Nine-time All-Ireland winner Jackie Tyrrell expects Wexford manager Davy Fitzgerald to have a surprise or two in store for his former Waterford charges this weekend.

The two counties clash at the newly re-developed Pairc Ui Chaoimh on Sunday afternoon for a place in next month's All-Ireland SHC semi-finals and Tyrrell feels that the Model men will have been devising a plan in recent weeks to curtail Austin Gleeson's influence at the Cork venue. 

"There's going to be tactics in the game but I'd hope they're not the overriding factor because it's two different teams." Tyrrell told RTE Sport. 

"Wexford are really in bonus territory with Davy Fitz. They are riding the crest of a wave down there, but Waterford have a bit more pressure on them. 

"They are on a four-year journey with Derek McGrath. They've got the Kilkenny hoodoo off their backs, that was really weighing on them, so they can really go and have a go, but there's a bit more pressure.

"Yes, tactics and systems will come into play, but you would hope, with the talent available on both sides, that they really just go at it.

"It's set up to be a really different game, it could be cagey, it could be open, we just don't know. With Davy involved anything is possible.

"Davy will know. He was down in Waterford, he knows the culture, and he'll have been watching Waterford closely this year. He'll have a plan up his sleeve for Austin Gleeson, maybe like he did with Joe Canning in the Leinster final. He'll have his homework done."

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