Fermanagh manager, Peter Canavan has said that there ‘will be no complacency now’ after the draw was made for round two of the All Ireland qualifiers.
Another date with Cavan is Fermanagh’s reward for defeating Westmeath in a real thriller in Mullingar.
Cavan put Fermanagh out of the Ulster Championship just a few weeks ago but after they fell by a point to Monaghan in the Ulster semi final the luck of the draw sees them pitted against Fermanagh at Breffni Park the weekend of July 13/14.
“After we beat Westmeath some people were saying there were so called weaker teams that we could draw, teams playing in division four. But if we were drawn against one of those teams then there would have been a great danger of complacency, possibly in the same manner as Westmeath were complacent against Fermanagh but with this draw there will be no complacency now,” Peter Canavan told the Fermanagh Herald on Monday night.
The team were due to meet up again last night at training with the senior football league fixtures called off due to the advancement of the Fermanagh team in the All Ireland.
This will be the fifth time that Fermanagh will face Cavan in Championship football in five years. In 2009 Cavan won in Breffni with Fermanagh gaining revenge the following year at the same venue. Both those games were in the Ulster Championship. Last year Cavan emerged victorious at Brewster Park in the All Ireland qualifiers and repeated the trick a few weeks ago again at Brewster Park in the first round of the Ulster Championship.
Now, meeting in the back door at Cavan’s home venue it is all to play for again with a Fermanagh side buoyed from their victory in Westmeath still the underdog against a bitterly disappointed Cavan who saw their Ulster Championship dream evaporate in Clones last weekend.