Seven switch it up options for Cork against Clare

It would be a surprise if Cork don't make several changes for this weekend's Munster SHC game against Clare.

Robbie O’Flynn of Cork in action against Adam Hogan of Clare during the 2024 Allianz Hurling League. Picture: ©INPHO/Natasha Barton

Given Pat Ryan’s second championship campaign as Cork manager is not even a week old, there ain’t a large bank of evidence to study and pick apart. In looking at how he has reacted and adapted in going from one round-robin fixture to another, we only have last April and May to work with.

Four was the largest number of changes Ryan made from one game to the next during the 2023 Munster edition. That was when coming out of the drawn fixture against Tipp and heading up to Ennis to play Clare in Round 4, a one-point game the visitors wound up on the wrong side of.