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Published 10:21 21 Dec 2016 GMT
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It's too easy to come along and tell people to be tougher and to try and rile them into a reaction by exaggerating what you heard about them elsewhere. It's too easy to say to a team that they need to be more ruthless. You might as well just walk into a changing room and say, "win".
What was the tactic for solving that lack of edge? How did they go about it other than tell the players to be more aggressive?
It's definitely too easy to make these claims now when you're not involved. Telling players to stop complaining about how things are run and to just "be ruthless" is of little or no value.
Admittedly, it's a nice, gripping story that all of us follow, Mayo getting so close and falling at the final hurdle but, honestly, that hurdle has always been beyond their reach. It's not a mental thing, it's not as simple as that.
They can do it, of course they can - they can step up some day and catch a team on the hop. They would've done so against Dublin the first day out in 2016 if it wasn't for two own goals - that wasn't a lack of ruthlessness though, that was freak luck.
No-one would've beaten Donegal in 2012. No-one.
Kerry were the best team in Ireland in 2014.
Dublin, now, are probably the greatest squad of all time.
Mayo can win an All-Ireland but, to do so, they'll have to beat a better footballing team at a game of football. That's what has faced them so far - not some obscure idea of their mentality not being right. Their mentality is the same thing that has gotten them to the last four year after year after year after year after year after year.
Their mentality is what got rid of two managers because they wanted to give themselves a better shot at winning.
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