Lee Keegan has criticised Galway for their lacklustre display against his former Mayo team-mates last Sunday.

The Tribesmen were without Damien Comer and Sean Kelly, but their poor performance still surprised Keegan.

“You might say it's early days in the league and it won't count for too much in the grand scheme of things come summer time, but Galway shipped a couple of big losses to Mayo last year and should have been smarting. I can't understand how you could go out to play your biggest rivals in that fashion,” he wrote for RTÉ.

“Had Mayo put in a similar display, they would have been ridiculed within their own county.

“It's a massive year for manager Padraic Joyce. It's his fifth campaign and we're at the stage where nothing less than an All-Ireland victory would constitute a success.

“Arguably, they're running out of time. Mayo, as a group, were around challenging for All-Irelands for 10 years - we didn't get it done but we were in the shake-up. This Galway team are continually touted and yet they've been in only one All-Ireland final.”

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