Lee Keegan: Durcan loss significant blow to Mayo's chances of Championship run

Lee Keegan believes that Mayo’s hopes of reaching the latter stages of the Championship have significantly regressed on the back of Paddy Durcan’s injury.

While there always seemed to be a level of optimism that the team could bounce back amid a string of All-Ireland final defeats when Keegan was in his pomp, it isn’t quite apparent now. “The game for them was the Galway Connacht final and that took a real hammer blow to a lot of people because I don’t know if people had the same belief that the All-Ireland is there at the moment.

“Well it’s a significantly lesser now because of Paddy and his influence,” Keegan admitted. “There’s a couple of reasons. “And the way the game ended against Galway in the Connacht final, our six defenders there, you kind of looked around and without Paddy they looked a little bit leaderless to an extent. Paddy is their captain, he’s the guy who makes things happen.”

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