Mayo challenging stereotype and making history

Ahead of last Sunday’s league final on the always-entertaining GAA Hour podcast, Steven McDonnell and Colm Parkinson came from contrasting schools of thought when it came to predicting a winner.

Parkinson’s money was on Mayo, being a subscriber to what we might term the Recent History or Recent Evidence school of thinking. They had the greater collective experience, albeit infused by a welcome new wave of youthful talent, and had a very good recent record against Kerry, beating them down in Tralee only a fortnight earlier, as well as when the sides last met in the championship in Croke Park.