Enniskillen Town manager Rory Judge admitted his team were second best to Strathroy Harps in the Impartial Reporter Mulhern Cup final. Enniskillen Town conceded the first goal of the game after 34 minutes, and never looked like getting back into the contention as Harps went on to dominate proceedings.

Enniskillen Town manager Rory Judge admitted his team were second best to Strathroy Harps in the Impartial Reporter Mulhern Cup final. Enniskillen Town conceded the first goal of the game after 34 minutes, and never looked like getting back into the contention as Harps went on to dominate proceedings.

“The better team won and we have no complaints,” said Judge. “We are disappointed. We started alright for the first ten minutes, but we didn’t really make many inroads to be honest. I did think we could have got at them defensively and the first ten minutes were encouraging, but then we dropped deeper and deeper and it was hard to get the ball to stick up front. You have to hand it to them. They are a decent side and they had a fantastic season.” Harps opened up a four goal lead in the second half, and a late consolation for a young Town side never threatened to change the outcome of the match.

Despite their defeat Judge is keen to take the positives from the season, and he believes the experience gained by his younger players will make them bigger threat in the next campaign.

“Given the situation we faced at the start of the season, to reach a cup final and finish in the top three in the league with such a young team bodes well for the future,” he said. “I think we have exciting times ahead if we can keep that crop of players together. Hopefully we will get one or two players in to compliment the players we already have. We have a bunch of 18 year olds who have played 15, 20 or 25 games this year and it is a credit to them, and if we can get a few more in to add to that there could be good things ahead for the club.”