Noel Connors hails ‘incredible steel’ displayed by maturing Waterford in Kilkenny win

Waterford defender Noel Connors paid tribute to his teammates for the “incredible amount of steel” they showed against Kilkenny last Sunday.

The Cats were a point down with time almost up but Waterford kept them at bay for the win, and Connors said: “This is probably a new mentality that we are trying to bring forward, it that was a couple of years ago it would have probably been the opposite, and Kilkenny would have stuck on another point or two. But there’s an incredible amount of steel in this team and you can see with the college lads that a lot of them are at that level.”

Connors impressed on Kilkenny danger man Richie Hogan.