Ryan Burns is confident that Hunterstown Rovers can at least retain their intermediate status.

Last year's junior champions open their IFC Group C account against St Mochtas in Stabannon on Saturday and the Louth forward has his fingers crossed that Anthony Monaghan's men will get off to a positive start:

"It's going to be tough playing intermediate championship because we're just coming up from junior and there's no easy games," he tells The Drogheda Independent.

"The Mochtas seem to be flying in Division Two and we lost by a point to them earlier in the year, and Malachis are well up in Division Three.

"I remember we played the Malachis last year and we won the game to secure our position in Division Two and they were a physical team then. Come the championship, they'll be even more physical.

"Hopefully we'll get a bit of a run and if we get out of our group it's more or less anyone's game and it's how you perform on the day.

"It would be an achievement just to stay up in the intermediate championship but at the same time we'd be confident enough that we wouldn't just be looking to stay up." Tweet

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