Mayo bank on getting it right

John O’Mahony’s high-profile second coming was meant to be the final piece of the Sam Maguire jigsaw but it turned into a miserable period culminating in championship defeats to Sligo and Longford.

The board succumbed to calls for a strategic plan but it blew up in their faces when the independent body charged with planning the county’s future proved too radical for the executive’s liking.

But most alarming was the MacHale Park redevelopment placing the board on the brink of financial ruin when the world economy folded. It has left them open to criticism — and plenty has come.