'This is genuine. The phrase, ‘ten in a row’ has not been mentioned in our changing room once'

Slaughtneill are going for their tenth Derry senior hurling title on Sunday but with Kevin Lynch's in the opposite corner, there's pepper in the mix
'This is genuine. The phrase, ‘ten in a row’ has not been mentioned in our changing room once'

ALL TOGETHER: Slaughtneil players before the All-Ireland Club semi against Ballygunner.

BY half-time of the Cavan county hurling final of 2011, things were looking bleak for Ballymachugh.

They had just 0-2 on the board and trailed by four points. It seemed like a formality that Mullahoran Dreadnoughts were set to continue the greatest ‘winningest’ streak in club Championship history and stretch it out to 22 consecutive years.

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