First Division

Markets Field
08 Mar 2024

A point on the road is not to be sneezed at, but this one was hard won.

It was a nightmare opening for Bray, who were looking to build on their victory over Kerry two weeks previously: a Treaty free leading to two quick corners, Willie Armshaw, finding his captain, Mark Walsh, with the second and the latter in turn finding the net.

The visitors might have seen themselves as unlucky at least twice not to level matters before the break, but worse was to come, with Thomas Considine's narrow angle effort following a Stephen Christopher free making its way into Jimmy Corcoran's net at the near post.

Once more, it took until deep into the second period before Bray managed to recover sufficiently to reduce the deficit, and that courtesy of a spot-kick duly put away by Griffin.

Even then, it didn't look particularly likely that the visitors would rescue the tie, but substitute Thomas Morgan netted inside the final ten minutes, and was desperately unlucky not to double his tally in time added, though credit must be given to Corey Chambers for a fine reaction block on that occasion.

Full report to follow

Bray Wanderers: 1 James Corcoran; 5 Cole Omorehiomwan, 4 later 40 Kilian Cantwell (c), 16 Paul Murphy ; 2 Max Murphy, 7 Darren Craven, 11 Callum Thompson, 14 Freddie Turley, 23 Shane Griffin , 31 Kieran Cruise ; 9 Cristian Magerusan
Subs: 3 Evan Osam, 6 Guillermo Almirall (for P Murphy 59), 8 Harry Groome (for Craven 37 inj), 15 Zach Nolan (for Cruise H/T), 17 Thomas Morgan (for Turley 59) , 18 Peter Grogan (for Thompson 59), 20 Alain Kizenga, 25 Stephen McGuinness (gk), 26 Conor Knight
Treaty United: 1 Corey Chambers; 2 Ben O’Riordan, 20 Evan O'Connor, 25 Mark Walsh (c) , 3 Oisin O’Reilly, 17 Scott Kirkland, 11 Stephen Christopher, 7 William Armshaw, 5 Lee Devitt , 10 Thomas Considine , 19 Enda Curran
Subs: 9 Yousef Mahdy (for Curran 67) , 13 Michael Dike (gk), 14 Alec Byrne (for Considine 78) , 16 Adam O’Halloran, 18 David Tarmey (for Kirkland 78), 23 Fionn Doherty (for Armshaw 67), 28 Leon Kirrane, 29 Mark Byrne, 30 Mark Murphy
Referee: Declan Toland