Jerome Stack still seeking improvements as Brigid's eye final

Four points to the good at the break, St Brigid's manager Jerome Stack admits that he was a happy man heading into the second half of this afternoon’s AIB Club semi-final against Castlehaven.

The Roscommon outfit would hold on for an impressive victory, beating the County Cork side 1-11 to 0-10 at FBD Semple Stadium, to progress to the All-Ireland final.

Derry side Glen will be their opposition in the final in two weeks’ time, and Stack admits that improvements will be needed if they are to be considered serious challengers to secure the title.

Glen accounted for reigning champions Kilmacud Crokes from Dublin in Sunday’s second semi-final and the Oak Leaf men will be looking to go one step better, having lost the final 12 months ago - again to Kilmacud.

But St Brigid’s manager Stack is looking forward to the prospect of taking his side to All-Ireland glory, while well aware that his side need to step up another level in the decider.

Stack was not too happy with his side’s second-half showing and will look to learn from their mistakes to be at the optimum level against the impressive Glen outfit.

"To be fair, we were quite happy at half-time," said Stack, speaking to RTÉ Sport after the game.

"In the second half, we lost a bit of momentum as there were one or two times early in the second half when we could have got scores.

"And to be fair to Castlehaven they went right at it, pushed on everything and they got change from it. So that is something that we have to look at, forewarned maybe.

"I’d be disappointed with our second half and there are things we need to work at, but we did the right thing at the end and got our scores. And we know that we have real improvement needed to be serious challengers the next day."

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