Mayo have a lot of promise but Cork should have enough

It is only when you look at the list of players unavailable for Mayo in Páirc Uí Rinn tomorrow you realise they should be alright in the long-term.

Cillian O’ Connor, Chris Barrett, Evan Regan, Séamus O’ Shea, Tom Cunniffe and Patrick Durcan would be missed by any team and their absence should be enough to hole Mayo below the water-line. But, trying to pick a weak link from their starting side against Cork tomorrow is still a challenge.

Even in the full-forward line, the one line where Mayo appear weakest, there appears to be prospects, with Cork also far from settled given Noel Galvin, Michael Shields and James Loughrey hardly look comfortably in the last line of defence.