Mayo make two changes for visit of Kerry
Mayo’s Aidan O'Shea (pictured) and Jack Coyne comes back into the starting lineup for their league match against Kerry. Picture: INPHO/James Crombie
Mayo senior football manager Kevin McStay has made two changes from the team that started against Armagh last week for this weekend's Round 5 of the Allianz National Football League with Kerry in Hastings Insurance MacHale Park tomorrow (Saturday) at 3pm.
The two changes to the Mayo team sees Jack Coyne replace Eoin O'Donoghue at right corner back and Aidan O'Shea comes in for Conor Reid at corner forward. Stephen Coen will captain the team on the day.
Mayo and Kerry have met on 54 occasions in League action, with the Kingdom being the county Mayo have met most often in League fare. Mayo and Kerry first met in the League 1928, when the Kingdom won a semi-final meeting between the counties on a 0-6 to 0-4 score-line, in a game that was played in Castlebar. The Munstermen hold an overall advantage, 27 wins to 23, with four games drawn. Three of those games have been League finals, with Kerry coming out on top in 1971 and 1972, and Mayo winning the most recent final meeting in 2019.
Since the turn of the century Mayo has had the upper-hand in League meetings between the two counties. Of the 22 meetings between the counties since 2000, Mayo has 12 wins, to the Kingdom’s 9, with the 2012 meeting in Tralee finishing all square.
11 different venues have hosted League meetings between the counties. Tralee with 16 meetings and Castlebar with 15 have been the most popular, while there were seven meetings in Croke Park in the latter stages of the competition, including three final meetings. Other venues used have been Ballina (four), Killarney (three), Crossmolina and Salthill (both two), and Thurles, Limerick, Listowel and Ennis with one meeting each.
Sean Hurson from Tyrone has been announced as the referee for the game on Saturday.
There will be live commentary on Midwest Radio with Michael D McAndrew and Colm Boyle. The game this weekend will not be shown on TV.
Mayo GAA will have live updates across all social media channels on Saturday.
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