Ulster champions Cavan have left well alone for Sunday's All-Ireland semi-final meeting with Kerry at Croke Park. The team that was named to face Derry in the Ulster final is again listed for duty. This means that Terry Farrelly is named at left corner back with Gerry Sheridan at right wing back although the two switched positions before the throw-in in Clones last month.

There was never any great speculation that the team would be changed despite the excellent performance of Jason Reilly who scored the match-winning goal when introduced as a substitute for Fintan Cahill.

Captain Stephen King pulled a hamstring after only a few minutes of the Ulster final but played on until being substituted on the hour. However, his injury has cleared up and he starts at centrefield.

The team went through a light training session at Breffni Park last night before a small crowd of supporters, including former Tanaiste and All-Ireland medallist John Wilson.

There is still plenty of atmosphere in the county and according to manager Martin McHugh, the team and management appreciate the restraint shown by supporters in not thronging to training sessions, and leaving the players to prepare in a low-key fashion.

There is nothing low-key about the demand for tickets and county secretary Gerry Soden and PRO Barney Cully discussed the vexed issues of ticket allocations and availability of car-parking spaces at Croke Park.

Afterwards, McHugh talked about the team selection: had it picked itself?

"Well I suppose against Derry the last day, we played well. It's not a question of not changing a winning team, it wouldn't bother me to change a team and in fairness, Jason came on that day and played well and there's other lads on the subs that are playing well.

"Last Saturday for instance at training, the B team beat the A team and that creates pressure, but that's a good thing to have.

"When I came down here first, we maybe had - let's be fair about it - 12 or 15 players and I was lucky to have that. But if a player got hurt I was worried about it. At least now, I have 28 or 30 players that are good enough to come into any game.

"Stephen (King) was injured in the first game of the championship, but in the last game he pulled his hamstring after about 10 minutes. But he felt himself that he dropped the first couple of balls - there was always a lot of pressure on Stephen, and hopefully that pressure is gone, that he'd been playing so long for the county and hadn't won anything.

"But we'd been hoping to win it for Stephen's sake and maybe that put extra pressure on him. So pulling his hamstring was disastrous but it all worked out for him."

McHugh points out that he has been very fortunate with injuries since he went to Cavan as manager. Now in his third season with the county, he has yet to lose a player to injury before a championship match. He doesn't, however, ascribe the healthy record entirely to luck.

"We've a masseur, Declan Gartland. I've always felt that it's a very important part of the setup. We've a physio, a masseur and a doctor. Declan's from Dundalk and funnily enough three of the players are at college there, Declan McCabe, Michael Reilly and Terry Farrelly. So it wasn't spending money foolishly. Otherwise we'd have had to send a taxi off to Dundalk for them."