A win is a must for Waterford in National Football League

Waterford senior footballers will look for a second win in this year’s National Football League on Saturday evening when they take on Wexford at Fraher Field.

The Shandon Road venue, one of the most used in the country had to be closed at the end of last year for repairs after a huge volume of games played at the venue in 2015 showed as the year went on as the pitch which is usually in good condition began to look like a ploughed field rather than a playing field with many who are regular visitors to the historic ground left to wonder why more games played within the county are not played at venues like Cappoquin, Lismore, Tallow, Ballyduff, Colligan, Ardmore and Lemybrien which are amongst the best venues in the county, something that would happen in other counties when it comes to the staging of games.

Because of the large volumes of rain that have fallen since before Christmas, there is even suggestions that the game will not go ahead at the Dungarvan venue as there is a chance that the field could cut up very quickly and could well be moved to the WIT Campus at Carriganore.

A win for both sides in this game is a must.

Waterford looked to be out of the competition after two rounds of games but are now well back in contention after a three goal win over Carlow last weekend.

Wexford were relegated from Division three last year and would be one of the sides most fancied to go straight back up but have made it a little hard on themselves loosing to Antrim in the second round of games and another defeat this weekend would almost certainly end that dream.

While Waterford have lost two of their three games played to date by a kick of the ball, confidence will be high going into this game.

They had an excellent win away to Carlow last weekend and prior to that game had good wins over Clare and Limerick in challenge games.

A win for Waterford is vital this weekend and if achieved, with the early pace setters in division three (Antrim and Louth) still to play each other meaning that one or both sides will loose points, Waterford as have Wexford still have a great chance of winning back a place in the Croke Park final in the late spring and in doing so winning promotion from this division which is the main goal this year.