Kevin McStay fancies his native Mayo to get the better of Galway on Sunday.

The former Mayo attacker and 2013 All-Ireland club winning St Brigid's boss believes James Horan's charges will just about edge out the Tribesmen as they open their Connacht SFC defence in Salthill, but points out that the hosts aren't going to roll over:

"Mayo to win by six or seven points, that's what everybody is saying," he notes in The Irish Examiner. "But of course, as I was saying to some of my Galway friends during the week, there isn't a hope of that happening because many's the time I went in playing Galway thinking we were three or four points better and got beaten by three or four points. I always see the Galway-Mayo game as nearly a toss-up and whoever is at home, then I give them the nod.

"Galway are at home but I think Mayo are a little bit ahead of them, but then the injuries bring it back a little bit more even. I was looking at a few numbers last night. The last six finals, and I know this isn't a final but it's the major game of the Connacht championship, there was only a point or two points in it.

"But Mayo are going for three-in-a-row and I think they'll latch onto that. It's a good number for them, they usually do well coming out of the province if they win it for a couple of years in a row, it's usually a springboard for them. I think they're in the driver's seat." Tweet

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