Roanmore will meet Ballygunner in the first senior hurling semi final at Walsh Park on Sunday.
Peter Queally has been in charge of the Sky Blues for the past three years and says that the players are a joy to work with.
"They give you absolutely everything. I never get a minute's hassle with them. I remember meeting the outgoing management team and asking them different things before I took the job. They said to me 'whatever you ask this team to do, they'll do it. Ask them to get up at six o'clock in the morning and train five days a week, they'll do it.' I have found out, in the last three years, that they're dead right. No matter what I ask this bunch to do, they do it. They're very united. They're great club men. Nearly all that senior team are some way involved at underage in the club. They put a lot back in because the club means a lot to them."
The Sky Blues lost by 20 points to the Gunners in last year's county final. Queally says that his players want to make amends. "We had a good chat and we were very blunt about the whole thing. I asked them straight out what was the most disappointing thing about last year's final. They all agreed it was the performance. That's the one thing that galls them more than anything that they didn't perform. The big thing going into this game is that we're looking for a performance. We're zoning in on getting a good performance and see where that takes us."
Roanmore v Ballygunner will be the first George Corbett Skoda Big Match on Sunday with Kieran O'Connor and Brian Flannery in the commentary box. Live coverage starts at 12.30 on WLR.
