​Cardiff City continue their pre-season campaign at Cork City on Tuesday (19:45 BST) with boss Brian Barry-Murphy acknowledging they have a lot of work to do before competitive football returns next month.Barry-Murphy will lead Cardiff in his home city as the Bluebirds face a Cork side currently top of the League of Ireland First Division, the nation’s second tier.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementWhile it is still early in pre-season, Cardiff will hope for an encouraging evening at the Turner’s Cross Stadium having lost 6-0 to Danish side FC Midtjylland in their opening friendly on Saturday.Barry-Murphy’s team begin the new season with a Carabao Cup tie against Swindon on Saturday, 8 August before their Championship campaign starts with a home fixture against Wrexham nine days later.”Nobody is under any illusions about the amount of work we are going to need before we get anywhere near the season,” Barry-Murphy said.”But that’s very exciting for us because we feel as if we have a squad who can improve, and throughout the course of pre-season we hope to add to the squad and improve it.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisement”We are very clear on how much work we have to do and we are very willing to do it.”Barry-Murphy began his playing career with Cork in 1995 before moving to Preston North End four years later.Cork, who are managed by former Middlesbrough and Scotland midfielder Barry Robson, relinquished a nine-match winning run by losing 4-3 at home to Longford Town last Friday.