Conor Counihan will announce his team tonight for Sunday's All-Ireland football semi-final against Dublin, but admits that there could be changes to it before the throw-in.

The Cork manager is prepared to wait until the last minute to see if injury doubts Graham Canty and Ciaran Sheehan will be fit to play. There is also likely to be a number of changes from the starting line-up for the quarter-final victory over Roscommon.

Team captain Canty and attacker Sheehan have been battling hamstring and knee injuries respectively since the Roscommon game and while the Eire Óg man has responded well to treatment for a cartilage problem, Canty's prospects are less favourable.

"The reality of the situation is that we're picking a team now but that may not be the team that starts because of injuries," Counihan said.

"We just don't know yet with the two lads. They could need the time between now and the weekend to get right. We hope that a clearer picture will emerge closer to the game."

He added: "The biggest factor for us this year has been injuries. You just didn't know who you had and when you had them.

"It would be a great headache to have everyone fit for Sunday. It would present us with a problem but it's a problem we'd love. Some guysare capable of playing 30 minutes, not 70 - do you start them, do you bring them in?"

Long-serving stars Nicholas Murphy and John Miskella are pushing hard for a starting places after recovering from injury problems, while dual star Eoin Cadogan could start in defence, even if Canty is passed fit.

Counihan said: "You get 70 minutes on the day to get it right and we haven't played as well or as attractively as last year, but perhaps some teams have set themselves up to stop that in a way.

"Defensively we are conceding less than we were last year and I'd say we've had patches in all the games where we did play well. The issue for us is that we didn't sustain it over a longer period of time." Tweet

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