Newbridge Have Eyes On The Ulster Prize - Doherty

Conor Doherty says Newbridge person had their "eyes connected nan prize" successful Ulster this twelvemonth arsenic they booked their spot successful nan semi-final pinch a six-point triumph complete Madden successful Armagh.

Last year, nan Derry champions fell astatine nan first hurdle against nan Orchard County's representatives Clann Eireann, but having retained their region title, nan ambitions for 2025 are greater.

Newbridge sewage nan shot rolling pinch a preliminary information triumph complete Dunloy past play and carried that momentum into nan Athletic Grounds connected Sunday.

Although good alert nan challenges will get tougher, Doherty is happy to person a semi-final against Scotstown to look guardant to connected nan play of 22/23 November.

"If you had person told america this astatine nan commencement of nan year, we would person taken nan limb disconnected you," he told BBC Sport NI.

"This is simply a title we person a existent appetite for and we're really happy to support moving guardant successful it.

"It was caller territory for america past twelvemonth and benignant of shocked everybody what we did, but I deliberation we had our eyes connected nan prize a spot earlier this twelvemonth aft nan celebrations.

"The crippled (against Dunloy) stood to america and it was bully to get nan cobwebs dusted off. That was different trial and Scotstown will beryllium a different animal again."

Newbridge ever seemed to beryllium a measurement up connected Sunday but Doherty didn't consciousness it was a cleanable capacity and predicts "we'll get an eating for nan missed chances and over-carrying".

He insists they will request to amended if they are to clasp their liking successful nan competition, but says Newbridge will "relish" nan challenge.

"I turned nan shot complete a fewer times very carelessly and that's thing we'll person to activity connected going forward," he continued.

"Kilcoo, Scottown and Erne Gaels are near successful this title and those boys will beryllium looking aft nan ball, truthful we mightiness not get distant pinch those mistakes nan adjacent day.

"It was a good, controlled capacity successful nan end, but bully to beryllium going into nan adjacent information pinch thing to activity on."

"It's going to beryllium a complete different test, but we will relish it. We person plentifulness of dense hitters successful Derry excessively for illustration Glen and Slaughtneil, truthful we will spell into nan crippled pinch plentifulness of assurance but do admit Scotstown is simply a superior team."