Minute-by-minute action Lucky Armagh survive

O'Rourke said that overall the Breffni boys were the better team and whoever meets them in the qaulifiers will have a tought time.

''I suppose Cavan really played all the football,'' said O'Rourke. ''We didn't really get going.

''We also dug ourselves a great big hole in the second half.

''Maybe were the better team, but it has become our trademark to dig ourselves out of a whole in the last 10 minutes.

''You have to give credit to Cavan who played all the football, but a few of our older guys came on like Kieran McGeeney and Darmuid Marsden who picked off a class point at the end.

''They helped to steady the ship and their experience helped in the end when the pressure was really on.

''When the game moved into injury time we were able to pick off the vital scores.

''Thankfully we have actually got through to an Ulster final without really playing any football.''

I'm very proud of the boys, they were brilliant. I just don't know how it got away from us Eamonn Coleman

Cavan boss Eamonn Coleman was obviously down at the two-point defeat.

''I'm very disappointed. We did very well, but we didn't win,'' said Coleman.

''I made a new rule never to criticise referees, but there were some decisions out there in the second half against us were cruel.

''But when it was all said and done, it was just too much for us in the end with 14 men. Armagh are just too good a team.

''I'm very proud of the boys, they were brilliant. But we lost it. I just don't know how it got away.''

Armagh boss Joe Kernan knows himself that they got out of jail at the end.

''Eamonn has a side who are a young hungry team who have improved with every game this season,'' he said.

''I pity the team that has to meet then in the qualifiers because they will have learned so much from this game.

''We are just glad we are in the final, as we were chasing the game for the most part.''