Ballygunner boss Denis Walsh says the prospect of facing Thurles Sarsfields wasn't even in the back of his players' minds ahead of last Sunday's Waterford SHC final.

The Gunners shot down Passage on a 4-20 to 1-12 score-line to set-up a Munster quarter-final date with the Tipperary champions on Sunday at Semple Stadium (throw-in 2pm) and Walsh is expecting a mammoth challenge from the Premier men.

"We weren't looking past Passage so our heads are only clearing now and the focus is beginning on Thurles - it'd be madness, absolutely, to have been thinking past Sunday," Walsh said in the Irish Examiner.

"Sarsfields have a phenomenal club team, so in a lot of ways the pressure is off us in one sense. People might be saying after the year Tipp had, and a lot of the Sars lads were involved, that the pressure is on them, but the pressure was on us too last Sunday and we responded well to it.

"A lot of these things are looked at in hindsight, really - if we win on Sunday people will say then the pressure got to Thurles, whereas if Sars win people will say they rose to that pressure."

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