They didn’t just defeat the Munster champions on a day when wind and rain spoiled things for players and fans alike. The truth is that they annihilated them and weren’t flattered by their 16-point winning margin.
Waterford may point to the absence of several key players as some kind of explanation for a display that was the poorest since Justin McCarthy took over the managerial reins. However, it runs much deeper than that, and
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