Dan Shanahan still believes Waterford can reach the national hurling league quarter-finals.

Last year's All-Ireland finalists are rooted to the bottom of Division 1A and look odds-on for relegation after losing their first three games, but Shanahan reckons they can save their Spring campaign with victories over Munster rivals Cork and Clare:

"If you win your next two games, you have four points and it will go to head-to-heads. If you get two wins, you are probably guaranteed a quarter-final," he tells The Irish Sun.

"It is hard to see two wins coming - but they will come. I believe in the lads 120 per cent, you don't become a bad team overnight. They are struggling for that bit of momentum, things aren't going right. But we will go back and park the Kilkenny defeat, have a chat and get on with it.

"I hate losing. I hated it as a player and I hate it as a selector. We have nothing to lose going into the Cork game. It's do or die for both teams and if we happen to win, our head-to-head with Cork will be better.

"We have to get better performances to beat Cork and then Clare. We will go back to the drawing board, chat with the lads, see what they have to say and focus on Cork."

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