Seagull Scene SSE Airtricity League First Division Season 2021 Vol. 37 No. 5 WELCOME TO THE CARLISLE I would like to welcome Ian Morris and his Shelbourne FC team and club officials to the Carlisle Grounds for BRAY WANDERERS FC this evening’s encounter. ROLL OF HONOUR Tonight, we welcome back supporters to the Carlisle FAI Cup Winners (2) Grounds for the first time this season with 100 fans allowed to attend subject to Covid guidelines. 1990, 1999 First Division Champions (3) Shelbourne arrive at the Carlisle Grounds top of the First Division. The sides played out a thrilling 3-3 draw 1985/86, 1995/96, 1999/00 at Tolka Park earlier this season and if the First Division runners-up (2) entertainment value tonight is half as good as that game, we are in for a great evening of football. 1990/91, 1997/98 Shield Winners (1) Goalkeeper Brian Maher was on international duty last 1995/96 week making two impressive appearances for the Irish under 21’s last week. National League B Division Champions (2) 1991/92, 1998/99 Former Irish ladies’ underage international Alannah Enda McGuill Cup (1) McEvoy will be joining Vincent Kirwan as co- 2005 commentator on tonight’s live stream of the game on FAI Intermediate Cup Winners (2) LOITV. Alannah plays with Peamount United and last season she won the FAI Cup and WNL. The former 1955/56, 1957/58 Wolfe Tone & Enniskerry star is the grand-daughter of FAI Junior Cup Winners (2) Andy McEvoy who played for Bray Wanderers in the 1955/56, 1957/58 1950’s before moving to Blackburn Rovers. Leinster Senior League Winners (3) 1957/58, 1958/59, 1959,60 The club have appointed Anto Whelan as Head of Metropolitian Cup (1) Player ID and Recruitment to work with our Academy 1976 teams and partner clubs. The role will include developing our Scouting/Talant ID system and European Qualification (2) Cup Winners Cup (1990) developing our scouting network to further develop our UEFA cup (1999) pathway for young potential players which has been the club’s strategy in recent years. Enjoy the game. Bray Wanderers Media Links Michael Duffy, Programme Editor Website: www.braywanderersfc.ie MATCH PROGRAMME TEAM Facebook: @BrayWanderersFC Editor: Michael Duffy Twitter: Contributors @BrayWanderers Michael Duffy, Brian Quigley, Mícheál Ó hUanacháin Instragram: @braywanderersfc Niall O’Driscoll, James Fenton Youtube: Photographs: Peter Minogue https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXRHX2Q4FkTGuPk 5enbqbgQ MATCH PREVIEW – Michael Duffy Tonight’s meeting of Bray Wanderers and Shelbourne Bray Wanderers v. Shelbourne is the 60th meeting of the sides in all competitions. Complete Record Shelbourne are unbeaten in the last five league games Competition P W D L F A against Bray Wanderers. Wanderers last league win League 39 5 9 25 31 70 over Shelbourne was a 2-1 win in Tolka Park in May FAI Cup 10 1 4 5 6 13 2013 with goals from Kieran Marty Waters and John League Cup 6 2 1 3 9 12 Mulroy. Leinster Senior Cup 3 1 0 2 6 8 FAI Super Cup 1 0 0 1 0 2 This season is only the second time in eight seasons Total 59 9 14 36 52 105 that the sides have been in the same division. P W D L F A Shelbourne come into tonight’s game top of the first division and unbeaten in their ten league games to Home 33 4 9 20 28 56 date. They have played six home games and only four Away 26 5 5 16 24 49 away compared to Bray Wanderers who have played 59 9 14 36 52 105 only four home games and six away games. League P W D L F A Bray Wanderers have won one, drawn two and lost Home 21 3 5 13 18 35 once at home this season in the league. Shelbourne Away 18 2 4 12 13 35 have won three and drawn one of their four away 39 5 9 25 31 70 league games this season. The sides played out a thrilling 3-3 draw in the first meeting of the sides this season at Tolka Park in April. FAI Cup P W D L F A Home 5 0 3 2 2 4 Shelbourne and Bray have the joint best record for the Away 5 1 1 3 4 9 least goals conceded this season in the First Division 10 1 4 5 6 13 with both sides only conceding nine goals from their ten league games to date. League Cup P W D L F A Shelbourne started the season with two draws and are Home 4 0 1 3 2 9 on a great run now having won their last four league Away 2 2 0 0 7 3 games and have won seven out of their last eight league games this season. 6 2 1 3 9 12 Wanderers good run of three successive victories and five games unbeaten came to an end with a late 0-2 Super Cup P W D L F A defeat away to Treaty United in the Markets Field a Home 0 0 0 0 0 0 fortnight ago. Away 1 0 0 1 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 2 Ex-Wanderers Ryan Brennan is top goal scorer for the Reds this season having netted seven league goals this campaign. Leinster Senior Cup P W D L F A Home 3 1 0 2 6 8 Away 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 2 6 8 Previous Meeting 22 July 2005 Bray Wanderers 2 Shelbourne 2 Wanderers found themselves two goals down inside the opening eleven minutes of this premier division encounter against the league champions. Owen Heary opened the scoring on seven minutes with a delightful header from Bobby Ryan's corner. Four minutes later, Ryan robbed Andrei Georgescu in midfield and advance to the left-hand corner where he crossed to Glen Crowe who backheeled into Chris O'Connor's net. Shelbourne were well on top, and Chris O'Connor was forced to dive at Alan Moore's feet to deny the Shelbourne defender a third. Wanderers then started to come into the game with Eamon Zayed in particular creating problems for the visitors. Former Bray striker Jason Byrne forced O'Connor to parry a great drive. Glen Crowe blasted over from close range a minute into the second period. Zayed then shot just wide at the other end. Wanderers pulled a goal back on 66 minutes. Stephen Fox played a pass to Zayed, who rounded Fleming and lobbed the ball over the advancing Dean Delaney. Wanderers found a new lease of life and were rewarded nine minutes from time. A cross from Colm James found Co lm Tresson who rounded Ollie Cahill and fired past Delaney. Zayed almost got a winner for Bray from a short free kick from Ciaran Ryan but fired just over. Bray Wanderers: Chris O'Connor; Paul O'Reilly, Jody Lynch, Brian McGovern, Philip Keogh; Colm Tresson, Colm James, Stephen Gifford, Andrei Georgescu; Eamon Zayed, Stephen Fox. Substitutes: Ciaran Ryan (for Georgescu 65), Kieran O’Brien, Barry McGrory, Kevin O'Brien, Robbie Dunne Shelbourne: Dean Delaney; Owen Heary, Colin Hawkins, Dave Rogers, Curtis Fleming; Bobby Ryan, Stuart Byrne, Alan Moore, Ollie Cahill; Glen Crowe, Jason Byrne Substitutes: Jim Crawford (for Ryan 69), Wesley Hoolahan (for Moore 39), Jamie Harris (for Byrne 78), Gary O'Neill, Steve Williams (Gk) QUIGLEY’S WORLD OF FOOTBALL ‘’A Shropshire Lad’’ By Brian Quigley Where were you on 09 April 1975? Not born yet? Can’t as poetic to me as anything in A.E. Housman’s ‘A remember? I know where I was – I was at home Shropshire Lad’. Fred Davies was a Shropshire lad, watching Nationwide on BBC. A few weeks shy of my happy to serve his club in return for a small per-ball fee sixth birthday, a feature on Fred Davies the boating and free entrance to every Town home game. ball boy of Shropshire side Shrewsbury Town stuck in As far as I can tell Fred continued retrieving balls from the memory, so much so that when I watched the clip the Severn until the early 1990’s, by which time he was decades later on the internet, it was just as I in his 80’s. I’m not sure whether he had retired by the remembered it. time the other Fred Davies arrived at the club; the The clip is only four minutes long and interweaves the other Fred Davies being of course the club’s story of Fred Davies retrieving stray balls from the successful 1990’s manager, winner of the 1993-94 River Severn – which was behind Shrewsbury’s old Division Three championship with the club, and the Gay Meadow stadium – with a progress report on Alan first man to bring Town to Wembley [for the 1995-96 Durban’s side as they got closer to promotion from the Football League Trophy final, which they lost to 1974-75 Fourth Division. Rotherham United]. Fred was carrying on in his father’s footsteps. Between Gay Meadow is no more, and Shrewsbury now play at them they had decades of service retrieving balls that the Montgomery Waters Meadow. Retrieving balls had gone out of the stadium from play using a coracle, from the Severn isn’t an issue at the new ground. a small watercraft first designed by ancient Britons. In Thankfully, Fred and his coracle are remembered – it the clip Fred is seen sitting with the backroom staff, is on display in the corner of the stadium’s Sovereign beside the dugout.