Whelan: Waterford heading in the right direction

The camera work may have been shaky but what it captured was a thing of beauty. The footage showed Waterford scoring their first goal against London in Ruislip on Saturday off the back of 11 hand-passes and a few solo runs which covered the length of the pitch.

But for Central Council opposing the restriction on hand-passes, Conor Murray’s score would not have stood yet the composure of the Déise’s play was something to savour. After three opening defeats, promotion from Division 4 was beyond them from mid-February but a hat-trick of victories since then equates to their most successful spell since securing promotion to Division 3 in 2010. And that goal was a crystallisation of what new manager Benji Whelan, who posted the video of the score on Twitter, is trying to instil in his team.