Fitzy gets Déise stamp of approval

IT TOOK delegates less than 15 minutes at last night’s meeting of the Waterford County Board to ratify the re-appointment of Davy Fitzgerald as senior hurling manager for a two-year term.

There was, however, strong criticism voiced by some delegates about what they regarded as the “physicality’’ of the tactics adopted under Fitzgerald for this season’s All-Ireland semi-final against Tipperary and the final against Kilkenny.

One of the critics was Ardmore delegate Jay Prendergast, an uncle of Waterford players Declan and Seamas Prendergast.