Joyce predicts Mayo will come to Galway with ‘all guns blazing’

Galway manager Pádraic Joyce talks to his players before the FBD League semi-final against Mayo at MacHale Park in January. Joyce, while no doubt buoyed by four wins from five, knows they will be put to the pin of their collar at Pearse Stadium by a Mayo side trying to stave off relegation from Division 1. Picture: Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile

Pádraic Joyce has enough experience of clashes between Galway and arch rivals Mayo to know form counts for little when they go into battle.