New Waterford manager Davy Fitzgerald expressed satisfaction with his side's emphatic All-Ireland hurling qualifier win over Antrim at Walsh Park. The former Clare goalkeeper said: "We still have plenty of room for improvement but they (the players) haven't had a competitive game for almost five weeks and in those circumstances they played well individually and as a team. "Antrim could either have come out and lay down or attack us and they chose the latter. For a time in the first half they stayed with us but then came the goals and they were the difference. "We still have much to work on, many aspects of our play needs to be improved on because our next test on July 19 will be a far more searching one." Eoin Kelly, who scored 2-3 in a man of the match display, claimed the Waterford players didn't feel under any extra pressure following the events which led to Justin McCarthy's departure. "Personally I didn't, and I don't think the team did. Davy just said to us 'go our and express yourselves' and that's what it's all about. "Who doesn't want to go out and play hurling on a day like that, that's what we were born to do. You dream as a young fella of playing hurling for Waterford, and that's what we are here to do. "You don't become a bad team overnight. People have been writing this and that about us. We're just thinking of two weeks' time and the next game." Tweet

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