the same personnel on board, though we made a match of it for the first ten minutes of the half and Ally missed a sitter when played in by Cutch, hitting his shot straight at the keeper. After a fruitless run up the field and a feeble shot by Downey, Roy took him off and brought Aaron Boyd on. Baker then missed a chance with a free header, putting it over the bar, but thereafter it was the home team who dominated proceedings. The scum brought on Leon Knight, but the United defence held firm, although there was a few scares and keeper Drummond did well to thwart Knight diving at the strikers feet.United had a shout for a penalty when Baker appeared to have his legs whipped from under him, but referee Dunlop was unimpressed.

With five minutes to go Knight appeared to head-butt Watson and although the referee gave the foul, he didn't take any action against the scum player. With three minutes to go we had a catalogue of errors, first Archie was beat out on the right, then when the ball was crossed from the left, Watson failed to make contact and it looked like a keepers ball, but whether he was hampered his own defender, he fumbled it and Knight rammed it into the net. Maybe on reflection the keeper should've punched the ball, but there was no coming back from a killer blow like that. We had one feeble attempt to mount an attack, but Cutch couldn't find the unmarked Baker. The scum killed the match during the three minutes of added time and we had no answer, we were a beaten team!

Drummond (6), Woods (6), Archie (6), Sparky (5), Watson (5), Gavin (5)(Sub: Rory 5,), Jenks (6), Downey (5)(Sub: Boyd 5,), Ally (5), Baker (5), Cutch (5)

Man of the match: Curtis Woods