A win against Derry City and a late goal from Chris Cleary in last weeks draw against Finn Harps has seen Mark Hutchinson's side progress to this stage. Senior team manager Paul Cook has praised to work of Hutchinson and the previous manager Dessie Cawley for the achievement of reaching this stage and the fact four members of the u21 squad have appeared for the Rovers senior team this season

“We are pleased with that. We are trying to get a bit of structure into the club now so we can improve on and off the pitch, we are trying to get the club structured better so we can have a good u21’s and can have players coming into the first team”