Heaney returns home to lift some of the sadness at Bray Wanderers

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Central defender Sean Heaney was the winner of the unlikely Bray Wanderers game at the top of the table to lift some of the gloom at the Carlisle Grounds.

Bray's players did not train all week because of what is now six weeks without pay. Three players have already left the club while captain Gary McCabe did not show up yesterday before his scheduled departure.

Club President Gerry Mulvey will meet the players tomorrow when they hope to be "updated". "It was hard for everyone, everyone was a victim," said director Martin Russell of the situation.

"You have to try to get the most out of it and we'll see what happens this week." The President walked in and spoke honestly with the group the other day and said that he would like everything to be updated by [tomorrow]. "

Lackluster

Despite their misfortunes, Bray started a positive 15 minutes, Daniel Kelly's ball over the goal found the pbad from Ger Pender In spite of his offside, he pbaded Mitchell Beeney while the badistant referee's flag was out of action, and a dull Sligo should have been level two minutes before the break, but the veteran Raff Cretaro did not have a chance. failed to capitalize on goalkeeper Evan Moran's mistake

Cretaro played a decisive role in Sligo's equalizer in the 54th minute, digging a perfect center from the left for winger Adam Wixted from ex-Bray.Moran parried a Wixted drive before Bray got their winner on 74 The mark was bad for Sligo while Heaney met Rhys Gorman's free-kick from the left to find the ball in the head. This is a disturbing defeat for Sligo who retains only two points ahead of Limerick in the relegation match, but with one game to play.

Bray Wanderers: Moran; Harding, Kenna, Heaney, Lynch (Mamaliga, h-t); Walsh, Gorman, O. Conor, D. Kelly; Ellis (O & # 39; Gorman, 70), Pender (J. Kelly, 59). Sligo Rovers: Beeney; Sharkey, McFadden, Mahon, Donelon; McCabe, Cawley; McAleer (Twardek, 59), Cretaro (Kerrigan, 77), Wixted; Drennan (Morrison, 65) Referee: Tomas Connolly (Dublin).