League form pays off for Padden

Billy Joe Padden, the son of 1980s legend Willie Joe, has made the Mayo starting line-up for Sunday's Connacht SFC semi-final against Roscommon at Hyde Park.

Padden, a midfield regular during the league campaign, will start at full-forward.

Manager John Maughan has kept faith with eight of the players who fell so dishearteningly to Kerry in the 2004 All-Ireland final.

The seven newcomers see Shane Fitzmaurice at midfield, David Clarke between the posts, Keith Higgins at corner back, wing backs Conor Moran and Gary Mullins, and Andy Moran and Stephen Carolan as wide forwards.

Trevor Mortimer, brother of peroxide corner forward Conor, is a surprise omission.

Roscommon manager Val Daly has made a number of changes from the team that limped past London for what is a repeat of last year's provincial final.

John Whyte returns at full back as a swap for the injured Conor Beirne, Sean McDermott takes over at left corner back from John Ryan.

John Rogers (left-half back) and Brian Higgins (midfield) have also been handed starts with influential forwards Franie Grehan and Stephen Lohan to fire the Ros attack.

Lohan replaces Nigal Dineen at full forward.

MAYO (SFC v Roscommon): David Clarke; Keith Higgins, David Heaney, Gary Ruane; Conor Moran, James Nallen, Gary Mullins; Ronan McGarrity, Shane Fitzmaurice; Andy Moran, Ciaran McDonald (capt), Alan Dillon; Conor Mortimer, Billy Joe Padden, Stephen Carolan.

ROSCOMMON (SFC v Mayo): Shane Curran; Brian McNella, John Whyte, Sean McDermott; Micheal Ryan, David Casey (capt), John Rogers; Seamus O’Neill, Brian Higgins; Karol Mannion, Francie Grehan, Enda Kenny; Gary Cox, Stephen Lohan, Ger Heneghan.