Utter Bollocks!

Nelson (7), Jimer (5), Ruddy (7), Kyley (5), Crawford (4), Thommo (5) ( Sub: Hanley 66 mins, 5,), Jenks (5), Ferguson (5), Cush (5) (Sub: Darhen 58 mins, 6,), Tippers (4) (Sub: Millar 5,), Matty (6)

Man of the match: Mike Ruddy

Referee: Ian McNabb (3)

All in all, United manager Spike, made seven changes from his starting line-up and as it turned out, he wasted his time and ours. As expected Dwayne, got the nod in goal in place of 'stay on the goal-line, no matter what', Blaney. I absolve Dwayne, of any blame for the two goals that the scum scored with ease, against our slip-shod defenders. Jimer, who was sent-off against Linfield, returned to the starting line-up, but he needn't have bothered.

He made a hash of a simple header with 2 mins gone and Morrow of the scum ran through our defence like 'syrup of figs' and gave the onrushing Dwayne, no chance to put the scum one-up. It looked like a goal from the training ground, the keeper hoists the ball up-field, the winger times his jump or in Jimer's case unopposed and Morrow runs through unmarked, with the United defence looking on, what were they thinking of?

Spike also promoted Mike Ruddy in place of Steeky and he impressed having a fairly good game, but young Kyle Crawford from the reserves, didn't win a header all day and looked like 'a fish out of water', but in this United defence with no leaders, he's no worse than Jimer and Kyley. Gary Thompson, with the pace of a five year-old, was tried wide on the  right, and Sammy Patterson remarked, he's Fergie's favourite and Fergie is clutching at straws to get a position for him.

On this showing it isn't on the right wing or indeed anywhere I hasten to add, his lack of pace means he gets caught in possession 80% of his time on the pitch. Fergie, also started his son Matthew and he was a little boy lost, but no worse than Thommo, Jenks or the disappointing Cush who was taken off with more than a third of the game still to play. Our Talisman is struggling for form and in truth that's down to our manager, who continues to play him out of position.

Tippers, was another passenger, but he's not a target man and no amount of balls hoisted up to him, will make him a target man, we are going to have to find a different ploy. But the scum, didn't let us build from the back and we haven't the players to do that anyway, it usually ends up with a hoof up the field where Douglas and Ogilby dealt with almost everything. There were occasions when they messed up, but we didn't punish them and let the chance go begging.

The one bright spark in the United line-up could have gotten us a draw, as young Matty missed two gilt-edged chance after the scum had taken an early lead. He missed a glorious chance to get us on level terms but with goal at his mercy he shot weakly at scum keeper Doherty, I thought he could've passed to the unmarked Cush, but he is a striker and he knows just one thing to do in that situation, to go for goal.

United were foiled every-time they started an attack, bu uncompromising foul tackles, by the scum aided and abetted by referee McNabb (an avowed scum fan), not having any yellow cards. But this proved to a fallacy, when young Ferguson, tripped a scum player who went down feigning injury and McNabb, couldn't get the card out quick enough. Two minutes later, Matty, took advantage of a slip by Harkin, but could only shoot directly at Doherty, who saved with his outstretched leg.

This benevolence in front of goal was punished midway through the half, when from a corner the United defence went asleep again and Canning's, bullet like header found the back of the net past the hapless, Dwayne. It should have been three moments after when from another corner, Parkhill was left unmarked and his rising shot sailed harmlessly over the bar, with his marker, Thommo not closing him down. United managed to hold out to halftime without further punishment, but I could see changes would have to be made.

2nd half
United took the field with the same eleven and Cush, was reduced to trying long shots, which didn't trouble the scum keeper, there were so far off target. At last Fergie had seen enough and with 35 mins left, he took off Cush and brought on Darhen. This necessitated a change of formation, when we went to 4.3.3, but it didn't make any difference. After Matty, had missed from an acute angle, Jenks broke down the left and sent over a teasing cross, begging to put away, but Matty & Co, couldn't get a touch.

Just after Hanley had come on for Thommo, the scum won a free-kick, McCaffrey, took the kick before the ref blew his whistle and it flew off our defensive wall and into the net, but the ref rightly booked McCaffrey for taking the kick early and made him take it again and he nearly scored at Dwayne's  near post with the keeper scrambling to get there. Soon after this United won a free-kick about 25 yards from goal, took it short and from Ferguson's cross, Darhen, tapped the ball home.

But the goal was disallowed by a lino's flag, in contrast to the first-half when the same lino, missed four blatant offsides, one of them ridiculous, when the player was at least 10 yards offside, but the flag stayed down. I thought Darhen was onside when the cross was played in, but TV pictures are inconclusive, not at the right angle. But the goal was ruled out and with it United's last chance to get back into the game.

The scum continued to break up play at every opportunity, but the ref refused to book them, for some tasty tackles. Leroy Millar replaced Tippers midway through the half, but he made little or no difference as far as I could see. Doherty in the scum goal continued to waste time and though ref McNabb warned him, he took no action, but added a minute on at the end of the ninety, which was no use to us. I find generally if the ref warns a goalie once and then flourishes the yellow card, he nips it in the bud, but McNabb took no action and the Doherty continued to waste time.

But he managed to book two United players, Hanley and Ruddy near the end, for tackles, that was frustration showing through. In an earlier, incident, when Jenks mad a hash of a simple pass to Thommo, someone admonished him from the crowd and Sammy, said, he gave the fingers to the abuser, I hope Spike saw that and fined him or dropped him for our next game. I thought incidentally that ref should have made, us or the scum, change the shorts that were wearing, both in navy shorts. I'm not making any excuses for bad passes, but its confusing to say the least.

When the ref blew his final whistle some United fans stayed behind to applaud the team off, I didn't, I couldn't get out of there quick enough, it left a bad taste in my mouth. But the majority of the fans stayed behind, to boo the manager, but he's not going to resign and our board in their wisdom, gave him an extended contract and it's going take a lot of money to break that contract, but we have to find it, I think, or relegation at least is all we can hope for in the long run, he hasn't a clue how to fix the dilemma we find ourselves in, he has to go!