Austin Gleeson says Waterford are not a defensive team.

Derek McGrath's charges have raised many eyebrows with their fantastic national hurling league success, stunning Cork in last weekend's decider to capture their third-ever title.

"Everyone was saying we were defensive but to be honest, we're not," young wing back Gleeson says in The Irish Examiner. "It's just pure workrate out of all of us and that is getting us where we are.

"Brick [Michael Walsh], last year he was centre back and midfield and he was thrown up at wing forward this year and he doesn't care. He's just there for the team and it's the same for everyone. It's all team, it's no individual. It's heart and togetherness.

"Fergal [O'Brien] has been great coming in, no disrespect to Keith Hennessy who was with us last year. He was also very good, but the way Fergal has us we're bouncing off the ground. It's working for us so far.

"The first couple of nights [training], everyone in the dressing room was blowing. There were fellas stepping out and getting sick, as expected, in pre-season. But after a couple of weeks, because it was so hard, everyone took to it. It worked for us and it is still working for us."

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