Liam Rushe says Dublin won't repeat the mistakes they made against Limerick in 2009.

Two years ago, Anthony Daly's young side allowed the Treaty County to come back and beat them in an All-Ireland quarter-final at Semple Stadium. Rushe hopes the Dubs can put that chastening experience to good use when the sides meet again on the same stage this Sunday:

"I would like to see how many starters we have from that day now. Probably only five or six from that team. It's been a massive turnaround.

"I didn't realise then how young we were. I was just gone 19. The same with Peter Kelly and Gougher [Oisín Gough] and people like that.

"We're two years older and we had the experience of last year so hopefully, we won't make the same mistakes of two years ago.

"We just didn't kick on. We let them back into the game. We were up by six points early in the game. We just let them claw us back. When you get a lead, you have got to hold it.

"Like Kilkenny did to us the other week. They got a lead and they kept us at arm's length. You have really got to attack a lead at this level. If you don't and they claw their way back in, they have got the momentum all of a sudden. You have just got to put matches to bed.

"We just started going for goals and doing stupid things. We started launching balls into a two-man full-forward line when they had Stephen Lucey floating around in front of them. We didn't play the match properly. It's just that bit of inexperience.

"It will be a huge challenge. They had a comprehensive win over Antrim. They did a lot better against them than we did last year.

"They're organised and that's half the battle. As well as that, they play a different sort of hurling this year and that's something that we won't have come across this season. But we look forward to these challenges." Tweet

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