James Horan refused to be drawn on his future as Mayo manager after yesterday's All-Ireland SFC quarter-final exit at the hands of Kerry.

The 0-13 to 1-18 defeat brought the curtain down on Horan's fourth year of his second tenure at the helm. His previous term ended after four years in 2014.

He told RTÉ: "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.

"Everyone will take time to reflect, for sure.

"It has been a tough year. 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."

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