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Over the years most of Mayo's league campaigns in division one have required last round victories and even last ditch equalisers to keep the green and red in the top tier of football.

All roads lead towards Markievicz Park on Sunday for Mayo - as they start their return to life in Division One of the National Football League with a home game against Donegal in the neutral venue in Sligo.

The Mayo senior hurlers will be looking to pick up a win against Wicklow on Sunday that would be vital in ensuring the stay in Division 2A of the National Hurling League for next season.

Mayo's league success last term was unexpected but encouraging and most definitely came as an added bonus.

"The three games we won put us in a strong position, we were trying to change the fundamentals of how we played and we were going to stick with that regardless and we did," James Horan said last week when asked about the the middle eight portion of Mayo's league campaign that saw them have successive losses against Dublin and Galway.

All 16 runners and riders in this year's Mayo Senior Football Championship have been waiting for this weekend to arrive for a while now. Saturday will see a full slate of action taking place all over the county, with Ballintubber the defending champions the side to beat again this year.