Waterford Senior Hurling and Football teams named for this weekends games.

Waterford Senior Hurling manager Michael Ryan has named a strong team to play University of Limerick in the first round of this years Waterford Crystal Cup Tournament, which will be played at the WIT campus in Carriganore on Sunday afternoon.

Stephen Daniels will start between the posts for Waterford. In front of him Stephen Daniels, Liam Lawlor and Noel Connors will form the full back line while Lismore’s Padraig Prendergast is joined by Michael Walsh and Kevin Moran in the half back line.

Richie Foley and Shane O’Sullivan are named in the middle of the field, while in attack Dean Twomey, Seamus Prendergast and Ray Barry form the half forward line while the inside forward line will consist of Jake Dillon, Shane Walsh and Brian O’Sullivan.

Manager Michael Ryan also confirmed what most could have predicted after John Mullane had said he would not be involved with Waterford in 2013 that Kevin Moran will be the captain of the senior hurling team for the year ahead with Noel Connors named as the vice captain.

Meanwhile, Waterford Senior Football Manager Niall Carew has named the same team as he named last week for the game against University of Limerick in the McGrath Cup to play Tipperary.

Stephen Enright is named to start between the posts. Tadhg Ó hUallachain, Stephen Prendergast and Conor Phelan are named in the full back line with Tony Grey, Shane Briggs and Ronan Cahill named to start outside them.

In the middle of the field Tommy Prendergast and Sean Dempsey are again named to start while in attack the six players named to start are Conor McGrath, Paul Whyte, Maurice O’Gorman, John Wall, Patrick Hurney and Gavin Nugent.

Last weekend prior to the game with UL, Niall Carew made a number of changes to the team and if he and Michael Ryan with the hurlers were to make some changes to the teams named over the past twenty-four hours, it would not the most major of surprizes that we could see this year.

Waterford Senior Hurlers game with UL in the Waterford Crystal Cup has a 2pm throw at Carriganore, while at the same time in Sean Treacy Park in Tipperary Town the Waterford Senior Footballers will play Tipperary in the McGrath Cup semi finals.