What a difference a week makes for Waterford

Waterford 3-21 Clare1-8

How else does one explain their runaway win in the Guinness Munster SHC in Thurles yesterday, an outcome influenced almost as much by the ineptitude of the Clare challenge as the brilliance of Justin McCarthy's team, so superbly prepared and so strategically well-placed.

Despite those variables a 19 points difference at the finish could not have been anticipated.