Enda McEvoy: It’s set up for Cork to get chinned. They won’t

Should they fetch up in Croke Park on July 20 they’ll do so with a better shout than 12 months earlier. Tougher, wiser, more balanced. Less dependent on individual attackers. Less likely to perform in snatches. They’ll also be surfing a bigger wave, one building since late March, not so much a MacCarthy Cup challenge as a self-fulfilling prophecy. Just as long as they haven’t won their semi-final by ten points or so. - April 19, 2025. 

And so it came to pass, more or less as Scripture had predicted.

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