Waterford ended a 58 year wait for a championship win over Kilkenny last night and manager Derek McGrath was intent on enjoying the achievement.
"We'll go out tonight. We're going to have a couple of drinks tonight," he told the42.ie shortly after the final whistle was blown in their 4-23 to 2-22 extra time victory at Thurles.
"We're two weeks away from the match, so we'll have a few pints tonight. We're going to enjoy it, I think the lads deserve it.
"We'll focus on the Munster Final tomorrow. We'll go out and celebrate this without going cracked.
"You go to two league finals, you go to two Munster finals, you don't turn up for last year's Munster final, you go to two epic All-Ireland semi-finals last year, so the pressure was building on all of us, the management and players to go the next step.
"We're in the quarter-final now but I suppose we're advanced in terms of the opposition we've beaten. The challenge for us it to just take it on again.
"That's the reality. Wexford or the losers of Cork or Clare, tomorrow, there's nothing easy ahead of us. We'd be hoping there'll be some confidence gained from what happened today."
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