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JUSTIN McCarthy emerged from the Waterford dressing room and didn’t have to be prompted to offer his thoughts on where it all went wrong for Waterford.
The Waterford manager felt his injury-hit team were outplayed by a Clare side, he reckoned would have beaten any team on Sunday.
Despite posting a more than re- spectable total of 0-23, the crucial CUTS sTOLN Ke) e Mole AN (ole) IMA Nome CUE KM BEls one element inseparable from Water-
ford performances from recent times — goals.
“T felt the way they performed they would have beaten any team” said McCarthy afterwards, ““We came up here with high ambitions but at the end of the day they outplayed us. They got some great scores, from frees and from play. The two goals of course were a big issue. We scored 23 points which wasn’t bad but we needed the goals as well.”
McCarthy wasn’t getting too down though. He is around long enough to know that plenty more twists and
turns lie in the road ahead.
“There is a lot of hurling to be played in August. We’re playing in five weeks time, which is a good gap in between. We’ll regroup and reorganise ourselves and hopefully ZNO MEO stom DON LEDC Sh MAYA 00MM oLomCed (or-B Kore Mel OO), then. Its not going to be an easy road back, there’s no doubt about that. Having said that we’re experienced enough too. A lot of teams will fall by the wayside between now and Au- gust.”
McCarthy said and lingering feel- ings of despondency will be well and
truly purged by the time Waterford enter the qualifiers.
“If you win youre on a high, if you lose you’re on a low. At the end of the day, these things come and go over a matter of days. You’ve a different outlook coming into the next game will be Galway or Antrim. We’ll just have to take every step as it comes and who knows what the outcome will be in the long run.”
The All-Ireland that everyone in Waterford yearns and hungers for.
Not on the evidence of this tired
display though.