DONAL O'GRADY: Spring lessons must be learned

The lessons a manager can learn from the league will help shape the decisions they make for the championship.

That’s why, after such a tight league, the managers in the Allianz HL Division 1A will be gleaning plenty from the matches they’ve been involved in.

For Clare and Waterford in particular, the experience so far has been as positive from a psychological point of view as it has been from a playing outlook.