Cork's Donal Óg Cusack has warned his team-mates that they must rediscover their hunger if they are to come back strong for next season. The Rebels lost out to Kilkenny in the All-Ireland SHC semi-final earlier this month, but the Cork net-minder has rubbished suggestions of a feud between players and management in the camp. "As far as I know, nobody's made any announcements or decisions about retiring. The main thing if a guy is going back that he has the hunger for it, but that goes for everybody. There's no reason then why he can't go back. "Will I be back? The key is to make sure you have the hunger. If you don't...you see what happened to us against Kilkenny, and you're not doing anyone justice, or yourself justice, if you don't have that hunger. "You must have that hunger. Fellas talk about the summer, but the tough time is during the winter, and preparing for it, and I'm no different. Maybe I have to test myself this winter to see if I have that hunger." Cusack has said that McCarthy's future is up to the current Cork himself and that this year's failure to reach the All-Ireland final was on the players as much as nayone. "It's up to Gerald and he'll know what he wants to do himself," said Cusack. "Any manager coming into a setup that we had from 2003 to 2006, there are going to be issues as the new man has new ideas. "But when we got to the stage we got to against Kilkenny everybody was giving it their best shot. Gerald did everything he could to try give us every chance of winning but it just wasn't good enough." Tweet

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