Kevin Walsh wounded over injury time

Galway manager Kevin Walsh expressed frustration at the amount of injury time played at the end of the second-half, calling on GAA top brass to consider using a stop-clock.

Referee Pádraig Hughes awarded four minutes of stoppages, but called for full-time shy of the 74th minute. Adding to Walsh’s annoyance was that little or no football was played during injury-time, an injury to Aidan O’Shea and the brawl that led to Lee Keegan’s sending-off holding up the action.

“It’s a pity there wasn’t a few more minutes maybe at the end to test out the character of this side. Four minutes was rightly called, but I’m not so sure there was even 40 seconds of that played.