Glanmire conditioned for the drive for five

Glanmire 77 Brunell 66: The sheets of post-match statistics don’t lie, but they don’t always capture the cut- through narrative of a ball game. 

Was Glanmire’s clear edge in fitness, their big-game intensity and want, the key differences in keeping the historic drive for five successive National Cup titles alive on Saturday at the Mardyke?

“’Want’ isn’t a word I like,” protested Brunell coach Francis O’Sullivan afterwards.