Ahead of Sunday's Munster club football final, Austin Stacks manager Stephen Stack has described The Nire as "a serious team".

The Kerry champions are red-hot favourites to leave Pairc Ui Rinn with the silverware but Stack insists that the Waterford kingpins should not be underestimated:

"It doesn't matter what put a badge on them, whether they're from a so-called weaker county, or otherwise. These fellas put in the same effort that we do. The club championship is a very different competition anyway," he points out in Thne Irish Times.

"Not many teams from Kerry have won it, and it's littered with teams from so-called weaker counties that do very well in it. The likes of Eire Og, Baltinglass, Rathnew. St Gall's are another. It's a completely different mind-set, and a completely different competition.

"And we haven't been in this situation in 20 years. Our view is that this opportunity might never again come around. We were in a very difficult place, after losing the county final last year, and until I go to the grave, I'll never forget the loyalty and defiance that the supporters had on our behalf.

"But The Nire are a serious team, very physical, with some very natural footballers, with probably the best 17-year-old in the country right now in Conor Gleeson. But the one thing we always say to each other, as a squad, and a management team, is we never want to have any regrets."

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