Mayo manager Stephen Rochford expects nothing easy against Cork in Saturday's Round 4A Qualifier.

The westerners are red-hot favourites to progress at the Gaelic Grounds due to the Rebel County's poor form so far in the championship, but their manager points out that the Leesiders are dangerous opponents:

"We've all the seen the negative press that Cork have gotten nationally, and maybe locally as well, after the Munster final but we'd still see them as a big threat. They've got a lot of quality footballers, and they created quite a few goal chances against Kerry. If some of those had gone in maybe the outcome could have been different, the margin of defeat certainly would have been," he told The Irish Eaminer.

"Cork are a big, physical and athletic team and as we saw with the likes of Armagh and Kildare over the weekend, you're always in with a chance of winning games with teams that have those qualities.

"There's a lot of talent in the Cork attack too, guys like Paul Kerrigan, Mark Collins, Peter Kelleher and Donncha O'Connor, who was very impressive when he came on against Kerry. With those type of guys involved, they'll feel they have a right chance of winning."

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