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Blues have arrived in Cork for their week-long pre-season tour.

The newly-assembled squad left Birmingham this morning and are now at the Fota Island resort for seven days of training.

On Tuesday Lee Clark’s men play Cork City in their only friendly of the tour and the remainder of their time will be spent getting to know their new team-mates ahead of the 2014/15 campaign.

Last week the team were put through their paces in split-session days at Wast Hills.

The fitness-based workouts helped dust off the cobwebs from a summer break and the players have admitted that they are already in good shape.

Blues have had a busy summer signing nine new players already and there’s certainly a fresh feel to the team.

Our chief sports writer Colin Tattum and myself (Gregg Evans) are with the team in Ireland and will be providing regular updates from the tour.