‘We need to move into fifth gear on Sunday’

If the obsession with Kerry this summer is what middle gear they’ve been playing in, then the fascination with Mayo is the order of their substitutes.

Colm Boyle has been the county’s best defender in this year’s championship hence the fixation with why he was benched before the 55th minute against both Cork and Roscommon.

That predictability extends to a full-forward, be in Andy Moran, Conor Loftus or Evan Regan, as the second player to be replaced in five of Mayo’s seven SFC matches so far.