Ulster Club Football Championship: David McCague hopes to make Clones home advantage count
Scotstown manager David McCague is hoping his side can make home advantage count in the quarter-final of the Ulster Club Football Championship.
The Monaghan champions are set to welcome Donegal winners Naomh Conaill to Clones on Sunday, 9 November (13:30 GMT), a venue that has become a second home to the Scotstown men in recent years.
“The home advantage I think is an advantage in this competition, but you have to make it so,” McCague told BBC Sport NI.
“The only way you make it so is through your performance, and I suppose that’ll be the challenge for us to get ourselves ready for another performance.”
Scotstown picked up their third consecutive county title with an extra-time win over Inniskeen, and McCague believes the manner of the victory will stand to his side heading into the provincial arena.
“There was an awful lot of similarities in the county final with what our experience in the Ulster Championship has been over the last few years in terms of the conditions, the physicality of it, the collisions, the intensity of it,” McCague admitted.
“I suppose it hung on moments, and thankfully those moments fell our way, but it could have been so different. In the grand scheme of things, it has given us a really good test and challenge, which we knew it would.”
