First Division

Carlisle Grounds
29 Apr 2022

Yet another stalemate, with Bray lucky to escape a home loss tonight in the Carlisle Grounds.

Worse might have been expected when a fairly soft penalty was conceded midway through the first half, but second string keeper Michael Kelly got his knee in the way of Beineón O'Brien Whitmarsh's weak spot-kick and punched it away on its return from on high.

The Bray defence got itself in a tangle within a minute, and conceded an equally soft goal.

It took until time added at the end of the first period before Kurtis Byrne managed to lose a defender and fire low into Seán Barron's net.

And despite occasional scares and a couple of decent saves at each end in the second half, that was as good as it got.

Full report to follow

Bray Wanderers: 25 Michael Kelly; 12 Jack Hudson, 31 Enda Douglas, 3 Kevin Knight ; 2 Daniel Blackbyrne, 8 Kurtis Byrne , 17 Karl Manahan, 27 Dean Zambra, 11 Paul Fox; 10 Kieran Waters; 9 Rob Manley
Subs: 1 Stephen McGuinness (gk), 7 Keith Dalton, 15 Eoin Massey, 16 Callum Thompson (for Douglas 38) , 21 Conor Knight, 23 Conor McManus, 24 Darragh Lynch (for Manley 69), 26 Ben Feeney (for Manahan 69), 28 Darragh Levingston (for Byrne 89)
Cobh Ramblers: 1 Sean Barron; 12 Darragh O'Sullivan-Connell, 5 Brendan Frahill, 4 Ben O'Riordan, 19 James McCarthy ; 15 Jack Larkin, 8 Pierce Phillips, 6 Jason Abbott (c), 11 Conor Drinan ; 9 Beineon O'Brien Whitmarsh, 10 Jake Hegarty
Subs: 3 Darryl Walsh (for O'Sullivan-Connell 75), 14 Sean McGrath, 17 Justin Eguaibor, 16 Luke Desmond (for Phillips 64) , 23 Ciaran Griffin, 29 Tiernan O'Brien McAllister, 30 Darragh Burke (gk), 34 James O'Leary, 35 Harlain Mbayo
Referee: Eoghan O’Shea