Jobstown get the better of Kingswood

KINGSWOOD Castle FC’s woes continued in the Leinster Senior League, Premier Division 1, on Saturday when they made the short trip to Jobstown Celtic and ended up losing 5-3 reports John Mooney.

No matter how hard these lads try they just can’t seem to get the rub of the green, and if their situation does not improve in the coming weeks it will be a real struggle to survive in this Division.

Jobstown aren’t faring much better, but at least they have a bit of daylight between themselves and the bottom two, Knocklyon are bottom and the Castle are just above them, and Saturday’s game was a must win, and win they did.

They got off to a flying start and were 2-0 up inside 10 minutes when Domonic Plunkett headed home at the near post from a corner kick, and before the Castle had time to recover they were even further behind as Kevin Simpson drilled home a free kick from the edge of the area.

However, they dug deep and on 15 minutes were back in the game as Paul Bracken smashed home from a corner, after the Celts keeper Kenneth Nolan brilliantly saved his penalty kick.

But instead of getting better things got worse for the visitors, when they had a player sent off after 20 minutes and really it was backs to the wall stuff.

Kingswood Castle FC lost out to Jobstown Celtic

The home side increased their lead on 35 minutes through Adam Cieslinski, while on 49 minutes Sean Doyle smashed home his spot kick to give Jobstown a 4-1 lead.

Its fair to say the game died off a bit from that point on until Kingswood got a second, in the 70th minute, through Karl Dowling.

But there was never going to be a dramatic comeback and the home side added their fifth on the afternoon on 80 minutes through Dave Simpson, while minutes later the visitors completed the scoring through Brian Barron, to leave them wondering when things will finally take a turn for the good.

Jobstown Celtic beat ten man Kingswood Castle FC

JOBSTOWN CELTIC: K. Nolan, C. Simpson, P. Meadows, F. Brooks, K. Simpson, J. Keating, S. Doyle, T. Doolan, A. Cieslinski, D. Plunkett, S. Dembele, C. Doyle, P. Jones, L. Dillon, C. Doyle, M. Healy.

KINGSWOOD CASTLE: D. Kennedy-Kelly, C. Costigan, B. Barron, B. Donnelly, J. Kearns, J. Dunne, S. Delaney, F. Kinsella, P. Bracken, S. Casey, C. Murray, K. Dowling, K. Synnott, R. Gaynor, S. Kennedy