Saturday, September 19 (Charleville)
Newport scorers: Brian ‘Clemy’ O’Sullivan (2), Sean ‘Bond’ O’Brien (2) & Dave Murray.
These two sides met three weeks ago in Derryleigh Park, when Newport lost by the odd goal in an 11 goal thriller. That was a game that Newport felt they should not have lost and the lads were anxious to put in a good performance to put things right.
Newport are still missing a number of players due to injury and holiday and Charleville’s astro-turf pitch is never an easy place to get a result and this was looking like it would be a tricky encounter. Charleville started the brighter and we were lucky that they scuppered two great chances in the first 10 minutes. Continue reading