There won't be much in Waterford-Cork derby, warns Déise legend Prendergast

Ardmore man Seamus Prendergast says the Rebels will have a job keeping tabs on the red-hot Stephen Bennett.

Seamus Prendergast of Waterford tussles Cork's Cian Fogarty at Pairc Ui Rinn in 2011. The Déise man says 'a lot of the players are going down very easily' now. Pic: Stephen McCarthy / SPORTSFILE

In all his 14 years playing senior hurling for Waterford, Seamus Prendergast’s championship never concluded before June.

Granted, all but one of them featured a backdoor system but this recent pattern of the county’s business finishing in May remains alien to him. The stakes have never been so high, so quickly.