Skins’ head coach Stevie Welsh has urged his side to seize the opportunity when it is there after they reached the Ulster Junior Cup final with victory away to City of Derry last Saturday.

Silverware will be up for grabs as Enniskillen look to make amends for their All-Ireland Junior final loss to Clogher Valley back in January and Welsh wants his players to make the most of the chance when they take on Ballyclare at Kingspan Stadium on Monday, May 8.

“It’s brilliant to be back at Kingspan and for the boys to get another bite at it after January’s game. It is nice to get back and try and end that hurt, and it is a chance to go to Ravenhill and win something.

“I said to the boys that they may have got there twice this year but it doesn’t happen that often, and they need to really focus in and go for it.

“Things can change quick in sport and you may not get another chance for a while, so we have to go there and make the most of it,” he commented.

However, he knows that they face a tough test against a Ballyclare side who will be seeking a cup double, having already landed the Towns’ Cup.

“It will be tough but we’ll focus on ourselves. I think we will have a good game plan and if we turn up and the boys put in all the effort, which I know they will, hopefully everything else will look after itself.

“The two sides know each other well. We play them twice every year in the league and then we seem to get them in the cups every year.

“We seem to come out on top in the bigger games against them, but they will be well up for it. They are a quality team, they have a lot of good players, and it will be a tough game,” added Welsh.

But Skins will take a lot of confidence from what Welsh described as a professional performance against an experienced City of Derry outfit last week.

“We had lost twice to them in the league; both games we felt we left a lot behind us and didn’t fulfil our potential, but we knew with their experience and know how that it would be tough.

“The first 15 minutes, they threw everything at us and they played a different brand of rugby than we would be used to; they went side to side and were quicker than we were used to. But the boys did fantastic, they stood up to them, and were patient and weathered the storm and then took their chances. The performance was very professional, and I was really pleased with it.

“Matty Dane was fantastic at 9, he played at a tempo that really suited us and Eddie [Keys] was superb at out-half in controlling things, and once that first 15 minutes were out of the way it was never in doubt,” he said.