Gardiner happy to face familiar foe

IN his first five years with the Cork senior hurlers John Gardiner played in four Munster finals. Now he’s happy to be back in the summer showpiece, and back against this Sunday’s opponents.

“It’s great to be in a Munster final again, and against Waterford particularly. We’ve had some classic battles with them over the years and there’s no reason to think this will be any different.

“Going into any other game you can probably predict what the other team is going to do most of the time, but with Waterford you can’t even predict who you’ll be marking.