There were lots of positives in display against Longford: Bernard Brogan

Thu, 4th June 2015

Bernard Brogan says Dublin will take plenty of positives from last Sunday's Leinster SFC quarter-final victory over Longford - primarily the fact that Jim Gavin's men plays as a team and did not loose their focus throughout the 70 plus minutes.

The Dubs will face the winners of this Saturday's Kildare v Laois contest in the provincial semi-final and know that will represent a step up in class.

Bernard himself, was man of the match in many viewers eyes and scored an impressive 1-6 from play.

“I wanted to get out there and prove to myself that the body was still right and I still had a lot to offer.

“There are 15 other lads there and you know yourself the competition we have with lads coming off the bench like Michael Darragh Macauley, Paddy Andrews, Alan (Brogan). The competition for places is going to be ripe again.

“People say ‘you won by 20 points, it’s a waste of time’ ... I wouldn’t think that. When I go out there we have to prove to the management that we are due our place and if Jim (Gavin) doesn’t see us going hard for the full 70 minutes, he’s going to take us off and someone else is going to go in there.

“You can be complacent about games like that, you can go through the motions, try and kick balls from 40 yards - but we didn’t do that. That’s a positive ... we went hard for the 70 minutes.

Lads came in, no one rested on their laurels, no one went off on solo runs; we had a system and we stuck to it. We were meant to win and we did, but there are a lot of positives to take out of it.”