St Patrick’s

4 April, 2009

The Bray Emmets Intermediate footballers suffered their first league defeat at the hands of St Pat's in Wicklow town last Saturday afternoon.

With both defences on top this proved to be a tight and sometimes scrappy affair.  Indeed we had to wait until the fifteen minute for the arrival of the game's first score, courtesy of a superbly struck free for the home side.  Pats went on to add another three points to compete their tally for the half.  The visitor's on the other hand while struggling to get any fluency into their game still managed to be notably tight defensively with full back Sean O'Neill winning most of his battles.  At the other end of the pitch Bray were finding it hard to breakdown the Pat's defence but did notch up two points before the break thanks to the boot of Conor Flannery. 

Bray were second best in the possessions stakes almost the entire second half, yet with 10 minutes to go were still well in touch on the score board thanks to a brace of well taken points from Des Kelly.  With time running out Bray's hopes were momentarily lifted when David Haughton got on the end of a cross field ball to score from an acute angle and he quickly followed that up with another splendid point this time coming in from the left wing.  However, all hopes were dashed when the referee called a halt to what turned out to be a disappointing day for the Bray lads.

Bray Emmets: Barry Lyndsay, Eoin Wogan, Sean O'Neill, Maurice Doyle, Ciarain Doyle, Liam McGraynor, Ross Murphy (Geoff Morrissey), Des Kelly, Rory Breslin, Conor Power,  Conor Flannery, Colm Killeen, Mark Mulvaney (Robbie McNamee),  John Walsh, David Haughton.