TAKING STOCK: What have we learned from Mayo's League campaign?

Our columnist, Ger Flanagan, offered his thoughts after the Division One meeting

Mayo and Roscommon clashed in Round Seven of the National Football League Division One in MacHale Park, Castlebar. Pic: Sportsfile

IT'S hard to say for sure what Mayo wanted from Sunday, and whether a league final was something they'd have rather avoided. 

Most guesses would say yes, but they were honest to the end at least and put in a really impressive display.

You can say with certainty, however that Roscommon had no intentions of getting to a league final, because their performance was absolutely dismal. 

They barely laid a hand on Mayo all day, who strolled around MacHale Park like they were having a light training session. 

In turn, the atmosphere reflected that only of a challenge match

Both teams experimented and used the game as a way of getting much-needed minutes into players who needed. It felt like a dead rubber, such was the effort, or lack of, from Roscommon. 

Andy Moran won’t have learned much from it, and you’d be wasting time analysing it too, so other than highlighting Mayo scoring 4-26 with 14 different scorers you could well and truly strike it out.

This columnist was scrolling the always interesting comment section of Mayo GAA Blog last night to get a feeling of the mood as the curtain came down on the 2026 National League. 

And a comment from a poster named Mayo1992 summed it up: "We're not as bad as our worst match (Kerry) and we're not as great as our best match (today)." 

The fallout from that........

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