Willowbank boss McCrory daring to dream as club head into biggest game in their history

West Belfast outfit lock horns with newly-crowned Steel Cup champions Comber at Seaview tomorrow (2.30pm kick-off)

Willowbank captain Pearse Devine with Comber’s Mathew Tumillson at Seaview ahead of the Border Cup final. Pic: Stephen Hamilton

Willowbank boss Decky McCrory

Willowbank players Pearse Devine and Gary Manson at Seaview ahead of the Border Cup final. Pic: Stephen Hamilton

Comber Rec lifted the Steel & Sons Cup on Christmas Day. Pic: Andrew McCarroll

The time has come for Willowbank to show the Amateur League exactly what they're made of.

That was the message from the club's manager Decky McCrory on the eve of tomorrow's Border Cup final, as he prepares the west Belfast outfit for the biggest game in their history against newly-crowned Steel Cup champions Comber Rec.

Perhaps for the first time, the Bank head into a cup final as underdogs. Previously, when wrapping up two Junior Shields, a Junior Cup and two Cochrane Corrys, as one of the top sides in junior football, McCrory’s men were well fancied.

But this time it’s different. With their history, their Premier Division pedigree, and now a second Steel Cup to boot, Comber come into the Seaview showpiece shouldering the favourites tag.

But the bigger they are the harder they fall. While those previous successes suggest Willowbank are by no means an unknown quantity in the Amateur League any more, in just their second season at intermediate level, they’ve still to land that big knockout blow, the kind that makes other sides sit up and take notice.

Willowbank boss Decky McCrory

But now opportunity knocks. Ambition has certainly never been in short supply at the Bank, and McCrory is confident his team won’t be found wanting on the big stage.

"If you're not moving