Oisin McConville wants to see the Wicklow public get behind his side after being left disappointed by the level of backing so far this year having set up a clash with Dublin in the Leinster Football Championship quarter-finals.
The Garden County won four of their seven matches in Division 4 of the Allianz Football League, narrowly missing out on promotion.
Aughrim will like be filled to capacity of up to 7,000 next Sunday, with McConville hoping the occasion and the game will stand to his team.
He said: "We haven't had the support we wanted all year. Hopefully this is one to entice them in and see what this team is about because one thing about us, you can see today, regardless of how badly it's going or how many balls we're kicking wide, we just keep going and we have serious pace in our team.
"A lot of people would have said coming into this game, 'do you really want to win this?' [because Dublin are next].
"But we have to win the games we're supposed to win. We take it from there and it happens to be the Dubs up next. It is an onerous task and we won't shy away from that but if you're going to gain experience, days like today and then going into the Dubs next week, even the preparation and the build-up, are valuable.
"What was here today, 500 or 600 people? The crowd that will be in Aughrim and the opportunity for these guys to play under those conditions in the Championship is bound to help them along the way regardless of what the result is."
McConville was still reeling from how close Wicklow came to exiting against Longford.
It took an equaliser from Podge O'Toole before the end of normal time to deny Longford and extend the game.
Looking back on the match and the extra 20 minutes, McConville said: "I think we had the ball for 87% of the first period of extra time and I think that was probably the difference. We were quite comfortable even though they brought it back to two.
"I knew we had the energy, we had a lot of pace on the pitch and as I say a lot of young lads making their debut and they're eager for it at the very, very least. I thought we finished really, really strongly and it's a credit to them to be honest.
"We wouldn't have been happy at half-time in normal time yet all we needed to really do was clean up the shooting. We had 13 or 14 shots in the first half and we got very, very few of them.
"We owned the ball then for the first 20 minutes of the second half. I thought we played quite well. It wasn't really showing on the scoreboard but I thought our fitness showed in the end and how deep the panel runs. Although it's a good job there's no more subs allowed because we didn't have any left!
"It was just one of those days. It was energy sapping and our boys all stood up and were counted towards the end. I don't know how many Championship debutants we had today. I'll check that later but a lot of lads who wouldn't have had a lot of championship experience played so I'm delighted with it and looking forward to next week now."
