TWO TRIBES WITH GOOD VIBES

Any search for the vital ingredients to make a successful club starts with tomorrow’s Munster Club SFC finalists. Tony Leen examines Dr Crokes’ recipe for success as they prepare to meet the ace of clubs

PAT O’Shea and Eoin Brosnan referenced it in different conversations that were years apart, so Dr Crokes’ Kerry Under-21 final success of 1986 is as good a place as any to start.

Last Christmas, I happened upon an old Kerry’s Eye sports almanac for that year — a circulation booster before newspapers recognised the importance of such — and scanning over the two team line-ups posing before the game, I muttered the same then as we all said 24 years ago and 100 teams have said since: how did Crokes beat us?