One thing's for sure. The atmosphere at Turner's Cross is going to be crackling tonight for the first live TV fixture of the SSE Airtricity League Premier Division season on RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player.
Bohemians' fervent fanbase will travel in numbers and if the evidence of last year's First Division is anything to go by, Cork City's supporters will descend on their home ground in their droves as the club returns to the big time after two years away.
That backing is something Cork's manager Colin Healy and his young squad will be counting on across 2023.
"I know what the club's about. I've seen it before so it's not new to me," he told RTÉ Sport of the raucous home support as the 2023 season was launched at Dublin's City Hall.
"It was probably new to the players. They mightn't have seen that but you keep telling them if you go and perform, the crowds will come in and they did it. They did it last year and the crowds did come in so it was brilliant and hopefully we get more of that again this year."
The outpouring of joy was palpable among the 6,000-plus fans as well as staff and players last October as Cork City secured automatic promotion to the top flight with games to spare.
It was a largely young squad which carried the day and the main challenge will be to try and consolidate their place in the division.
Beyond the fanbase, there is extra backing from Kildare-based businessman Dermot Usher who completed his takeover of the club from supporters' trust members FORAS late last year.
"Obviously we've got a new owner in Dermot Usher. The takeover went through in December so we were probably late to sign players but it is what it is," said Healy, whose last Republic of Ireland cap as a player came 20 years ago this year.
"We've strengthened the squad and brought in some quality. We're looking forward but we'll take time, we'll build on it and it's great to be back in the Premier Division.
"We've got massive games coming, Turner's Cross will be packed and that's what we want and it's great for the League of Ireland.
"So big things are happening in Cork and it's great to be a part of it. Foras have done a fantastic job over the last few years, they've handed it over to Dermot. It's a special club and Dermot has good ideas and we look forward to working with him."
Usher has promised to be hands-on as an owner and expanding on what that looks like, Healy was upbeat about the future relationship.
"(Usher's) very approachable, he's a really nice fella and will pick up the phone anytime for a conversation," he said.
"He's been in and around the training ground and he's got good ideas."
While teenage striker Mark O'Mahony has flown the coop to a Brighton nest increasingly full of Irish footballing hatchlings after breaking through last season, and veteran goalkeeper Mark McNulty retired at the end of last season after 17 years with the club, among other departures, Cork have cast the net far and wide to strengthen the squad.
A trio have arrived from Scandinavia, while striker Tunde Olowabi has signed from St Patrick's Athletic.
They have also been bolstered by loan signings like goalkeeper Tobi Oluwayemi (Celtic), Ethon Varian (Bohemians) and Matthew Healy (Ipswich).
The productive academy will also be key throughout the season and Healy believes it's a testament to the progress being made at youth level across the country, coupled with the Brexit effect which prevents under-18s from moving to the UK as early as players of his own generation used to.
"There's probably a lot of young players coming through because of the strength of the academies and the amount of work that's been done underage," he said.
"It's been unbelievable the amount of players that they're bringing through and you can see it in our academy.
"We've sold three (players) in the last 2-3 weeks and it doesn't matter what age you are, if you're good enough you'll play.
"The kids go to Europe now as well but (Brexit) probably keeps some of them here till they're 18 but there is a lot of talent in Ireland.
"An awful lot of work goes into it. The underage international teams, the managers, the work that they do, the coaches that we have in the academy, there's an awful lot of work that goes in.
"People don't see that. They only see it on a Friday night when they come out to (games).
"The work that is done from schoolboy clubs, it's brilliant but it gives those kids an opportunity, whether to play at Cork City or go to England to make a career for themselves. So it's been great."
While much of that work goes unseen, tonight at least you will be able to watch some of the fruits of those talent pathways at Cork and Bohs when they take to the pitch at Turner's Cross.
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