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Published 11:48 17 Jan 2020 GMT
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"It is a different era though, so we'd probably take more belief from the fact that we did it against St Thomas' and against Ballygunner..."They shouldn't be fazed by the outsiders tag on Sunday. While the injection of youthful exuberance from James Devaney and Kevin Maher has really drove Borris on this year, the relationship and the understanding between county men Brendan Maher and Dan McCormack has also been key. McCormack wears nine and Maher has six on his back, but it's the former Tipperary captain who drives forward while McCormack sits back into a sweeping role. Maher is able to ghost forward, often without being tracked, and that's paid huge dividends for the club this year. "You don't want to leave a big gap in the middle and expose your full back line to nice balls in, so I just tend to sit back and mop up in behind if Brendan drifts up the field, he likes to drive forward and attack - he takes the frees too...teams will try to drag him around the place, so it gives him freedom to move up and attack the game a little bit more as well...You don't want to change a winning formula..." It's all clicked this year, and they don't want this fairytale to end. "It's probably more than a game of hurling, there's been some great celebrations in Borrisoleigh, it's hard to put it into words how much it all means, it means so much more than an actual match or a game of hurling..." "We were struggling the last number of years to get over the quarter final stage in Tipperary, there seems to be that little bit of belief, that something has clicked this year..." You can watch the most recent episode of The GAA Hour Show here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBQaUgzFzIs
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