Mayo firepower to rock Rebels

This game has been dominated by some unexpectedly lively pre-match ‘banter’, what with Cork’s claims that Mayo are the experts at tactical fouling and the like. All of which makes a change from them being tagged as Mayo’s weak link.

Cillian O’Connor dismissed the debate about the county’s attacking threat and, while there is a case to point that finger on the basis of the last two All-Ireland finals, they generally don’t struggle outside of September.

Down and Donegal have been hit for a combined 7-35 in the last eight this last two summers and Galway were done for 3-14 in this year’s Connacht final. Yet Mayo come to Dublin as a team that has yet to hit its straps this summer.