Ulster Senior Football Club Championship final
Kilcoo v Errigal Ciaran (Tyrone)
Sunday, Armagh, 3.30pm
KILCOO have played in 12 of the last 15 iterations of the Ulster Club Senior Football Championship and have done almost everything you can do in the competition bar one thing. They have never played a Tyrone team.
That was a point made by former Kilcoo captain, and Ulster Club Championship winner Gerard McEvoy, ahead of their Ulster Club final against Errigal Ciaran.
“That will add a bit of wee bit of spice to it. It is unbelievable that we have never run into a Tyrone team after all the matches that we have had in it,” Gerard said.
“I think we will come up against something that we have never experienced before.”
Errigal Ciaran boast the unusual record of being the only Tyrone team to have won an Ulster title.
They have a few star names on their squad, such as Ruairi and Darragh Canavan. But Gerard pointed out that Kilcoo will not focus on just those two players.
“The Canavans are two fantastic players. I grew up in an era when their dad was playing and watched him in the Ulster Championship. You can see that DNA has caried on.
“But it is doing a disservice to Errigal Ciaran to highlight them when there are so many other good players who get the ball to them boys and allow them to flourish.
“They can hurt you if you only focus on the Canavans.”
In the full article Gerard McEvoy explains why Kilcoo are better placed than ever to handle the new challenge facing them.
