Our Leinster Senior team welcomed league leaders Kilbarrack United to Whitegates tonight. Rovers recent good run has saw them play their way back into the title race. Going into the game Rovers sat in fifth place nine points behind their opponents with four games in hand. Things didn’t start well for Rovers when they got caught cold in the second minute with Kilbarrack scoring to go one up. Ten minutes in Dylan Orr went close to levelling matters but his effort drifted wide. A minute later Kilbarrack were denied a second with Aaron Lynch pulling off a superb save at full stretch. That was the extent of clear cut chances in the first period with most of the play breaking down in the final third at both ends of the pitch to send the teams in at the break with the league leaders one nil up. The second half saw Rovers dictate the early exchanges and they got their reward after fifty seven minutes. Ciaran McGettigan got past his man, his cross picked out Sam Brown who powerfully fired home the equaliser. At this point it was Rovers on the front foot and in the sixty fifth minute they hit the front, Dylan Orr's free kick was met by Jk Moorehouse at the back post to half volley home to give Rovers the lead. Three minutes later Rovers came close to a third when a deflection off an away player clipped the post and went out for a corner. The resulting corner came to nothing. With twenty minutes left Kilbarrack caught Rovers napping with a quick free kick which saw the away team square the game up at 2-2. In the seventy fifth minute Ciaran McGettigan was pulled down just inside the area but controversially a free was awarded just outside. Unfortunately for Rovers the free came to nothing. A minute into injury time disaster struck when the away team struck what proved to be the winner. Rovers had a couple of half chances for a leveller but it wasn't to be. Deep into added time the red mist decended with a player from each side been dismissed for an incident off the ball. In truth on the balance of play Rovers didn’t deserve to lose this with a draw been a fairer outcome. All the lads can do is take it on the chin, dust themselves down and get back to winning ways next week.