Noel Connors says Waterford's league final win over Cork will have no bearing on their Munster SHC clash with the Rebels on June 7th.

Na Deise recorded a ten-point victory at Thurles in the league decider on Sunday but Connors accepts that it will be a whole new ball game when they return to Semple Stadium to face the same opposition in 33 days:

"Look, championship is championship and you'd be foolish to think what is happening today will have a massive bearing on it. Any day you go out and play a seventy minute game it is totally different," the Passage East clubman is quoted in The Irish Times.

"It is not as if I am going to slip in the same position or as if, we'll say, the Brick will score in the same position. It is a totally irrelevant and anyone who thinks it is going to be the same is naive.

"Any time you win a national title it's great, especially with a great bunch of young lads that really want to work hard for each other; and that have put so much effort in over the last few months, with a small bit of criticism from the offset.

"Derek [McGrath, manager] probably took the brunt of that, but maybe that instilled a small bit of belief in us, because we wanted to kick on and prove to ourselves that we were there or thereabouts and competing with the top."

Tweet

Most Read Stories