Kevin Moran: Hard-working Déise can match any team

Kevin Moran says Waterford are more than a match for any team when they work as hard as they did in Sunday’s Division 1A win over Clare.

The result secured the Déise a quarter-final spot against Galway following their win against Limerick and captain Moran was delighted with his team’s character to chisel out the win having been four points down with 13 minutes of normal time remaining.

Acknowledging the efforts of subs like goalscorer Tom Devine, Michael Kearney and Tommy Ryan who sent over the final, insurance point, the De La Salle man said: “A lot of lads have done a lot of work who haven’t played a huge amount of championship hurling. They came on and you saw the difference the bench made. That’s what we’re all about. Without going into too much analysis, it was exactly what we needed. We played well in the second-half and in the way I think best suits us. When we bring a huge work ethic to our game like that I think we can beat any team. We’re all delighted with Sunday’s result and I think we needed that as a developing team. The second half was everything Derek (McGrath) has put into the team in the last couple of years. It came to the fore and we’re over the moon.”