Pádraic Joyce challenges Shane Walsh to produce on biggest days

Joyce has challenged his talisman to reproduce this form when Galway hit Croke Park in four weeks’ time for an All-Ireland quarter-final

29 May 2022; Galway manager Padraic Joyce before the Connacht GAA Football Senior Championship Final match between Galway and Roscommon at Pearse Stadium in Galway. Photo by Sam Barnes/Sportsfile

That Galway’s was a collective effort greatly pleased Pádraic Joyce. To have become the first Galway team in 112 years to lose four Connacht finals in-a-row would have been “devastating” and so it delighted the manager that each player put their hand to the pump to ensure such a cruel fate was avoided.

All bar one of Joyce’s front eight found the target from play, while further back, the constant and piercing runs of Dylan McHugh and Cillian McDaid were at the root of so many of these Galway scores.