Things have not been easy for Fermanagh minor boss Keith Reilly. 
The Maguiresbridge clubman has had something of a nightmare when it comes to injuries this season and in the week leading up to the biggest game of the year he is nervously awaiting word on how fit a number of his key players will be. 
“At this stage Lorcan McStravick and Conor Cameron would be doubts. Lorcan has nine stitches in his shin and had an infection too and he hasn’t trained in two weeks so we will have to see how he is while Conor has a partial dislocation of his shoulder so it will be this week before we can make any sort of call on those two players,” Reilly revealed. 
McStravick has been a star attacker for Fermanagh this season while Cameron has been performing well at corner back. 
McStravick’s Tempo clubmate, Tiarnan Bogue, who is also vice captain of the team has been troubled with an ankle injury which has restricted his training of late but he is expected to make the starting grid on Sunday.
There was welcome news however as Erne Gaels man Michael Óg McGarrigle has been back training for the last number of weeks. He has missed a lot of training but the fact that he is back and injury free is a big boost to the Erne cause as if he is able to take part on Sunday he will add physicality and guile around the middle of the field; 
“He has trained for the past two weeks and this game might still be a game too soon for him but it is good to see him back out there again and we just have to work on his fitness levels,” the Erne boss explained.
Reilly and his young Fermanagh squad didn’t win a game in the Ulster Minor League and since then the raft of injuries has left it difficult to prepare to the level that they would like although the Fermanagh manager is confident that the players can produce.
“Since the league has been completed we haven’t been able to have our strongest panel together because of injury but we are looking forward to the game and telling the players that whatever happened in the league in terms of results is gone and that all that matters is what happens on Sunday. We have been instilling in the players that it is all about performing, everything else will look after itself,” he stated before adding;
“And to be fair to these players everything we have asked of them in training they have done and there has been a big big lift from the players in how they have trained. They have really knuckled down and gone to the limit.”
One area where Fermanagh will have to improve is there score taking, a point which Reilly concedes:
“We have been working on getting the ball in and using it well and converting a greater percentage of chances because we have been creating them and I know if we can produce our best that these boys have an awful lot of potential in them.”