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5th June 2016
06:12pm BST

75 per cent of the SportsJOE population didn't even have them in with a sniff of emerging from their province.
But 70 more minutes of pure control and dominance, 70 minutes of merciless aggression from Derek McGrath's outfit and, suddenly, Waterford have shown themselves as genuine All-Ireland contenders.
Where they were once sneaking under the radar, there are now great big white and blue Deise dots smearing all over those transmission screens.
Pauric Mahony is playing like he has a tractor beam from the posts to the end of his hurl.
Maurice Shanahan doesn't seem to respect anything but his own talent and Darragh Fives was back picking Tony Kelly's pocket one minute and then out the field spreading the ball around like he had the entire Clare team on toast.
Jamie Barron went through his usual lung-bursting shift and then you have Austin Gleeson. Lord above, Austin Gleeson.
The number six is a wrecking ball around his own 45'. He's a steam-roller with the ball in hand and he was scaling the length of Semple Stadium like it was only a game of primary school hopscotch.
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Beneath it all, beneath all the talent and considerable shoulders, there's a menace about this Waterford team. There's heart.
There's the sort of character that's needed to win Munster championships. After the Clare defeat the last day out, there was talk of some of the players having to turn around and head straight back down the road for a family wake.
There's playing for the cause and then there's having just one cause in this lifetime.
Right now, Waterford are on a mission.
They were sucker-punched four weeks ago and they came to Thurles to make damn sure that would never happen to them again.
The way they're going, it could be a long time before they're caught like that again. The way they're going, it could be a long time before they're stopped again.
Waterford are here. And Waterford are ready.
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