With Galway club Kilkerrin-Clonberne one game away from a fifth successive All-Ireland club football title, it's scarcely believable that for a many of the players still involved, there was a time when they struggled to get over the line.
A first provincial title in 2013 was the start of four finals in five years with Carnacon. Those were evenly split, but the Mayo’s side victory in 2017 is the last time another club has had possession of the Connacht title.
There were a pair of All-Ireland semi-final setbacks, while a first appearance in the decider ended in defeat in 2019 to Mourneabbey.
It is the last time Kilkerrin-Clonberne tasted championship defeat, a remarkable run that stretches four All-Irelands on the spin and 52 games.
"I think those experiences and those losses stood to us going forward," defender Nicola Ward tells RTÉ Sport.
"There's no sign whatsoever of the motivation dropping. You'd see that in training, never mind in the matches. It's very easy to keep going year after year when you're coming back to a successful club.
"We're all very competitive and just want to stay on top for as long as we can because we know it's not going to last forever and there is going to be a day that our team will knock us off the top."
Of the starting team that came up short the 2019 final, 10 started last time out in the semi-final defeat of Comeragh Rangers, where they restricted the Waterford champions to just three points with centre-back Ward scooping the player of the match award.
The 2024 Footballer of the Year believes a key reason behind the bulging trophy cabinet is the retention of so many talented players.
"I think the success of this team and of our club is keeping everyone together," the 29-year-old says. "Nobody that I know has intentions of going abroad or to Australia."
Kilkerrin-Cloberne are seasoned campaigners at the business end of the season and there is comfort in following a similar routine, a significant contrast for their opponents on Saturday with St Ergnat’s of Moneyglass who are making history as the first Antrim side to reach a final.
"We've the same bus driver," Ward explains. "We leave at the same time. We stop in the same place and have the same food. So in that aspect, it'll probably be a little advantage to us while it's new to Moneyglass."
Despite the shock victory over Kilmacud Crokes, the general consensus is that Moneyglass will be powerless to stop the reigning champions extending their extraordinary run and edging closer to Ballymacarbry’s record seven titles in a row.
The sides haven’t met before, though Ward insists that getting past Crokes – a side they know well – plus their dominance of Antrim means they have been "on the radar" for some time.
The sticky defender, who won her third All-Star on the back of another stellar campaign with Galway this year, appreciates that while everyone likes an underdog, her team-mates are paying little heed to outside noise ahead of Saturday.
"I'd be the same myself if I was watching the same team win over and over again. It's nice to see someone new win and someone else get a chance at silverware or an All-Ireland medal, but in our team, we don't associate ourselves with anything that anybody else is saying outside our own core group.
"We have no intentions of handing our trophy over to anyone else anytime soon. As I keep saying, we've experienced about 10 years of the journey of trying to win our first All-Ireland medal.
"Every year that we did lose, it just takes so long to get back to the next year to go at it again. While we're on this journey, we just keeping going because it's not going to last forever. Someone is going to come along and knock us off the top soon."
Watch the Camogie club finals on Sunday with RTÉ Sport. Ballincollig v Camross from 1.55pm in the intermediate final on RTÉ Player followed by the senior final of Athenry v St Finbarr's from 4pm on RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player.
