Baker heads United further into trouble

Date Published: 23-Jun-2009

THE League of Ireland takes a mid-season break for the next two weeks, and the break comes at the perfect time for Galway United whose slide down the table continued at the weekend after defeat at the hands of Shamrock Rovers in Tallaght Stadium on Saturday night.United have won just once in their last six games, and are now just four points off the sole relegation spot, their excellent start to the season buffering them from looking up at everyone else. They played well on Saturday night, but this isn’t figure skating, there are no points awarded for performance, and one point from their last five games has seen United slide from mid-table comfort to a position of real concern.By the time United play again – at home to another club in freefall, Cork City, on Friday week – the transfer window will have opened, but given the finances at the club, the only windows of interest to United will be of the double-glazing kind as poor crowds at Terryland this season means there is no cash to splash during July.A hamstring injury picked up in the win over Finn Harps in the FAI Cup the previous weekend ruled Derek O’Brien out of United’s first trip to the new Tallaght Stadium, but Jason Molloy’s second half cameo in that game saw him start alongside Vinny Faherty in a 4-4-2 formation on Saturday night.When the...