Cardiff City continue their pre-season campaign at Cork City on Tuesday (19:45 BST) with boss Brian Barry-Murphy acknowledging they have a lot of work to do before competitive football returns next month.
Barry-Murphy will lead Cardiff in his home city as the Bluebirds face a Cork side currently top of the League of Ireland First Division, the nation’s second tier.
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While it is still early in pre-season, Cardiff will hope for an encouraging evening at the Turner’s Cross Stadium having lost 6-0 to Danish side FC Midtjylland in their opening friendly on Saturday.
Barry-Murphy’s team begin the new season with a Carabao Cup tie against Swindon on Saturday, 8 August before their Championship campaign starts with a home fixture against Wrexham nine days later.
“Nobody is under any illusions about the amount of work we are going to need before we get anywhere near the season,” Barry-Murphy said.
“But that’s very exciting for us because we feel as if we have a squad who can improve, and throughout the course of pre-season we hope to add to the squad and improve it.
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“We are very clear on how much work we have to do and we are very willing to do it.”
Barry-Murphy began his playing career with Cork in 1995 before moving to Preston North End four years later.
Cork, who are managed by former Middlesbrough and Scotland midfielder Barry Robson, relinquished a nine-match winning run by losing 4-3 at home to Longford Town last Friday.
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