On Saturday performance will be everything if Clogher are going to make in two All-Ireland Junior Cup triumphs on the trot.

Coach Stephen Bothwell knows that in a final against your closest rivals, the team who can stamp their authority on proceedings will go a long way to winning.

“You just try and keep the controllables on your side as much as you can and hopefully we can play enough rugby to look after ourselves,” said Bothwell.

“The team that can stamp their game plan on the game will go a long way to getting the result.”

Clogher have been here before and won.

That experience will help with preparation but Bothwell adds that it also comes naturally as well in the build-up to the game with his players are getting tuned in and ready to go.

“I suppose you just go week on week and then the excitement of the week takes over in itself, so there’s a bit more concentration in the boys at training; everything is turned up that wee bit [more].

“You don’t say anything more; it just kind of happens, because everybody knows what it is.

“You’re getting to a final at Kingspan. It doesn’t matter who it is against – you don’t have to be telling the boys to get up for it.”

In fact, Bothwell says it is more about keeping that edge in the players that they will need when it comes to the crunch.

“It is important to watch the other way and you are always on edge too, that you have that wee bit of fight that is going to be needed in the hard parts of the game.”

Clogher have already beaten Enniskillen earlier in the season in poor weather.

Bothwell hopes the weather holds up to give spectators a chance to watch a good game of rugby. And he knows there could be very fine lines between the winning and the losing of the game.

“We’ll have our bits that will be purple patches, and they’ll have their purple patches.

“On the day, it will be players who want it that bit more.

“Getting boys on the ball that matter and there will be a bit of luck, the bounce of the ball – you never know what it is going to be.

“A ball being kicked through sits up for some player, rolls the wrong way for somebody else.”

Throwing nerves into the equation as the players try to play some fast rugby, Bothwell added: “You have nerves that will come in, trying to play faster rugby too.

“The team that can look after the ball that bit better and win the breakdown will be the team that will go a long way to winning it.”

Preparation wise, Bothwell feels like the team are in a good place, and he, like the players, just wants Saturday to come round quickly.

“It has been good. Last week it was good as well.

“We trained last night [Tuesday]; the boys are all in good form, a good turnout with boys who want to push them on to try and get them doing things right under pressure.

“Preparation is good and there is a good buzz about the boys and excitement and a good buzz in the whole community.

“Everybody is on a wee bit of a high. I can’t wait for it.”