De La Salle up for a battle

De La Salle selector Barry Murphy knows Sunday will test the Waterford county champions to the limit.

They travel to Sixmilebridge to face Clare kingpins Newmarket-on-Fergus in the Munster Club championship, but is Murphy worried they didn’t get much of a challenge in what was a one-sided Waterford county final against Dungarvan?

“We had a very tough quarter-final and semi-final before that,” countered Murphy. “That stood to us in the final. In fairness to Dungarvan in the county final, they’re a young side and the occasion might have got to them a bit. Whatever about the county final, we’d have put it in to get over the two previous rounds, the semi-final against Mount Sion in particular. That was a derby and we wouldn’t have beaten them in a knockout game for a while.”