Fitzgerald hails Waterford's 'fighting spirit' after much-needed Munster win

DAVY FITZGERALD HAS said Waterford had to block out the external noise to produce their rousing three-point victory over Cork.

“The thing we had to do is just not listen to what was being said outside. As I told you earlier on in the year when you heard rumours about certain players not playing, I said don’t always believe what you hear. “That was for Shane. He has been incredible. The form he was in was frightening. I promise you. Frightening. He would have been starting by a mile today.

While he was delighted to hear the chants echo around the revamped stadium, Fitzgerald knows that Waterford have a lot more work to do if they are to escape the Munster round-robin.“It would be nice if we had days like this all the time. I can’t say we will but all I can tell you is you see how hard we worked and we will continue to do that.

“Some days you get them right and some days you get them wrong,” said Fitzgerald. “We tried Shane on them and we tried Dessie. Stephen was there as well.

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