Holmes predicts a "huge, huge battle"

MAYO are expecting a "huge, huge, battle" when Limerick throw down the gauntlet to them in the Bank of Ireland All-Ireland SFC qualifier at Dr Hyde Park, Roscommon, today, team manager Pat Holmes said.

“A lot of people have been trying to pull the wool over our eyes by installing us as odds-on favourites to win, but we are realistic enough to know, particularly in view of their recent spate of outstanding triumphs, that Limerick pose a major threat,” Holmes said.

“We will not be lulled into any sense of false security. We would be extremely foolish to allow that to happen,” he said.