Corofin manager Stephen Rochford isn't taking Balintubber for granted in this weekend's Connacht senior club football final.

"At certain times in certain matches we've had a purple patch here and there but if you look deeper we went 26 minutes without scoring one day and scored only six points in the first half of the [Galway] semi-final," the Mayo man notes in The Western People.

"We know that in order to beat Ballintubber we need to develop a 60-minute game and that's something we're going to be quite eager to work on.

"Ballintubber have beaten the All-Ireland finalists of 2014, the All-Ireland champions of 2013 and they've beaten a club team of the standard that I know Knockmore are.

"In that time, they've racked up 14 goals so we're under no illusion that if we're not 100% prepared and focussed to meet the challenge, we'll be coming out second best."

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