Derrygonnelly Harps would love to become Fermanagh’s first Ulster Club SFC winners.

Harps retained the Fermanagh SFC with an emphatic victory over St Joseph’s on Sunday and their captain Ryan Jones hopes they can now bid for the Seamus McFerran Cup, having been edged out in a semi-final replay last year.

“We want to challenge ourselves, we want to see how we do against the so-called bigger teams and we now have four titles in a row, so it is up to us lads to step it up and really compete on that Ulster stage,” he told The Belfast Telegraph.

“In Fermanagh club football, you need to put a few championship wins together to get that belief, among the young guys especially, that we are as good as anybody in Ulster.

“We were unlucky in the first couple of years, we met quality opposition in Slaughtneil, and last year against Cavan Gaels we conceded five goals and you are not going to win too many games doing that.

“But we will get our heads down now. We will enjoy this, and then in three weeks' time we are playing the Monaghan champions, which will be no easy task, but those are the games you want to be playing in.”

Tweet

Most Read Stories