Pete McGrath is confident that Fermanagh are good enough to beat Mayo.

McGrath's dark horses will travel to Castlebar on the second weekend of July to face the Connacht champions of the past five years in a Round 2B Qualifier. The hosts will be clear favourites but the Fermanagh boss is in the mood for an upset:

"Sometimes when teams are going in against really top teams - and Mayo are a top team - quite often when you look at a game like that, as we did with the Donegal game, when you add up the bits and pieces, we genuinely believe we were not that far away," the Down legend told The Irish News.

"Sometimes there's that bit of a regret that you didn't grasp the opportunity, that there was that wee bit of self-doubt in players' minds.

"It's imperative going to Castlebar that there's no self-doubt. You respect Mayo for what they've done, yes, but if you go there in awe of them or to pay homage to them and to allow them to do what they like with us to get their own summer back on track, that would be very disappointing.

"That will not be our attitude. We'll go there knowing that if we turn up and play to our potential, we can be in with a serious chance of winning that game. We have to get our performance right, and the attitude has to be 100 per cent right,"

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