Staccato show leaves a question mark over Mayo

Mayo 3-15 Westmeath 1-14: Yet another All-Ireland quarter-final for Mayo, but this wasn’t business as usual.

This wasn’t the side that sauntered so serenely onto August’s plain the last five years. In its place on Saturday was a collection of individuals as uncertain on their feet as in their thinking, and it is hard to escape the sense that they are stumbling into a Tyrone haymaker next Saturday.

They won’t see it that way. They can’t.