Stephen Rochford refused to use injuries to Cillian O'Connor and Lee Keegan as an excuse for Mayo's dismal performance against Tyrone.

The pair were forced to retire in the first half of the 0-8 to 2-14 defeat in Castlebar with hamstring and shoulder injuries respectively, while Colm Boyle and Andy Moran also failed to finish the game after being sent off (Moran received a black card).

"We were extremely disappointing from the get go. We never got to the pitch of the game. Tyrone did all the running, we seemed to be stuck to the ground and that's the way it played out," the Mayo manager is quoted as saying in the Irish Examiner.

"Not a lot went well and everything then becomes an issue as to why we didn't play well. Our ball handling was terrible. I think we had 14 turnovers in the first 20 minutes. A stark contrast to the slickness in which we were playing last week and we'll look at what preparation we did this week but we only did a session on Wednesday and a light session on Friday so we certainly weren't tired but we never got out of first gear."

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