Peadar Healy: If Cork beat Kerry, ‘God knows where we might finish up’

Either the Cork camp is reading from the same script or they genuinely believe that victory over a top-six outfit will lift the dark clouds and reinstate them as a leading football force.

Speaking at the launch of the Munster Championships in Muckross House at the beginning of May, selector Eamonn Ryan insisted that a change in the fortunes of this current crop, when it does arrive, will happen as seamlessly as flicking on a light switch.

A week prior to their Munster quarter-final, Paul Kerrigan contended that Cork, on their day, have it within them to take down Dublin, Kerry, or Tyrone.