MORE, more, more – how do you like it? Slaughtneil hurling captain Chrissy McKaigue is content with their success so far, no more, but he knows they must give more to win more.
As good as the club's supporter are, they will demand more too, he knows.
Even though the Emmet's became the first Derry side to win the Ulster Club SHC last year, the celebrations were fairly low-key when they comfortable retained the title on Sunday.
Perhaps that's because they were firmly favoured to beat Ballygalget, and did so by 12 points in the end, leading McKaigue to muse:
"I don't know what to expect any more. I think Slaughtneil people now, the expectation will go through the roof.
"To me, it's just about winning. Win ugly, win well, whatever it is, nobody really remembers how you won."
To keep winning, he accepts that their hurling must improve against the Munster champions – whoever they turn out to be – in next year's All-Ireland semi-final.
The Ardsmen kept the game fairly tight, within five points until Slaughtneil struck their second goal from a penalty in the 53rd minute, but McKaigue pointed to the demands on his club's dual players, who are also representing Derry in the Ulster Club SFC:
"Ah, look, Ballygalget, their number one sport is hurling. We are trying to juggle two.
"If we are being completely honest, there are maybe more boys in our team at the minute that put more into football through no fault of their own. That's just the way the schedule is.
"We are happy with the victory. We know how much we have to improve on, and now we have a firm focus on one code.
"To be honest, with the demands of the last number of weeks, I think one code needed to disappear because it was becoming just a wee bit too much."
Since mid-August, Slaughtneil have had nine championship matches in both codes, with a 10th to come this Saturday evening against Tyrone champs Omagh in an Ulster football quarter-final.
McKaigue pointed out the problems that schedule has posed for their hurlers: "I am a big believer that you only get what you work for. And at the minute, we have tried to do our best over the last number of months to put as much as we can into the hurling but it just hasn't been physically possible.
"Hurling is a very technical game, football is a completely different game and that's one thing we will have to look at now because [last season] against Cuala, we didn't get enough stick-work done and hurling done.
"We are going to have to look at that and we are going to have to improve on that and hopefully the physicality, the fitness and the desire and all those other things can make that improvement in the tactical area."
The hurling skipper believes his team has already improved – and although he's 28, he insisted that there's youth on his side:
"I think we are a better side than last year and that goes with the age dynamic on the team.
"I listened to a podcast saying that [Antrrim champions] Dunloy were younger than us: 100 per cent we are younger than Dunloy and we have a very young side.
"Our team have a lot of improvement in us but we have got to keep at. It's just not going to happen overnight for us.
"We are a better side than last year. I wouldn't be here if our team wasn't improving because it would be a waste of our time."
Slaughtneil lost out in their All-Ireland semi earlier this year to eventual champions Cuala of Dublin by 13 points, but McKaigue wasn't too disheartened by that:
"We have to accept that Cuala, last year they beat us well, but Cuala were beating everybody well. Cuala were the best club team [last season] by an absolute mile.
"So that's the standards we have got to get to. I am happy to use that experience because it keeps us grounded and we know we have a lot of work to do, but Slaughtneil people accept that."
For now, calm as they were afterwards, Slaughtneil will enjoy being Ulster champs again, insists McKaigue:
"Last year was a very different emotion, it was just pure and utter relief.
"There was a lot of emotion attached to last year but in many ways this year has been maybe more satisfying because, and I have no problem in saying this, there are so many people around the country and in Ulster that said we were a flash in the pan.
"They said that we probably deserved it because of how close we came in years prior, but we wouldn't win it again.
"So, I think it's fair to say that great teams win back-to-back titles. We are now in that list."
And they still want more.
