With just one win from four years of Munster round robins, problems run deep for the Deise.
There is a Munster hurling championship game against Tipperary in Semple Stadium, only there’s nothing there for them. Nothing at stake. All the pressure is on their figurehead, Davy Fitzgerald, to get their single win of the championship.
For the second year in a row, they will not be getting out of the Munster round robin. In that period, they only have one win to show for their endeavours, and that coming against a Tipperary team on the first day out in 2022. Former manager Derek McGrath, writing in his column for The Irish Examiner, made this eloquent point:
This season, Waterford played 11 hurling games in Munster at minor and U20 level. They have lost them all. They had five Munster football championship matches and lost all as well. It’s also worth noting they haven’t carried a single management team over from one round-robin to another, with Derek McGrath, Páraic Fanning, Liam Cahill and now Davy Fitzgerald having a go.
They reached the All-Ireland final played behind closed doors in 2020 and reached a Munster final. Across the 2020 and 2021 campaigns, they beat Cork, Clare, Kilkenny, Laois, Galway and Tipperary in championship games.
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