One Change!

After all the talk about fringe players last week, we played nearly a first team, this week I have been assured we are gong to make at least one change to our starting line-up. Shan, who incidentally was voted the February player of the month by the Seven Towers supporters club, is going to be rested and in his place we are going for reserve keeper, Macauley Cairns, who was allowed to play for Wakehurst in an earlier round, therefore cup-tying himself. If by any chance, Shan gets injured at training or if he picks up an infection, we are left with only one recognised keeper in our squad, goal-keeping coach, big Wes Lamont, so it makes sense this week to be resting Shan.

Trying to second guess Fergie is like trying to pick a winner of the Grand National, nearly impossible. But I'm going to stick my neck out here and hazard a guess. Cairns, as expected will be in goal and I figure Fergie will want to rest, McBride, Taylor, Kane, Jenks and Darboy and I expect that three or four of them will make up the bench. This game is not vitally important for us, but we will want to give a good account of ourselves and if we can secure a victory, it will stand us in good stead for next weeks Irish cup semi-final against Queens. The semi-final against Queens is only 9 days away and try as he might, as Spike does in interviews, thoughts about that game will be uppermost in the minds of our players.

Its only human nature after all and there's no getting away from it, this games could  be the one chance at glory for some of our players. Take Cookie for instance, there's been rumours flying around that he's talking about hanging up his boots at the end of this season, so it definitely does look like the last chance for him. Sparky and Gavin are definitely fringe players and they want to have a good game on Saturday, hoping to nudge the manager when he 's naming the panel for next week. Thommo, who had to come off at Crues, will be wanting a run out to prove his fitness, so you see they are plenty of players trying to catch the manager's eye and long may it continue.

Last week we triumphed over Glenavon, a close game, but we did enough, this Saturday we play the Swifts, who used to be our 'bogey' team, but we've beaten them four times out of four already this season and they will be wanting to set the record straight and consolidate their 8th place in the table. In short they won't make it easy for us and referee Ian McNabb will need to be on his toes from the start, not like that clown last week, who let Glenavon away with murder. There's not much to play for in the league at this juncture, but if results go our way, we could maybe go a long way to tie-up seventh place in the table. But, maybe its all a bluff by Fergie, but I don't think so, but I swallowed it last week. COSB