Defensive Déise style won’t win All-Ireland, predicts Prendergast

Seamus Prendergast was up front about his distaste for Waterford’s ‘defensive’ style of hurling under Derek McGrath when asked for his thoughts late last year.

And his brother Declan has echoed those sentiments in the wake of the county’s loss to Wexford in their Allianz League opener, adding that he believes the approach will never bring the Liam MacCarthy to the county.

Unlike Seamus, who played for a year under McGrath in 2014 before retiring from the inter-county game, Declan was long gone by the time the current boss took control.