Premier

Carlisle Grounds
20 Oct 2017

Played in driving rain as storm Brian visited Wicklow, the game never had a chance of providing good football.

The most dramatic incident of a draining first period was Gary Shaw's diving header to a Simon Madden ball, which failed to put enough on it to take it into the net, but caused the former Bray man to fall heavily, and after a delay he was stretchered off.

The weather eased a little after the break, and the visitors had somewhat the better of the exchanges in the early part of the half, and it was a little against the run of play that Aaron Greene produced a superb strike to open the scoring with just over a quarter of an hour to play.

And it was in the aftermath of that that Trevor Clarke earned the second card of the game, having also been the recipient of an early caution.

Full report to follow

Bray Wanderers: 1 Peter Cherrie; 6 Keith Buckley, 5 Derek Foran, 4 Conor Kenna , 10 Karl Moore; 8 Mark Salmon, 3 John Sullivan; 22 Darragh Noone, 11 Gary McCabe, 23 Jason Marks; 9 Aaron Greene
Subs: 13 Shane Heffernan, 16 Luke Rossiter, 17 Gerald Pender (for McCabe 90), 18 Calvin Rogers, 20 Anthony Flood, 24 Jake Ellis (for Noone 70), 93 Lee Steacy (gk)
Shamrock Rovers: 25 Kevin Horgan; 17 Simon Madden, 6 Roberto Lopes, 3 Luke Byrne , 20 Trevor Clarke +=; 16b David McAllister, 8 Ronan Finn ; 27 Cameron King, 21 Aaron Bolger, 22 James Doona; 14 Gary Shaw
Subs: 1 Tomer Chencinski (gk), 2 Dean Carpenter, 7 Ryan Connolly, 19 Sean Boyd (for Shaw 32 inj) , 23 Cian Collins, 24 Dean Dillon (for McAllister 69), 26 Darren Clarke (for Doona 76)
Referee: Graham Kelly