Tickets like gold dust as Cork name unchanged side
Tom Kenny, Ronan Curran, John Gardiner, Niall McCarthy and Setanta O' h-Ailpín, who all made their senior championship debuts in the victory against Clare, have retained their starting berths.
The sides have met on 51 occasions. Cork have recorded 39 victories, Waterford have won nine and there have been three draws.
Meanwhile Cork County Board officials are continuing to hunt for tickets for Sunday’s final at Semple Stadium, after their official allocation of 22,000 tickets was sold out within hours.
“We expected a big demand but what actually happened far exceeded our expectations” Board chairman Jim Forbes admitted yesterday.
People who failed to get tickets at Pairc Ui Rinn on Monday were given vouchers and that they would have first claim on any additional allocation the Board might receive in the meantime.
But Mr Forbes stressed that that the additional ticket allocation would be very small.
“We are looking,” the county chairman said last night. “And we are still looking. We don’t really know what the situation with of numbers is at present, but I hope we will discover more, later this morning.
“But tickets are going very well in Waterford also, as we are all aware. To be honest if we got between 500 and 600 additional tickets for Sunday’s final we would be going very, very well,” he admitted.
Waterford manager Justin McCarthy and his fellow selectors, Seamie Hannon and Colm Bonnar, may delay naming the team for Sunday’s Munster hurling final until tomorrow night.
With the exception of the well documented ankle injury which is threatening the participation of the skipper Tony Browne there are no other concerns.
Clearly however team management is prepared to give Browne every possible opportunity to win his personal fitness battle, although a final decision on whether or not to include him in the starting fifteen is likely to be deferred until shortly before Sunday’s throw in.
The versatile Peter Queally, a garda based in Youghal, could however be named at midfield depending on the availability, or otherwise, of the former Hurler of the Year, Browne
