Lynch lifts Rovers in dull encounter
Pulling and dragging, some very poor football for the most part and a mass brawl near the end all made for a sad afternoon’s football and Valley Rovers’ coach Michael Lyon is well aware it’s going to take a mighty improvement if they are to advance further. But he will be pleased with a stirring last quarter display which Cill Na Martra could not match
The eagle-eyed Hugh O’Donovan, who kicked six points, and corner-forward Eoin Manning, with 1-2, were Valley’s scorers-in-chief, but it was the superb play of Fiachra Lynch, operating at full-forward for the second-half, that won the contest for Rovers. Lynch was a thorn in the Cill Na Martra defence, scoring two points and setting up Manning’s 61st minute goal.