Ace attacker Seanie Johnston handed Cavan manager Tommy Carr a major boost last week when he returned to full training for the first time in three months.
The lively Cavan Gaels forward missed the Breffni County's entire NFL Division 3 campaign after breaking a bone in his elbow while playing for his college DCU against UCD in the Sigerson Cup in February, but is set to return to action in the championship.
However, Carr stressed that it is by no means certain that he will be fit enough to start the Ulster SFC quarter-final against Fermanagh on June 13.
"Seanie will be back at training," Carr told the Irish News.
"He has been physically training, but this will be the first time he has been doing any ball work. But it won't be full on just yet, it will be slow.
"It's 50-50 whether he will be back at that level (for the Fermanagh game). It's a possibility but we are hoping he will."
Carr was pleased with Cavan's 0-14 to 0-10 victory over his former Dublin charges in last Monday's senior football challenge on the new 3G pitch at Kingspan Breffni Park.
"It was a good day, a good game and I thought it was quite a physical game and there were some good performances. But you just need to be careful with challenge games and reading too much into them.
"They can just give you a little bit of a false line of where a team is. It's really just to get players playing football at a good level more than anything else."
And here is a reminder of just why we need him back...
