Rowberry leaves City to take over at Newport

DOM Telford showed off his credentials early to new County boss James Rowberry as he notched two goals in three minutes, but it wasn’t enough to earn his side a win as they were reduced to nine men in the second half.

Hours after the 36-year-old Rowberry was named as the successor to Michael Flynn as manager, Telford stepped up to peg back lowly Carlisle’s dream start and give his side control of a game by the end of the first half.

Rowberry will be unveiled to the players, staff and media today after being given permission to take up his first managerial role in football by Cardiff City, where he was a first-team coach.

His coaching CV has seen him being involved with the Football Association of Wales since 2006 and gaining his UEFA pro licence at the age of 29.

He has big shoes to fill, but at least knows the club, having worked at County before in the academy and as a first-team coach.

If things started badly for his new team, with Carlisle opening the scoring through Joe Riley after only 44 seconds, by the end of the first half County were ahead.

Telford got an early sighter from a short corner move in the seventh minute, but his curling shot went inches over the bar. Matty Dolan then forced a great save from the Carlisle goalkeeper with a free kick.

The breakthrough came after 27 minutes after a good build-up down the left flank involving Courtney Baker-Richardson and Ryan Haynes. Haynes went charging forward and picked out Telford with an inch-perfect cross to the edge of the box.

The diminutive striker controlled the ball, turned on a sixpence and struck the ball home for the equaliser. Three minutes later he cut in from the right flank and prodded home an equallyimpressive second.

That put County in the driving seat, but Carlisle wouldn’t go away. Joe Day was forced to make a couple of sharp saves in the second half and then Joe Clarke was sent off for handling on the goalline after the ball had hit the post and then been headed back towards goal.

Zac Clough, whose delightful back-heel had paved the way for the opening goal, stepped up to score from the penalty spot.

Then Haynes got his marching orders five minutes from time for a second yellow and any chance of three points was washed away.