About time Mayo found a way to win a big one

An old joke much beloved of science students from a past life of mine: If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the precipitate.

Or as an old saying back our way would have it — an rud a bhailíonn an cníopaire, scaipeann an rábaire. That, which the thrifty accumulate, the extravagant scatter.

When Pat Holmes and Noel Connelly took over Mayo in the uncertain environment post-James Horan, the biggest challenge they faced was finding the right blend of continuity and change. Given the accumulated wisdom of the previous four seasons, the last thing Mayo football, and the current group of players, needed was a period extravagance or scattering.