Tonbridge Angels (0) 0
Bromley (0) 1 Hooper 17
Attendance: 389
Admission: £7 Senior
Programme: £2.50
Mileage: 38/6,225
But as Orient’s Trophy commitment had left Bromley with time on their hands last weekend, added to a league position that sees the Ravens marooned in mid-table with little or nothing of significance to play for in the remaining weeks, the National League side arrived at Longmead with a virtually full strength first team to contest what might have normally been a bit of an irritation.
For Tonbridge the timing was less than perfect. They very much have bigger fish to fry in terms of a promotion campaign and with an eye towards Saturday’s league game against Whitehawk and the longer term, those carrying slight niggles were rested to the bench or not risked at all. This brought Luciano Osbourne, from the Under-21s, and Michael Kamara, a player quickly signed on dual registration from Woking, into the starting line-up.
At the final whistle fine performances from the two custodians saw a highly entertaining game restricted to a single goal for the visitors and a place in the Final where they will meet Maidstone United, who saw off Gillingham via a penalty shoot-out.
David Gregory, in the Bromley goal, was the first to excel after 11 minutes when he made a brilliant double save from Sonny Miles with Liam Smith’s ambitious overhead kick that narrowly cleared the bar ending the danger.
Bromley took the lead on 17 minutes when a Smith clearance was quickly returned to the flying Dennon Lewis who got to the bye-line before pulling a cross back to JJ Hooper who tucked it home from close range.
Buoyed by their goal, Bromley enjoyed a period of dominance with Lewis a constant menace. Frankie Sutherland set up Richard Brindley to fire over snd Lewis tested Jonny Henly.
Tonbridge re-found their feet and, after 37 minutes, Gregory was brought back into the action with a superb touch over the crossbar from Alex Read following a Jared Small cross.
Early in the second period it was Henly to the rescue of the Angels as he denied Hooper and the follow-up from Jordan Higgs.
The second half was tit-for-tat until the closing 10 minutes when forced to throw bodies forward to save the tie, Bromley caught the home side on the break and it took a brave save at the feet of Shaike Kamara by Henly to keep the game alive.
A final flurry of corners, in which Henly advanced into the opposition box, saw a header from Arthur Lee go agonisingly wide to usher the Ravens into the Kent Senior Cup Final.
Both sides efforts had been fully appreciated by an attendance of 389 with the Tonbridge support justifiably proud of their team’s performance.
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