Familiar foes, Derrygonnelly and Ederney will meet for the fifth time this season when they square off in the league final this Saturday night under lights at Brewster Park.

Derrygonnelly have held the upper hand, winning after a replay in the first round of the championship and most recently two weeks ago when the sides met in the league. Indeed, the Harps have been the stand out team in Fermanagh football this season, a point that is conceded by Ederney manager, Mark Henry;

“They have been head and shoulders above the rest, and that is not me talking them up, it is just the way it has been,” the Derry native explained before adding;

“Ederney drew with them in the championship but they beat us very easily in the replay and they cantered to the championship after that if we are being honest.”

Ederney have battled back well from that chastening experience in the championship and have reached the league final on merit winning a tough play off battle with Roslea at the weekend.

“The players have really knuckled down; first to beat Tempo in the championship play off and then when the league resumed to get ourselves to a league final. They deserve great credit for that,” Henry explained.

His counterpart in the Derrygonnelly dug out Martin Greene has obviously been pleased with the way his team has been playing but is wary of the challenge posed by Ederney.

“I think they are a very good team. I wouldn’t read too much into the last league game where we won because both teams were missing plenty of players. They have proved how good they are with the run of form they have gone on and I think the game will be fifty fifty on the day.”

Greene and Derrygonnelly will play the final without Tiernan Daly, who tore his cruciate ligament and the full back will be a loss for both club and county but the Harps manager is hoping he can welcome back both the experienced Paul Ward to the attack and Ryan Jones to the engine room.

Ederney meanwhile will be without Manus McManus who suffered a concussion and has not yet been cleared to play while they are sweating over the fitness of Aaron Dennison who has missed the last two games with injury. Dennison was expected to train this week and will be given every chance to make the final and Ederney boss, Henry, is looking forward to the challenge ahead;

“Obviously Derrygonelly will enter the game as favourites but I think our boys have worked very hard and we deserve to be where we are and we are going to go out and work very hard to try and win the game. There is a league trophy up for grabs and we want to do everything we can to try and win it.”

For Derrygonnelly capturing that league trophy would represent a new chapter for the club as they have never landed a league and championship double in their history but for Greene, he wants his team concentrating on getting their performance right before they think about writing their own piece of Harps history.

“First and foremost it is a game of football and we have to go out there and try and win the game and that means making sure we try and do the things we have been doing. It’s sixty minutes and we are going to have to work hard for each one of those minutes if we are to be successful.”

Will Ederney be able to find the successful formula to beat Derrygonnelly? Or will it be a case of a clean sweep for the Harps and 2015 going down as the most successful year in the clubs history?

We will find out, Saturday night, under lights.