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Mon 04 Apr 2007Romance lives - let summer commenceLocker Room:A good day for hurling. Seeing a Waterford man climb the steps in hurling's home to lift a national trophy for the first time in 44 years was a tonic for the game and an appetiser for the summer. A sea of white-and-blue hurling people covered the Semple grass without chastisement from the PA or fear of reprisal from the maors. It was just a good, happy day in the sun.Sometimes, with respect to a defeated team and while tipping the cap to the rules about no shouting in the press box, it's hard not to be glad for a side when they do the business. This Waterford team have been carrying our goodwill on their shoulders for nine years or so now. For the last three or four years they have begun each season, according to us scribes anyway, with customer-loyalty points in the last-chance saloon.