Mount Sion, De La Salle and now Ballygunner. That's it. Three Waterford clubs who have made it to the senior All-Ireland Club hurling final.
No Waterford team has managed to climb the steps of the Hogan Stand to lift the Tommy Moore Cup.
While Ardmore managed to lift Junior honours in 2018 and Ballysaggart did feature in the 2014 decider, Waterford has been without a senior title since the competition started in 1970.
The Gunners have knocked on the door on two previous occasions; winning their maiden Munster title in 2001 and then again in 2018. Clarinbridge stopped their roll in 2001, while in 2018 it was Ballyhale who denied them the chance to line out at GAA HQ.
When the club lifted their first provincial title in 2001 Stephen Frampton - who now spends his time as a selector with the Waterford senior hurlers - was a stalwart of the team. While they have been without top honours since the club's creation in 1954, Frampton knows that this Saturday could be the sweetest day of all if they can manage to get over the line.
"I don't know what way I'll react if we win. You know, De La Salle were close a few years ago, it just would be indescribable. I wouldn't do it justice to try and put words on it really. I hope that they try and keep us off the pitch because fellas will be digging sods up off Croke Park for memorabilia"
Ballygunner have been wholly impressive in their run to this final so far dispatching Ballyea, Loughmore-Castleiney, and Kilmallock in the province, before seeing their way past Slaughtneil in a dog fight of an All-Ireland semi in Parnell Park.
Ballyhale meanwhile have done what they've always done - refusing to be beaten until the full-time whistle has blown. They saw their way past Mt Leinster, St Rynaghs, and Clough/Ballacolla in Leinster before meeting St Thomas's in the All-Ireland series; with TJ Reid sending Kilkenny hurling into overdrive as he drilled a late free through a sea of defenders and past the keeper to the back of the net in the dying seconds.
For some context of the mountain that Ballygunner are hoping to summit - they have won three Munster titles in their history going back as far as 1954, while Ballyhale have won two consecutive All-Ireland titles and eight in total - the most of any club by some distance. Birr and Portumna are a joint distant second with four each. Reid, who secured his club's placed in this years showpiece is the all-time record scorer in the championship having put 10 goals and 170 points on scoresheets since he started hurling at senior level. The Kilkenny kingpins also have the most final appearances with nine and they also have the longest gap between title wins at 29 years.
All in all, it's easy to paint a picture of how strong the club is - something that Frampton says has become part of their culture, "There's a fabulous history there in Ballyhale. They're steeped in it, they don't really need to think too much about it. That's the impression you get from Ballyhale. We know what we're up against. We've played them before as well, and played them in challenge matches in recent years as well. So the lads know what they're up against."
While Ballygunner is now one of the behemoths of hurling in Waterford and Munster, it wasn't always the all-conquering force they are today. The club was formed in the mid 50's without a pitch to play on.
"When I was growing up as a kid I spoke about aspiring to be one of the senior players. I watched a Ballygunner senior team playing intermediate. The year before I started senior hurling our senior team won the intermediate championship in 1984. It's not a long time ago. I remember when we did buy our pitch, we were togging out in Bell Lines container that my father got- it had a hole in the side so he got it for nothing from Bell Lines where he worked. For the likes of Billy [O' Sullivan] and the guys in my generation. It's not that long ago that we picked stones off that first pitch in Ballygunner"
The view to starting a hurling club in a small suburb of the city was the brainchild of a select few who Frampton says had the foresight that was needed to know what the future could hold, "The likes of Billy's father - Patrick Sullivan, and Frankie King and Pat McCarty, and Pat Flynn, they were, they were fantastic men. We now have a fabulous facility up there but you know, at the time, we didn't really have anything, and we kind of played in farmer's fields, basically"
This Saturday, Ballygunner have the chance to finally break their duck and get up the steps of the Hogan stand. The club who have dominated Waterford for the past eight years will represent not only themselves, but Waterford and Munster hurling in the process.
"We failed a number of times, but having said that, we've put ourselves in that position a lot as well. We've won a lot more games in the Munster club championships than we've lost I'll put it that way. We've never ever made any bones about it in Ballygunner - we want to strive to be the best, we're not always the best. If we win our county championship, then to try and be very ambitious in the Munster Club Championship, and then try and win as many games as you can really. We love winning the same as everybody else loves winning - it's all about the fun, but it's more fun when you're winning"
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