Hartley ‘surprised’ as new-look Gunners eye title

HARD to believe of a club who’ve contested the last eight county finals, but Ballygunner’s Fergal Hartley says his club’s expectations were “modest” before this year’s senior hurling championship began in Waterford.

Though they’d contested the last eight finals, they were missing over half of their victorious Munster club championship side of 2001 and felt they were a team in transition.

Hence Hartley’s frank confession ahead of Sunday’s eagerly-awaited final against Ballyduff Upper.