Division One football holds no fears for Roscommon defender Neil Collins.

Speaking ahead of Sunday's Division Two decider against Down, the corner-back insists the primrose and blues will be able to hold their own in the top flight in 2016.

"Every team wants to progress and get to a higher standard so it was our ambition to get promoted to Division 1," he told The Irish Independent.

"We can compete at that level, but that's if we put in a lot of work between now and then, and that's if we go there with real belief.

"We obviously understand that it's a higher level and the teams there have been consistently there so we have a lot of work to do to compete. But definitely it's something that we wanted to do.

"As you go through the League you're not thinking, 'We really want to get promoted', you're looking at each game and saying, 'We need to perform in each game'.

"Then it comes to a stage towards the end of the League, if you have performed in those games then you're you say, 'We're in a position to get promoted'."

Away from the field of play, the Castlerea clubman is busy trying to get his own fashion label 'Cryptic Clique' off the ground.

"I've always been interested in music and style," he explained. "They've always been something I've been interested in outside of sport. The two of them are quite closely connected.

"I thought it was a hobby but it's something now I want to pursue as a career."

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