Sligo have enough to finish the job

A SLIGO collapse or a Galway revival? Those are the two theories competing to explain the remarkable turnaround in Pearse Stadium last Sunday afternoon, when a 1-8 to 0-2 interval advantage for Sligo morphed into a 1-10 apiece draw at the final whistle.

Ultimately, it was a little bit of both. Sligo retreated too much into a defensive shell in the second-half and could have benefited more from positioning Eamonn O’Hara around the middle as a spare man, rather than planting him just in front of his full-back line.

Galway’s performance was horribly out of sync in the opening half yet it surely cannot be as littered with faults again. Micheal Meehan’s return clearly gives their attack greater potency and Joe Bergin’s switch to midfield will hopefully help arrest the alarming dip in fortunes they endured there. There can be some credibility attached to the theory espoused by the Galway camp that the eight-week break of inactivity counted against them last Sunday and they should be sharper this week.