Mayo to put down a marker

It’s likely Conor Mortimer’s departure from the Mayo panel this past week will have an impact, be it good or bad, on the team tomorrow afternoon.

Mortimer has several friends in the panel and he is understood to be one of a number of players frustrated with James Horan’s youth policy. The fact remains that same policy has served Horan reasonably well these past 12 months or so and he won’t be sacrificing it all now.

Competition for places in the Mayo forward line increased this year and has been the one area where outside of custodians Alan Dillon, Andy Moran and Kevin McLoughlin there has been a lot of personnel fluctuation.