Evolving Orchard will have to trust new foundations

MOST of them are only players in our minds now. On DVDs, decaying VHS tapes and in old photos.

By now, only a few pillars remain of the team that Big Joe built, the team that ruled Ulster for almost a decade almost through sheer force of will.

The slow road to disintegration began almost as soon as their greatest triumph when Benny Tierney finally hung up his gloves in the wake of the county’s first and only All-Ireland title in 2002.