Relaxed Stephen Rochford unfazed by Mayo’s critics

Neither last weekend’s opening defeat to Monaghan, nor Pat Spillane’s dim view of Mayo in the wake of that result was going to upset Stephen Rochford.

Saturday’s rudderless first-half display was a more pressing matter to him. His team’s performance after the interval compensated for it just as it belied some of the points made by Spillane a week earlier, although hardly a motivation.

“I’ll be blunt and honest, I haven’t seen them or heard them,” he said of the Kerry legend’s remarks.