Oulart The Ballagh's David Redmond says manager Frank Flannery was the key factor in last year's historic Leinster club SHC victory.

The Wexford champions lost four provincial finals on the trot between 2010 and 2013 before finally banishing their ghosts last November and now take on Limerick counterparts Na Piarsaigh in tomorrow's All-Ireland club semi-final in Thurles.

Redmond believes Flannery, who has since joined Kieran Kingston's backroom team in Cork, has been salient in the team's progress over the last 12 months.

"Sure he's the main reason, that's it. Without him I don't think we would have won it," Redmond told The Irish Times.

"And I think we needed someone from outside Wexford, 100 per cent. He's been a breath of fresh air. He made changes that nobody else would have made.

"Every player out there, every player in the panel, thinks they have a chance of playing. Every player feels they can impact the team and we're probably showing our emotions more, expressing ourselves a lot more.

"In training and in games he'd be asking us to do something different, to express ourselves. We were probably too regimental before."

Throw-in for tomorrow's game at Semple Stadium is at 3.45pm.

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