It's 10 weeks since Mayo last played a competitive inter-county match and skipper Keith Higgins admits the wait has been frustrating.

On Sunday, they commence their bid for a fifth Connacht SFC title in-a-row with a trip to Pearse Stadium to take on arch-rivals Galway.

"From a Galway point of view, they couldn't really take a huge amount from the New York game," the 30-year-old pointed out to The Irish Independent.

"That is not being disrespectful to New York but that is the reality of it.

"The Leitrim game is probably that only game that they could look back on, or we could look back on to see how they are setting up.

"At the same time we have had a lot of time to focus on ourselves because we couldn't really do anything else over the last ten weeks. It is crazy to be quite honest. When you have ten weeks between league and championship you would wonder what the point of it is.

"From a player's point of view, it would be a small bit frustrating, the whole fact of putting your life on hold, you do that anyway."

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