Mayo manager Andy Moran said he wasn’t “too stressed” about the manner of their loss to Kerry last weekend and admitted it was probably better from a preparation perspective that his team missed out on a league final.
Moran made a host of changes from the team that was hammered in Tralee but his side were easy winners over a very experimental Roscommon team in Castlebar.
Jack Carney, Aidan O’Shea, Paul Towey and Ryan O’Donoghue all hit goals in a 21-point victory. While it was a relatively low-stakes encounter, it appeared late on that Mayo might end up in a league final after all, with Armagh and Kerry involved in a ding-dong tussle in the Athletic Grounds.
In the end, Kerry prevented Armagh from…