Waterford train ‘back on the tracks’, says Derek McGrath
Yesterday’s five-point victory over Dublin secured Waterford’s first All-Ireland semi-final appearance since 2011 and when asked if it would have been a disappointment not to reach Croke Park after such an encouraging start to the year, McGrath replied:
“Myself, Dan [Shanahan] and Fintan [O’Connor] would have discussed and spoken about that ourselves, and we did our best not to let that filter through to the players. Privately, we allowed ourselves to say the perception would be ‘flatter to deceive’ that when it was really put up to them by Tipperary and Dublin, the chinks in the armoury were found. There was an element of that driving us as a management, but we’d never say that to the players.
