Liam Rushe insists Dublin's hurlers are in no hurry to find their best form.

Even though the Dubs are set to face Cork in a league semi-final on Sunday week, full forward Rushe points out that the championship is their priority this year and that the 2011 winners are not going all out to capture a fourth national hurling league crown:

"A few years ago we were looking for confidence, and confidence comes from winning," he notes in The Irish Independent. "Dublin hadn't won a major trophy in years so we definitely did target the league - and there is a marked difference now.

"We had that difference under [Anthony] Daly in the last couple of years too so there wasn't as big an emphasis on league, we shook off losses if they occurred.

"Sometimes new managers come in and you're looking to build confidence and there's a massive emphasis on the league, but the way Ger [Cunningham] went about it, there's been four or five or six changes every game and we're more looking to test out everybody and bring in a style of play rather than win every day.

"Someone already asked me are we out for revenge [against Cork, who thumped the Metropolitans in the group stage of the league]. We really don't put too much on league games, we had a bad day and obviously we'll look to do better.

"We did against Galway and Limerick and we'll look to give a better showing against Cork - but we might save that for championship."

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