The Offaly boss has been looking ahead to tonight's Leinster Final.
Offaly's footballers take the field tonight in search of a first success at minor level since 1989.
They unsuccessfully tried to end the drought five times since then in 2001, 2005, 2006, 2008 and 2010 but came up short on each occasion.
Funnily enough the last time they won the competition three decades ago, the same group also had success on the level in hurling and a few of this bunch will have a similar double in their sights this week.
It's been six long months since Ken Furlong's side defeated Kildare and Wicklow to reach the final with Meath.
Impressive as Offaly were in both games they'll enter this fixture as underdogs. The Royals themselves dispatched Dublin, Laois and Westmeath during successive weeks in December.
Much is expected of this generation locally.
That won't deter The Faithful however as Ken Furlong has been telling us:
'It seems to be that there's a good bounce across all the codes, which is brilliant it's about time we were on an upward trajectory.
It's a very peace-meal championship. It's like playing a cup final having had the cup run six months ago, for both teams it'll just be a final with no momentum or form coming into it because it's six months ago now.
'It's been disjointed for the lads because they've been off for so long training on their own and came back in good shape, so it's been trying to get match fitness back into them. Things have been going well it's just been about playing plenty of football.
We've a great group, great coaches in Stephen and Cathal and we're as well prepared as we can be given the circumstances.
On their opponents:
I mean they took Dublin out the first day, overcame Westmeath and disposed of Laois so that's a fair form line in fairness to them and talking to a few other counties, Meath were the ones they were tipping for this championship and there's a fair bit expected of them in their own county.
On Offaly going forward in this age grade:
It's all about being competitive and getting up the levels and it being consistently competitive not just one team now and no one else comes into line for another few years.
It has to be systematic that it's one tide raises all boats really.
The team has been announced this lunchtime and the starting XV is as follows:
David Dunican; Diarmuid Finneran, Tom Hyland, Ciaran Conroy; David Dempsey, Cathal Ryan, Geordi O'Meara; John Furlong, Harry Plunkett; Marcus Dalton, Alex Egan, Pauric Robbins; Jamie Guing, Keith O'Neill, Cormac Egan.
Here's the panel named in full:
Brian Gavin will be calling the action for Midlands103 from TEG Cusack Park in Mullingar from 7:30pm this evening.
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