Waterford sowing the seeds for future success

MUNSTER SHC QUARTER-FINAL REPLAY:

Glass half full or glass half-empty, Waterford readers? A touch of both, perhaps, if that isn’t a contradiction. Glass distinctly half-empty at teatime last Sunday week. Glass currently, with the benefit of reflection and the passage of 13 days, half-full and likely to remain so for the remainder of the summer, irrespective of the outcome tomorrow.

Forget that Waterford blew a nine-point lead a fortnight ago or that it was the other crowd who got the last score of the game. Remember instead that a team with a new manager and with five players making their first championship start had been good enough to get themselves nine points ahead of last year’s All-Ireland finalists in the first place. That’s the place to put the emphasis. The half-full, not the half-empty.