The Nire manager Benji Whelan has revealed how his team had planned to take the game to Ballylanders in yesterday's Munster club SFC quarter-final.

The approach paid off as the Waterford champions stormed into a 1-7 to 0-3 lead by half-time, and eventually triumphed on a 1-11 to 0-7 scoreline to set up a semi-final meeting with Cratloe.

"The thing about playing an ultra-defensive game is that, if you go behind, you're under pressure straightaway," Whelan said in the Irish Examiner.

"That's what I said to the boys, if you can get ahead of these teams it poses a different question to them and that's what they did."

The manager felt The Nire were in the right frame of mind going to Kilmallock.

"They were really focused, even on the Thursday night after the county final I felt, 'They're back on the boil already'."

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