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Mayo displaced the challenge of Sligo with ease last Saturday on the road - and with Leitrim now coming up in the Connacht Senior Football Championship semi-final next weekend, the focus of Mayo manger James Horan has been firmly fixed on that game.

Mayo got their 2021 championship off to a flying start after a facile 3-23 to 0-12 victory over a very disappointing, out of sorts and dispirited Sligo outfit in the Connacht quarter final.

An important WNL encounter is scheduled for Eamonn Deacy Park on Saturday afternoon when Galway WFC host DLR Waves (2pm).

“Looking at the 15 there may be eight, nine, 10 players either making their debut or their second Championship game for Galway, nobody realises that, but that could be the situation next week,” selector John Concannon says about the emergence of talent Corribside.

Tomorrow afternoon will see Mayo's championship season throw in when they travel to Markievicz Park to take on Sligo, and it will be a different looking Mayo side going into championship action than the one we are used to seeing over the past decade.

The league is only over and in the blink of an eye, the championship is upon us.

All roads lead north for Mayo on Saturday for their Connacht Senior Football Championship opener against Sligo in Markievicz Park which throws in at 4.30pm.

The Galway Tribesmen opened their 2021 campaign with a visit from old rivals Dublin City Exiles.

After the disappointing defeat to Monaghan and subsequent relegation, there are three main areas on which the team and management must focus to have a chance of a successful 2021 championship.