Mayo missing an entire team for league start
January 26, 2016
Mayo's Darren McHale, Colm Boyle, Shane McHale and Brendan Harrison take to the field.
©INPHO/James Crombie.
New Mayo manager Stephen Rochford will be shorn of 15 players as the Connacht champions open their 2016 national football league programme.
Mayo travel to Cork to commence their Division One campaign on Sunday and they are missing their Castlebar contingent (including Barry Moran, Tom Cunniffe and Patrick Durcan) as well as Keith Higgins, Alan Dillon, Andy Moran, Seamus O'Shea, Chris Barrett and the O'Connor brothers, Diarmuid and Cillian.
With Hollymount-Carramore through to the All-Ireland intermediate club decider, Stephen and Darren Coen are also unavailable.
It's not an ideal backdrop to the beginning of Rochford's maiden league campaign at the helm and he has stated that top-flight survival is his goal this spring.
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