Athlone Town 0 - 1 Cobh Ramblers

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Last season's First Divison top scorer Willie Bruton notched up his first of this season as Cobh Ramblers beat Athlone Town 1-0 at St Mel's Park.

In a tightly contested game, Cobh had the slightly better chances and almost had a dream start when Jonathan Coker burst through after just 35 seconds only for Gerard O'Brien to make a last ditch tackle.

But three minutes into the second half, they did take the lead when Bruton raced onto a Robert Brosnan long ball before clinically finishing past Athlone goalkeeper David Moran.

Teams:
Athlone Town: Moran, O'Brien, Kelly, Shine, Jackson, Rush, Gavin, Collins, Mullan, McCann, Molloy.
Subs: Devine for Mullan (77 mins), Sherlick for Kelly (89 mins).

Cobh Ramblers: Slattery, Yelverton, White, Brosnan, Murphy, Buckley, Cummings, Conlon Coker, Bruton, Tynan.
Subs: MCGregor for Conlon (80 mins), O'Rielly for Coker (90 mins).

Referee: P Sutton (Clare).

This was not a bad performance against one of the best teams in the division. It was a lot better than I expected.

We did have a shaky start but with young deputants throughout the whole team this was to be expected. I thought we settled well and were well worth a draw at least. Wev need though to take the game by the scruf of the neck, slow it down and take control.

A couple of things, Shane Jackson was the wrong man to be man marking Bruton who had a quicker turn of foot as he showed with his goal although Moran knows he should have been off his line to collect. I thought Bruton overdone his acting but fooled a poor referee (who seemed obsessed with giving yellow cards) into giving wrong decisions.
Also Jimmy, Harney is a better option than Rush in midfield.
Mullan tried hard and caused problems, he looks promising. I liked McCann and Gavin played a great game. The two full backs played as full backs should do and were quite impressive.
Molloy, who I rate very highly can do better and needs to think about this.

So, well done Jimmy and the lads; all in all it was a promising performance, we need though to see improvements from match to match, and with Kelly, the Frawleys, Carberry etc yet to come back it might be a better season than anticipated.

we had a very weakend team out

conlon cummins and murphy are all 17 years old!how did they get on?

yelve is a left mid but was playing at right back.

slattery......ill say no more<hes rubbish>

where was moorse?? hes magic!
he would of caused great problems in mid-field!

Coker must like athlone,he played a stormer there last year 2!!!

that was a rubbish team hill started he should start moore decie and if decie is still injured reilly cokers good but the two of them are better yelvies a brilliant player is probably somes hit right back though billy woods ****ed our team up

oh no.where do you think ramblers will finish because on most newspapers and websites they dont expect ramblers to gain promotion

what are you blowing about???????????

Solely based on last seasons performance and assuming a small improvement ye should be in the top four.

Does third and forth place guarantee a play off position again this season?

i dunno?

it should

ya its the same as last season

Ramblers 4 Promotion

well go up automaticly