Brennan: There are parts of our game we wouldn’t be content with

St Vincent’s captain, Ger Brennan, is looking for his team to deliver a more sustained display as they begin their preparations for their AIB Leinster Club SFC semi-final against Westmeath’s Garrycastle in Parnell Park on Sunday week.

The Marino side got off to a flyer last Sunday in their victory over Portlaoise to open up a 1-2 to 0-0 lead inside the opening four minutes.

It was an advantage they should have strengthened during their period of early dominance but failed to capitalise fully and led by just the minimum at half-time.

“We are trying to play for 60, 70 minutes the whole time and that’s something we need to go away and work on,” says Ger.

“Despite winning we are still switching off for large parts of the game, most notably today the latter part of the first half.

“We were standing off the Portlaoise players and, in fairness to them, they grew in confidence and put some nice balls into their forwards and their forwards are very accurate with their finishes too.

“I guess we were a bit annoyed with ourselves when we came in at half-time.

“Look, we won but there are parts of our game we wouldn’t be content with,” adds Ger.

“Particularly in the first half, all those goals chance we missed and stepping off the Portlaoise forwards and midfielders and giving them opportunities for goals themselves so we were lucky.”