Prendergast is the toast of the Deise

UNLUCKY to have been passed over for an Allstar award, Ardmore’s Seamas Prendergast has the compensation of being named ‘Waterford Hurler Of The Year.’

Brilliant throughout the championship campaign in which the Decies surrendered their provincial title to Cork and lost again to the Leesiders, in the All-Ireland quarter-final, Prendergast has also been a model of consistency at club level.

His finest hour was unquestionably in that All-Ireland quarter final against Cork, when the Waterford challenge only faltered in the closing ten minutes. Prendergast was majestic throughout and deservedly won the RTE “Man Of The Match’ award. He was considered by many shrewd hurling pundits to be a ‘shoo-in’ for what would have been his first All Star, but he was inexplicably passed over.