After serving up a thrilling contest last Friday night, Derrygonnelly and Ederney will do battle again this Saturday night back at Brewster Park (7.30pm) to decide which of them will progress through to a SFC semi-final meeting with Kinawley.

Both sides will see areas that they will have to improve on from the first meeting and will look to take that into the replay but another tight encounter looks to be on the cards.

Ederney started slowly the last day, going 1-04 to 0-00 down, and that is one thing they will be keen to address this time around. St. Joseph’s manager Mickey Cassidy expected the Harps to make a fast start last Friday night.

“We always knew that they were going to have that big start, then it was about how far they could get away and we knew ourselves that no matter what the score difference was, the only one that mattered was the one on the board at the end of the game and we just had to keep playing away as no team goes through a game dominating for 60 or 70 minutes,” he said.

Ederney did settle after that period to turn the game on it’s head and three goals put them five clear only for Derrygonnelly to respond in the final ten minutes to force a replay.

I thought it was too early to sit that deep and we invited the pressure,” stated Cassidy.

So, what are his thoughts on the replay?

“Each game had a life of its own. We will take the positives out of the drawn game and look to correct some of the mistakes we made but it is a whole new game and every game is different,” he said.

Derrygonnelly will be pleased with how they started and finished the contest but they will be concerned with how they were sliced open by Ederney for the goals in the middle period of the game.

Derrygonnelly joint manager Mick Glynn says that they are pleased to still be in the championship but they must deal better with the goal threat that Ederney pose.

“We are happy to be still in the championship but disappointed at letting a seven point lead become a five point deficit,” said Glynn.

He added: “However, you have to be pleased with the resolve and attitude of the players to come back and score five points in the last 10 minutes.

“Ederney are very clinical with goal scoring opportunities and that is something we have to address for the replay.”