Waterford’s steady progress to join top table

I took my place behind the Waterford dugout in Nowlan Park yesterday, disguised and muffled up with a hat and scarf, trying to stay as anonymous but close to the action as possible. 

I wanted to observe Derek McGrath and his management team in action and I smiled to myself at the final whistle when he and Dan Shanahan high-fived.

It wasn’t a John Mullane-esque show of raw emotion but you could tell how much the win meant to them.