McConville: Cork should be in year five of the five-year plan

First things first, Oisín McConville has warned Cork not to expect any favours from Armagh this weekend. Back in the league’s second-tier after two seasons in Division 3, the Orchard County are safely tucked away midtable and with neither promotion nor relegation on their radar, Kieran McGeeney’s charges have little to play for tomorrow.

But despite there being nothing tangible for them to chase as the league winds down, former Armagh forward McConville reckons they’ll want to claim the two points on offer so as to finish in the top half of the Division 2 table, not to mind extending an unbeaten home run in the league which stretches back to April of 2017. As for their guests, the arithmetic is fairly straightforward. Ronan McCarthy’s charges must get the better of Armagh and hope that Clare do not do likewise away to Tipperary in order to avoid becoming the first Cork team to suffer relegation to the league’s third-tier.