Patrick Horgan: Good start would be half the battle for dangerous Déise

A win for Waterford would blow the entire Munster championship wide open. 

ON FIRE: Cork must not fall into the trap of overfocusing on Waterford's Stephen Bennett. Pic: Ben McShane/Sportsfile

The Waterford County Board has obviously put a lot of money into Walsh Park in terms of facilities for spectators, but when I was there recently for the Waterford-Tipp Munster championship game what really caught my eye was the playing surface.

It was seriously impressive - you hear a lot of praise for the playing surfaces in Thurles and Pairc Ui Chaoimh, and it’s well deserved, but I think Walsh Park’s is now one of the best surfaces around.