Fogarty Forum: Offaly's Leinster return risks being tarnished by Cork on Saturday

Even allowing for that outlier result Laois had against Dublin in 2019, the average margin of victory by Liam MacCarthy Cup teams in these preliminary quarter-finals is almost 22 points.

UNFAIR: Offaly’s Oisin Kelly scores his sides second goal. Pic: ©INPHO/James Crombie

Cork don’t spare much change in All-Ireland preliminary hurling quarter-finals.

In five of the six last-eight games that have taken place since 2018, Liam MacCarthy Cup teams have won by a collective 132 points. Cork are responsible for 33 of them.