There are three changes to the Waterford Minor hurling team for this evening's Electric Ireland Munster Championship Quarter-Final.
The Déise are away to Limerick in Kilmallock as St. Molleran's duo Bobby Drohan and Josh Hegarty along with Jake Henley from Tallow are included in the starting fifteen in place of Daniel Lalor, Cillian Ryan and Conor Tobin.
Waterford lost both of their round-robin games against Tipperary and Clare and will be looking for significant improvement from last Tuesday's 14 point defeat to the Banner.
That's something that the Waterford squad and management are well aware of, according to manager Shane 'Shiner' Ahearne who was speaking on last night's On The Ball programme;
"The last day was a very poor performance from ourselves, we knew all along that it was going to come to a knockout match at some stage. With the groups you didn't know whether you were going into a Semi-Final or Quarter-Final in our case, we're now in a Quarter-Final so we definitely need to improve even on our display against Tipp - beaten by two points which was disappointing, the game against Clare, it was very poor all around and we need to improve a lot on that".
The Déise line-up for this evening's game is as follows;
1. Brian Callaghan (Abbeyside)
2. Conor Keane (De La Salle)
3. Bobby Drohan (St. Molleran's)
4. Tony Brennan (Ballygunner) - CAPTAIN
5. Billy O' Connell (Abbeyside)
6. Aaron O' Neill (Ballygunner)
7. Darragh Walsh (Abbeyside)
8. Sean Mackey (Fenor)
9. Peter Cummins (Brickey Rangers)
10. Michael Morrissey (Fourmilewater)
11. Jack Twomey (De La Salle)
12. Gearoid Power (Clonea)
13. Ben O' Sullivan (Lismore)
14. Josh Hegarty (St. Molleran's)
15. Jake Henley (Tallow)
Throw-in is at 6:30pm, and we'll have on air updates here on WLR courtesy of Gavin Whelan.
The other Quarter-Final this evening will see Clare host Kerry in Sixmilebridge for a 7pm throw-in, with Cork and Tipperary already safely through to the last four.
