Derek McGrath: Waterford must go again because they have to

Cork notched two goals against Waterford but there were at least three other occasions when with a little bit of patience, more could have been scored. 

Waterford need to be playing with a full deck heading into 2026, including Austin Gleeson having a sustained run of club games. Pic: Brendan Moran/Sportsfile

“The secret in my opinion is that we sweat the small stuff more than any other team I have ever encountered. We obsess over thousands of small details that I believe most people would dismiss as crazy, trivial or a waste of time.” (Clive Woodward on Steven Bartlett's The Diary of a CEO podcast) 

Most inter county teams “sweat the small stuff” - what Clive Woodward described as the critical non-essentials that make the environment a winning one.