Cavan defender Padraig Faulkner hopes he and his team mates can put together a performance against Tyrone in the Ulster SFC quarter-finals this weekend that will help them put their recent relegation woes behind them.

The Ulster champions suffered a shock demotion to Division 4 at the hands of Wicklow last month and now face into a battle against the Red Hands on Omagh this Saturday (throw-in 4.30pm).

Speaking to RTE Sport, Faulkner, an All-Star at full back last year, hopes that it could be the perfect encounter for a team which has taken a its fair share of criticism in recent weeks.

"The people that were clapping you on the back last year telling you were the best in Ireland are some of the ones that are telling that you're the worst player on the pitch now!" said the Kingscourt Stars clubman.

"Anyway, you just have to get on with it and look to the future.

"When you look back in five or six years' time, or whenever I stop playing football, it's something that will always stay with me, that the title was won and it was such a privilege to win it.

"Tyrone have always got the upper had on us in the previous championship games.

"Maybe the break from the league will do us good. We can regroup, refocus. It's something that really needs to happen with us coming off that league campaign but we have been going well in training and there has been bite. Maybe the two-week break did do us good."

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