The era of New Mayo

Speaking on Newstalk on Wednesday, David Brady hit the nail on the head when he disassociated Mayo’s 2014 semi-final replay loss to Kerry from the 2006 All-Ireland final defeat.

“I didn’t go out with the intention of coming home the way we did,” he said of that 13-point humbling. “We were mortified. The one thing I do like is that I don’t associate this Mayo team with what went on in them years.”

Unfortunately, the former midfielder wasn’t pressed for more on his assertion but the dots could be joined: this group are better than what has ever been there before in Mayo. They’ve died better, recovered better, won better.