Sars out to be best version of themselves against standard-bearers Ballygunner

Sars are now the team to have earned a respect and following beyond local walls.

In his third year as Sars manager Johnny Crowley knows what it means to the area to bring back provincial silverware. Picture: ©INPHO/Tom Maher

The GAA news cycle spins a little less furiously at this time of year. A touch more rummaging is required by comparison with the summer feeding frenzy.

An old reliable in the quieter weeks post-county final mania had become the documentation of Cork’s woeful record in the Munster Club SHC. And woeful it was. The ability to dust off and apply only a minor tweak to the version of 12 months earlier was never taken for granted.