A Cork victory would be nice, but...

BECAUSE Cork’s priorities are of a higher order these days, I’m sure there are many of the county’s football supporters less interested in success tomorrow at Croke Park than in whether the final pieces of the jigsaw are coming together to ensure All-Ireland success later in the season.

It’s an understandable piece of peering over the neighbour’s wall, so to speak, after the frustration of Cork’s most recent visit to Jones’s Road last September, but this national league final against Mayo is a Division One trophy, and winning it at HQ will be beneficial.

These are the tiny elements that make up the bigger picture. Conor Counihan and his selectors have not been found wanting in their readiness to shake things up in the league, but the key end product from this particular campaign needs to be the emergence of a few extra leaders — especially in attack.