Seamus Plunkett admits Laois have improving to do if they're to qualify from the round robin series of the Leinster SHC.

The O'Moore's need to beat high-flying Westmeath in their last outing in the series on Sunday week to have any chance of progressing to the quarter-finals, and their manager insists a repeat of yesterday's performance against Carlow won't be good enough.

"I would be a little bit disappointed in the sense that halfway through the second half we tagged on a number of points and probably should have pushed on at that stage - we didn't," 'Cheddar' told RTE after the three-point win.

"We were in the same situation last week against Antrim, three up, and we simply didn't defend well enough at all. We defended strong enough today. We were well organised at the back in that sense. We were dominant in the middle third in terms of a platform to push us on.

"Certainly that performance wouldn't be good enough to take on Westmeath and we have to beat Westmeath. We've a lot of work to do.

"We're under no illusion. I'm also under no illusion about Sunday week against Westmeath. They hammered Antrim today. We've a lot of work to do in the next two weeks and we just need to get ourselves ready for that.

"It's knock-out championship for us. We have to win to stay in the Leinster championship."

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