Kilcoo's Corey believes 'any team can win' Ulster
Kilcoo boss Martin Corey believes anyone can win the Ulster club title
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Kilcoo manager Martin Corey believes "any team can win" the Ulster Club Football Championship ahead of Saturday's quarter-final with Loughmacrory.
The Magpies will enter into the provincial arena for the 13th time in 14 years, after they beat Carryduff to win a seventh Down title in a row.
"They probably are the most experienced team in it, and you can't hide away from that, but it's not something that comes into conversations and not something that we would talk about," Corey admitted to BBC Sport NI.
"As I say to everybody, we just focus on the next training session, the next game and that will always be our approach."
The Down champions have featured in four of the last five Ulster finals, winning two, but will hope to make amends for last year's decider when they lost to Tyrone champions Errigal Ciaran after extra-time.
"They're just a different bunch, they're just so hungry. It's something that you never understand until you're actually involved with them," Corey added.
"They are very workmanlike, their workmanship on the field at training is just incredible and that then follows through into the game."
Kilcoo's run provides a stark contrast to their opponents, who picked up the Tyrone title for the first time in their history by beating Trillick by a single point at Healy Park.
"To never win a senior championship and to do what they've done, it's just incredible and to take out a quality team like Trillick, they really turned heads," said Corey, who watched the game from the stands.
"Both teams were tactically very well set up, but it was just that quality and energy they had and that was probably the difference."
Monaghan native Corey leads a club into the Ulster club arena for the first time, but is well aware of the size of challenge that awaits his charges.
"I always find Ulster football, county and club at a different level. It's just so intense.
"To me it is at a different level. That's not saying that it's a better standard of football or anything. It's just any team can win it and every team wants to win."