Anthony Daly: For me, it’s time for Clare to man up and deliver

Whatever team Waterford name, they will fancy their chances. They will take a lot of confidence from the manner of last year’s All-Ireland quarter-final win, especially the way in how they streaked away from Clare in the last quarter. Waterford ended with 3-27 that afternoon. Anything close to that will be enough again

Dessie Hutchinson scores Waterford's first goal during the All-Ireland SHC quarter-final against Clare at Páirc Uí Chaoimh last year. Photo by Harry Murphy/Sportsfile

On my way to Thurles for the opening day of last year’s Munster Championship, the Clare-Limerick quarter-final, I pulled into a layby in Nenagh.

The exercise was as much to take the temperature and mood of a new winter championship than to somehow try and compare it to the boiling and eternal summer Sundays that we always associated with championship.