The Hurling 2020 committee is expected to recommend penalties be changed from the current one forward versus three defenders on the goal-line to one forward versus the goalkeeper.

ALL-IRELAND SHC ROUND 2:

Cork and Waterford to renew rivalry as Munster championship gets underway tomorrow.

Waterford hurler Philip Mahony is the latest Déise hurler to join the county’s lengthy injury list having been ruled out for the season.

Waterford manager Derek McGrath has suffered a devastating triple injury blow with confirmation that Philip Mahony, Maurice Shanahan and Stephen Molumphy have all been ruled out of the Munster SHC quarter-final with Cork on May 25.

Waterford 1-17 Dublin 4-13

WATERFORD 1-13 DUBLIN 1-10

Waterford 0-22 Galway 1-13

Waterford 0-22 Galway 1-13

Midleton CBS 2-17 Blackwater CS 0-15

Mr Consistency’s absence to be felt keenly by Waterford.

Eamonn Cregan recently expressed concern with the growth of “hurling scrums”, claiming that players are determined to get the ball into their hand instead of pulling first-time. Is this true? Is ground hurling gone forever? Or is today’s game much more precise and controlled than the game of old?

The Waterford hurlers face into the new season without their two first choice midfielders from last summer's Championship, Stephen Molumphy and Philip Mahony.

Work commitments mean Stephen Molumphy won’t be available to Waterford’s hurlers this year.

Michael Ryan was au fait enough with Waterford’s goal stats this year to know how much of a problem finding the net has been for his team.

There were sighs of relief among most Cork hurling supporters when this draw was made and they found themselves paired with Waterford but those sighs of relief could be turned to groans of regret by tomorrow evening.

Never mind all the other action today and tomorrow, this is the real big game of the weekend and it has a real story behind it in Tony Browne.

Both Clare and Waterford deserve massive credit for the effort and commitment on display in Thurles on Sunday.

WATERFORD captain Stephen Molumphy says he has no preference whether Davy Fitzgerald’s successor is from the county or not.

REIGNING Waterford SHC champions De La Salle needed an injury-time point to salvage a draw, 1-13 apiece, against Foumilewater in a thrilling group championship game at Dungarvan yesterday.

TO say this was a Lazarus-like performance from Waterford in Thurles yesterday is stretching things.

HERE are your options for a Stephen Molumphy interview.

AN opportunist 56th minute goal executed by Ballygunner debutant Brian O’Sullivan ensured Waterford fended off the challenge of Offaly at blustery O’Connor Park, Tullamore yesterday.

WATERFORD had to plan without their captain for the second half of yesterday’s Allianz hurling league clash with Kilkenny.

Kilkenny 2-16 Waterford 1-13

DAVY FITZGERALD will have his appeal against a 12-week ban heard by the GAA’s Central Hearings Committee (CHC) at Croke Park this evening.

A WIN for Waterford, but a redemption of sorts for the Model County men in Wexford Park.

WATERFORD captain Stephen Molumphy last night called for Davy Fitzgerald to remain as senior hurling boss, admitting that the players, and not the manager, employed the wrong tactics in the All-Ireland SHC semi-final defeat by Tipperary.

WATERFORD captain Stephen Molumphy isn’t long articulating the leadership principles in his team.

Last month saw Waterford claim their first Munster title since 2007, but their current captain Stephen Molumphy has his eye firmly set on All-Ireland honours - the road to which begins with a provincial derby against Tipperary at Croke Park on Sunday.

ASKED if it’s been easier this year, with no All-Ireland club commitments to distract him, Waterford’s Kevin Moran is swift to respond: “I wish we were going to February or March every year!”

All-Ireland SHC Munster final replay

LAST weekend, and not for the first time this year, you’d have to say the football outshone the hurling, big-time – a bad Leinster final in Croke Park.

Waterford 0-22 Clare 1-15

IN strictly hurling terms he’s had the best of a number of worlds, has Stephen Molumphy.

THOUGH there was little more than pride at stake, this clash of rivals produced an interesting spectacle at Nowlan Park yesterday.

Tipperary 1-19 Waterford 2-16

YESTERDAY we cast aspersions on the man who said a little learning was a dangerous thing (it was Alexander Pope, of course; please stop ringing in with his identity, there are no prizes on offer).

YESTERDAY’S encounter in Fraher Field, Dungarvan, came with more angles than a bagful of squares: Justin McCarthy, formerly of Waterford, back in the Déise with Limerick.

Waterford 4-13 Dublin 0-12

Kilkenny 2-23 Waterford 3-15

Stephen Molumphy has been named at centre-forward in the Waterford team to face Tipperary in Sunday's Munster SHC final (Semple Stadium, throw-in 4pm), although doubts remain over the Ballyduff Upper clubman's fitness.