Derek McGrath: We should have closed it out

Outside the Hogan Stand media room, Waterford selector Fintan O’Connor was having a relieving cigarette. Inside it, Derek McGrath was sitting down for his own type of catharsis.

The Waterford manager’s ease in front of the media is well-known at this stage although he stopped short when it was put to him that Kilkenny were like Dracula in the sense they can’t be killed off.

“What? You want me to run with that quote, do you? Come on now!”