John Mullane

You know, the incredible support, the colors, they're going to be going into this, this Sunday's match against Limerick with playing with a bit more freedom.

Now that kind of weight is, is that to be lifted off the, off, off their backs, but it can change that.

You will know this, this is the beautiful thing about this cultural monster championship.

It will change week to week.

And look, my predictions of, you know, Cork finishing fifth, you know, if Cork lost, look, it's very easy to finish first, as you can fifth in the Munster Championship.

I mean, look at Tipperary.

If Tipperary were to be turned over the weekend, they're all Ireland champions.

That's every chance that they could finish fifth.

So, like, you know, even the Cork defence, I have to give great credit to Ben O'Connor.

He...

My prediction was that the current defence, that they will be opened up if he's stuck by the 6-6, if he still went with the same six defenders.

But no.

Well, look, he's had to freshen it up by bringing in three real kind of live wires in Barry Welch.

As weeks go in Ireland, it was a great week for Cork Ireland.

But it could have went the other way because it was a ballsy call, number one, to leave off Barry Welch from the under-20s.

Now, I can only imagine what way the under-20 management team were probably fielded at the time.

And that game was in the balance last Wednesday night.

Yeah.

down to Waterford if Waterford would have overturned Cork that night you know Cork possibly could have been gone out of the under 20 challenge because they would have been out of the round Waterford would have had them dead so you know and what you would have had is you would have had a peed off under 20 management but it worked out really really well Barry Welch came up delivered the goods was excellent Sunday

Buckley started as well gave a man of the match performance and it was the manner in which Ben O'Connor