Waterford’s bench now a weapon rather than a weakness – Connors

Noel Connors believes that Waterford’s unexpected victory over Clare showed that his team’s bench has become a weapon rather than a weakness, a factor that may be crucial in the upcoming Munster hurling final against Tipperary.

While Connors insisted that Tipp are the country’s second best team behind Kilkenny, with strength from numbers one through thirty, he singled out the off-the-bench contributions of Deise men Tomas Ryan and Martin O’Neill for special praise ahead of his team’s fourth Munster final in a row