Youngster Séan gets audience with classy Austin Gleeson

The Waterford hurlers have won many new fans this season and even in defeat the men from the south east continue to show their class.

The echoes of James Owens’s final whistle which confirmed their five point Munster final loss to Tipperary had barely faded when an eager young supporter asked a crestfallen Austin Gleeson for his autograph.

The conversation which followed for the next 30 seconds will be etched in young Seán Walsh’s memory for the rest of his life.