Roy Malone: 'We'd still see ourselves as wanting to dine at the top table'

Offaly players run out for their team photo before the O'Byrne Cup group A match against Dublin at Bord na Mona O'Connor Park in Tullamore. 

This is an interesting week for Roy Malone, he and his girlfriend from Castlelyons in east Cork at sporting loggerheads over an Allianz League fixture loaded with significance for both counties.

Offaly will host Cork in Tullamore on Sunday and whoever wins what is effectively a relegation play-off will remain in Division 2. The loser will fall through the Tailteann Cup trapdoor. The stakes couldn't be much higher.