Waterford sweeper system won’t work against the best teams

We have written in this column all season about Waterford’s ‘system’ and posed the question — would Derek McGrath’s masterplan hold true in the ultimate test against Kilkenny in Croke Park?

The answer was emphatic on Sunday: Waterford’s gameplan will need refinement to compete with the best teams in the land.

Both Kilkenny and Tipperary exposed Waterford’s inability to add a goal threat to a system where the majority of their players play in their own half. The stats on the day back up this theory.