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Cork U20 hurling manager Noel Furlong. Picture: Dan Linehan<\/p>\nJames O’Brien comes into the Cork team for Wednesday’s Fulfil Munster U20HC clash against Limerick at SuperValu P\u00e1irc U\u00ed Chaoimh.<\/p>\n
The Cloyne man replaces the suspended John Murphy, who was sent off in last Wednesday’s defeat, while Mark O’Brien is added to the substitutes’ bench.<\/p>\n
Having fallen just short against the Munster and All-Ireland champions last week despite conceding the first six points, Cork manager Noel Furlong expects the team to respond well.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously, we were disappointed with the result but very proud of the performance,\u201d he says, \u201cparticularly after the first 15 minutes. <\/p>\n
\u201cFirst day out, you’d be unsure on a lot of things, but certainly by the end of the game, we had found out an awful amount about the players and about a new team forming, because it is a new team every year when you’re playing together with such a turnover. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe were delighted with that and we met on Thursday, we did a review and then, just with the week turnaround, the full focus has to switch to Limerick then.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou take the learnings and it\u2019s full-on. With the round-robin, it’s week after week, so you need to have your focus. Limerick were able to look at us, so you could argue it’s a potential advantage for them in that regard, but you’re after having a game under your belt and that’s the other side of the coin. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe need to make sure that our preparation is absolutely perfect for Wednesday.\u201d<\/p>\n
Given the week-on-week nature, the time in between is geared towards recovery. <\/p>\n
\u201cThese championship matches are very high-intensity, so you need to let the bodies recover and you can’t force and try and put too much in, especially with just a week turnaround,\u201d Furlong says.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had a short snappy session on Saturday and a short snappy session on Monday and it’s just a case of running through routines, different things like tactical setups, it’s more walk-throughs than anything high-intensity. <\/p>\n
\u201cAll the work is done really \u2013 I said previously that we had 16 challenge matches and a bunch of trials prior to that so all the heavy lifting is done. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s about maintenance and just refining and, \u2018This worked well, this is an area for development, let’s go after this and try and improve it.\u2019<\/p>\n
Cork U20 hurling manager Noel Furlong. Picture: Dan Linehan<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s no different than any other team, but we’ve done a lot and the lads are driving our standards and our set-up. Our lads are very well-coached and they’re really looking forward now to playing in front of a home crowd at P\u00e1irc U\u00ed Chaoimh. <\/p>\n
\u201cThat’s one thing, I would definitely encourage the Cork public to come out and support this team. You’ve seen the effort and we have exciting forwards, playing an attacking brand of hurling. <\/p>\n
\u201cYou’ve seen the effort everyone gave on Wednesday night, so that’s one thing I would like to encourage.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n CORK (Munster U20HC v Limerick): Ois\u00edn Walsh (Youghal); Darragh Heavin (Russell Rovers), Denis Fitzgerald (Bride Rovers), David O\u2019Leary (Ballincollig); Michael Tadhg Brosnan (Glen Rovers), Ben Walsh (Killeagh), Matthew Barrett (Carrigtwohill); Conor Noonan (Kanturk), Jack O\u2019Brien (Douglas); Barry Walsh (Killeagh), Barry O\u2019Flynn (Sarsfields, captain), Johnny Murphy (Dromina); Finn O\u2019Brien (Erin\u2019s Own), Zach Biggane (Charleville), James O\u2019Brien (Cloyne).<\/p>\n
\n Subs: Tom Walsh (Aghada), Rian O\u2019Riordan (Blackrock), Colm Garde (Lisgoold), Johnny Galvin (\u00c9ire \u00d3g), Jayden Casey (Youghal), Mark O\u2019Brien (Douglas), Craig O\u2019Sullivan (Na Piarsaigh), Cormac Deane (Killeagh), Diarmuid Wall (Glen Rovers).<\/p>\n
\n Additional squad members: James Murray (St Finbarr\u2019s), Jack Counihan (Watergrasshill), Eoghan O\u2019Shea (Ballinhassig), Cillian O\u2019Callaghan (Dungourney), Peter Barrett (Midleton), John Murphy (Mallow).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James O’Brien comes into the Cork team for Wednesday’s Fulfil Munster U20HC clash against Limerick at SuperValu P\u00e1irc…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1964,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-375781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cork-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}