O'Shea and Mayo starting from scratch
April 13, 2016
Aidan O'Shea and the Mayo team make their way out at Dr Hyde Park.
©INPHO/Donall Farmer.
With the league done and dusted, Aidan O'Shea says the work starts now for Mayo.
The Connacht champions won't recall their 2016 Division 1 campaign with any great fondness but O'Shea is looking forward rather than backwards.
"It was funny this year, a bigger score in the last game (against Down) - which would have been quite possible, if I'd scored my goal, and Alan Freeman scored before half time - and we could have been in the semi-finals after a very sluggish campaign," he pointed out to The Irish Independent.
"But we used 35 players in the league, which would have been unheard of for us the last few years. And boys coming back late, Cillian (O'Connor) back late, Keith (Higgins) gone for most of the league, and with that other boys got a run and a chance.
"We had a scattered league with different things going on, players' injuries, coaches etc... so I definitely think this period of time is key for this group in 2016.
"A lot of work has to be done but it all starts now. And maybe it's a blessing to have these six or seven weeks to build up to it."
