Waterford wilt as Monaghan sizzle

Waterford 0-9 Monaghan 5-21

Monaghan’s sore heads were massaged in a rehabilitative blowout in Fraher Field, as Waterford, still high on life from a first championship win in seven years, crumpled to a sobering 27-point hammering.

Thirty-two minutes — that was how long Waterford kept it maybe not competitive, but respectable. It wasn’t just the fact that Monaghan blasted 2-2 onto their already 1-9 to 0-4 lead, it was the ease with which they did it.