United need a result to ease early pressure

HAVING opened their league campaign last weekend against one of the favourites for this year’s Premier Division title, Galway United take to the road this weekend to face last year’s First Division winners.United make the trip south tomorrow to face Cobh Ramblers in St Colman’s Park (kick-off 7.45pm) knowing they must really take something from the game. United showed enough last Friday night against Bohemians to suggest a more comfortable season is ahead of them than that experienced last year, when they sat in the bottom three for two-thirds of the season.A similar struggle this season cannot be tolerated, especially given the fact that the bottom three will be relegated when the season ends in November. To avoid a season-long struggle at the wrong end of the table, it is games like tomorrow night’s that United need to target for points. It is all well and good going to the home of the then league leaders and stunning them to win 2-1, as United did against St Patrick’s Athletic last April, but they took just 17 points from a possible 36 against the four sides that eventually finished below them last season, and a similar return this yearwould spell an uncomfortable flirtation with relegation.In all honesty, it would have been a surprise if United had managed to take something from Bohemians last Friday night, given the quality of the players the Dublin side has brought in, and the fact they had by far the meanest defence in the league last season, conceding just 17goals in 33 games.However, with ......................