Wexford edge out below par Déise

IN a game that provided plenty of food for thought for manager Davy Fitzgerald, Waterford turned in a substandard performance in going under to Wexford in a senior hurling challenge to mark the official opening of new dressing rooms for the Brickey Rangers club outside Dungarvan last night.

With that July 11 Munster final date with Cork now in Déise sights, this game threw up far more negatives than positives for Fitzgerald, and most disconcertingly of all will have been the porous defensive play throughout a game in which the Wexford trio of Rory Jacob, Jim Berry, and Eoin Quigley time and time again put the home defenders to the sword.

Among the positives for Fitzgerald will have been the excellent goalkeeping of stand-in keeper Adrian Power, and the fine outfield play of Shane Fives and Eoin McGrath.