Eoin Sheahan

And

maybe for Donegal they had that high after hammering Kerry in the National League final at the start of the month or at the end of March and maybe it's hard to get back up again for that second game afterwards and that motivation piece is a fascinating one there's now a real collection of teams who've had brilliant National League final performances

and have fallen flat on their face in the province.

So Mayo have been guilty of this.

Last time they won the National League, they would have been beaten by Roscommon in their first day out in Connacht.

Derry famously two years ago had that big win against Dublin in the National League final, were hockeyed by Donegal in the first round of the Ulster Championship.

And something similar has just happened to Donegal here as well.

I think that's a big part, their motivation in terms of getting up for that league final as much as Down's motivation of being written off was.

Yeah, the magnitude to which Mayo were beaten was a big shock.

Like Mayo and Castle Bar, it's actually a strange enough relationship they have with the ground.

Like, for example, if you take their...

rivalry with Galway, the away team tends to win that matchup at the moment.

But when it comes to Roscommon, you'd expect Roscommon to come to Michaela Park and for Mayo to get the job done against them, particularly because they were the better team in the first half.

Colby McDonald, the man we keep talking about, was brilliant in that first half.

Even in the second half, he has this brilliant score where he dummy solos twice in the one move before this brilliant outside of the right boot effort that goes between the sticks.

But

The best forward on the pitch yesterday was Diarmuid Murtagh and he's arguably one of the best forwards in Ireland at the moment.

His goal in the first half was just a key moment that kept Roscommon in touch and nobody could have seen the second half coming where they just blew Mayo out of the water and Murtagh just really had the run of the place.

He scored 1-10.

Off 11 shots.