Connors confident youngsters will excel

You were surprised by all those handy Waterford youngsters. You can admit it. De Burca and Gleeson and Dunford: up to last Sunday week they were a mystery and you were surprised by how well they played.

Not their team-mates, though.

“They did well,” said Noel Connors. “But the one thing I’d say is that a lot of them have very good experience through the underage structures, their clubs, the county underage teams, all of that, so they wouldn’t be lacking in terms of confidence and rightly so.