Waterford hurling boss Davy Fitzgerald says that his team won't be at full throttle for the National League. The Déise start their defence of the title against Dublin on Sunday in Fraher Field.
“We’ll be trying to win every game anyway number one, " Fitzgerald told WLR's Lár Na Páirce show. "There’s no point saying different. Will we be at championship pace for the league, as fast as we can be, as nippy as we can be? No, we won’t. There’s another gear we’ll try and get to maybe from around end of February, start of March as regards our speed. I know there’s stuff going to break down during the league. I know supporters will be going ‘why are they doing that?’ We have to try and get it. I’ll give you an example. Our puckout win ratio for the last number of years hasn’t been good. Well under 40 per cent. We have to try and get more in that area. That’s one. There’s a few more areas that I won’t go into. It’s going to be frustrating maybe at the start but we have to give ourselves opportunities of getting more in that area alone. We’ll understand if people get a bit down about certain things, we know where we’re going and what we’ve got to do. We would like to give ourselves X amount of opportunities from our puckout rather than just hitting them down the field. There’s lots of things we’re working on. The only thing I can say to genuine, honest supporters is that we’re working extremely hard but there might be a small bit of pain before the other side comes to where we need it to come to.”
Hear the full interview with Davy Fitzgerald on Lár Na Páirce from 6.10.
