Saturday's GAA previews: Cork in Munster SHC action as knock-out football returns

Patrick Horgan of Cork in action against Seán Finn, left, and Mike Casey of Limerick.  Picture: Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile

Ulster SFC preliminary round: Monaghan v Cavan, St Tiernach’s Park 1.15pm (C Branagan, Down). Live Sky Sports Mix.

It’s been a pretty awful couple of weeks for Cavan. For a team that had hopes of promotion to Division 1 upon the resumption, to go down to Division 3 can’t but have affected their preparations for this derby. And while there has been little between them in championship fare these last few years, the wise choice is Monaghan irrespective of them having no home comfort to back then in Clones. Conor McManus continues to sparkle and while he needs more help from Conor McCarthy and Jack McCarron is a loss there are serious operators in every Monaghan line.