Kevin Moran says Waterford have to bounce back from their "embarrassing" Munster hurling final defeat to Tipperary.

As the league finalists prepare to face Wexford in an All-Ireland SHC quarter-final this weekend, the De La Salle clubman also insists that they don't actually play a sweeper system:

"We can't let it define our season," the Na Deise stalwart told The Irish Times. "It is a huge bump in the road but there is no point dressing it up in any other way. We are still in the All-Ireland series; we can still put in a huge performance against Wexford.

"It is everything for us really. We have to get everything right. We have to stop the threat they have in the likes of Conor McDonald, Lee Chin and Liam Óg McGovern. It is important that we work hard. Get the Munster final out of the system as it is a huge opportunity to get back to Croke Park for an All-Ireland semi-final.

"We just have to park it. It was a bad half an hour at the office. We have to go back to what's served us well in the last two years. Obviously the magnitude of defeat is more disappointing, nearly embarrassing, for the players and backroom team and family and friends because people just didn't see it coming. We have to accept it, learn from it.

"People have been giving us this label of sweeper, but we don't actually play with a sweeper system. We just try to get back and pack the spaces and protect our defenders. It just didn't work, it just didn't happen and they caught us out four or five times. They were sucker-punches each time."

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