Horan not drawn on future after 'raggle-taggle' season

James Horan wouldn't be drawn on his Mayo future after his fourth season in charge ended with an eight point loss to Kerry at GAA HQ.

Demolished by Jack O'Connor's side in April's league final, Mayo were rather more resilient in Sunday evening's quarter-final but were still put away in the end with a dispiriting degree of comfort.

For Horan, it's the end of his fourth season in charge, the official end of his second term which, as with the first, yielded a pair of All-Ireland final defeats.

Speaking to reporters after, the Mayo boss reflected on a "raggle-taggle" season but refrained from making any promises about his future.

"There is no real looking forward now, we just had a chat in there, it's never a time to make rash promises or decisions or statements after the end of a season like that, so everybody will take a bit of time.

"Yeah, look it, it has been a tough year. I was just saying out there that if you were designing a year, it would be the absolute inverse of what we had, from no pitches to play leagues into no training pitches to no trainings, we had to cancel trainings, the amount of injuries, it was one of those raggle-taggle kind of seasons but to the credit of the players they kept going and kept battling.

"We were down a lot of games and it would be very easy just for you to call it a night but didn’t, kept going, so huge credit to the lads involved."

Mayo's 2022 campaign was hampered from early by the loss of forward power in the shape of Tommy Conroy and Ryan O'Donoghue, their stuttering performance in front of goal continuing today.

"I think we got four from 16 shots in the second half. I think we'd piles of attacks today, we'd an awful lot of attacks, we just didn't get the return from the possession that we