Browne fears Déise chance has gone

Waterford legend Tony Browne pictured believes his county have lost the momentum in their battle with Cork and could pay the price in the Munster SHC quarter-final replay on June 8.

“Certainly for me, Cork looked a little off championship pace and you’d wonder was that being in [Division] 1B having an affect on it,” he told 93.1 Life FM’s Square Ball.

“Our guys didn’t have a great league campaign in [Division] 1A but there was one thing I noticed in the warm-ups that the Waterford fellas really looked sharp and their warm-up was of high intensity. They looked like a team that had worked since that Dublin game in the last two months. That told in the game. It took Cork 50 minutes to get into the game and up to championship pace. You’d have to wonder why that happened. Waterford worked their socks off from the very moment the ball was thrown in. They ran themselves into the ground and that’s the one thing you would notice. If you look at the stats, the tackle rate was way above Cork so they won a lot of 50-50 balls. They ran themselves to a standstill. Going to a replay you’d wonder will it take Cork so long to get going the next day. I don’t think it will.”