Town will be troublesome but experience can swing it for Sars

It is a fourth final in five years for Sarsfields, and a first-ever for Bishopstown, with the Riverstown club favourites with the bookmakers to win the Seán Óg Murphy Cup for the third time since 2008.

When the city side were winning county U21 titles in 2006 and ’07, with many of tomorrow’s starters in their ranks, it was Midleton they encountered as Sars could not get out of East Cork, so theoretically they should not have any fears. Experience is huge here, though, and it gives Sars a massive advantage though strong favouritism means they have to guard against complacency.

That is not likely to be a problem with leaders like Kieran Murphy, Cian McCarthy, goalkeeper Alan Kennedy, Wexford’s Eoin Quigley and Cork corner-back Conor O’Sullivan in their ranks.