Stick or twist: The conundrum facing Rochford and Fitzmaurice

What is it with Mayo and their management? They continue to display an incredible propensity for making things as difficult as they can for themselves.

Last week, all the media wanted to talk about was the resurrection of Kieran Donaghy. It was as though he had come down from the cross to save Kerry and Gaelic football with his first-half display against Galway in the quarter-final.

He was good the same day, very good in fact, as I said the following Tuesday in these pages, but it wasn’t as though Kerry were going to live or die and by lamping high ball on top of Donaghy for the remainder of the year.