Lee Keegan believes Mayo have a better chance of beating Galway in Salthill than in Castlebar.

That’s why he’s relieved Sunday’s Connacht SFC final is in Pearse Stadium rather than in Hastings Insurance MacHale Park.

“There's one very good omen for Mayo this week in that the game is not in MacHale Park. It's obviously one of the longstanding oddities of the Connacht championship, the inability of any team to win their home games, and the stats fairly jump out at you,” the former Footballer of the Year wrote in his latest column for RTÉ.

“I don't have any theories on the matter and personally can't make head nor tail of it. We used to discuss it in team meetings and whatnot. Occasionally, it'd be said that we needed to make Castlebar a fortress. I used to joke that for us, it was more of a bouncy castle than a fortress.

“Who knows? The provincial finals may be extinct in a couple of years - or if not extinct, then shunted off Broadway into early spring.”

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