SHC Waterford v Antrim:THERE IS much interest in this match, with Davy Fitzgerald in charge of Waterford for the first time. The team is strengthened by the return of Ken McGrath, Eoin Murphy and Eoin Kelly, although the selection of McGrath at full back has raised eyebrows.

Getting pasted by Galway will hardly have heightened Antrim's enthusiasm for a trip to the south-east and engagement with a team that knows it has to respond forcibly to the controversial circumstances of the coup against Justin McCarthy.

With a relegation play-off on the horizon the Ulster champions have in common with their opponents a sense that more important tasks lie ahead.

WATERFORD:C Hennessy; E Murphy, K McGrath, D Prendergast; S O'Sullivan, T Browne, J Kennedy; M Walsh, D Bennett; E Kelly, G Hurney, S Molumphy; E McGrath, D Shanahan, J Mullane.

ANTRIM:R McGarry; A Graffin, N McGarry, M Kettle; C Herron, C Donnelly, J Campbell; K McKeegan, E McCloskey; M Magill, K Stewart, D McNaughton; M Herron, P Richmond, P Shiels.

Referee:M Haverty (Galway)