{"id":523229,"date":"2026-06-28T22:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T22:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/523229\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T22:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T22:13:09","slug":"galway-manager-padraic-joyce-there-was-some-decisions-that-i-found-baffling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/523229\/","title":{"rendered":"Galway manager P\u00e1draic Joyce: &#8216;There was some decisions that I found baffling&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beaten Galway manager P\u00e1draic Joyce has described as \u201cbaffling\u201d some of the second-half calls by referee David Gough, most especially his refusal to  <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/sport\/gaa\/arid-41870577.html\">award Galway a 64th minute penalty.<\/a>\n        <\/p>\n<p>The sides were level at 1-20 apiece when Rob Finnerty was fouled outside the 40-metre arc. Advantage was played by Gough, with Shane Walsh\u2019s subsequent orange flag effort hitting the post. John Maher reacted quickest to claim the breaking possession before being challenged, illegally so in the view of Joyce, by Theo Clancy and Ciar\u00e1n Kilkenny.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">But instead of awarding a Galway penalty, Gough brought play back out for the initial two-point free, which the Tribesmen eventually mined a white flag from after Walsh\u2019s placed-ball kick came back off the post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It was to prove their sole score following the 53rd minute goal that shoved them 1-20 to 0-17 in front.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cI don\u2019t know did Dublin find another gear, I think they were helped find another gear along the way with some poor decisions that was given out there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cWe were six up, we had Shane [Walsh] running through on goal, he gets dragged to the ground by three lads, and no free given,\u201d Joyce said of a 58th minute turnover that ended with a Paddy Small point and Dublin closing to within four.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cWe then come back and we have an advantage on a two-pointer that John Maher catches inside the big square. He is clearly pulled to the ground from what I can see, and the [penalty] is not given because the referee told the linesman that it wasn\u2019t a foul, so go back to the two-point free.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cYeah, so not taking away from what Dublin did at the end there. We can put a bit of blame on ourselves to score only once when we were six up and then lose by four.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cBut definitely there was some decisions there that I found baffling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">While Joyce said he \u201ccan\u2019t argue too much\u201d with the game-changing black-card penalty given against Galway, albeit he did claim they had a covering defender in behind the guilty Liam Silke, he did return to the Galway penalty not given later in his post-match interview.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">His insistence was that Maher was pulled to the ground.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cI would take issue with the one John Maher didn\u2019t get. That\u2019s a frustrating one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Refereeing calls and non-calls aside, Joyce knew the finger could also be pointed at his own crew.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cWe have to own the defeat, which I\u2019ll do and the players will do. There was a lot of stuff in the game that didn\u2019t go right for us. We didn\u2019t get our hands on enough ball from kickouts. Everyone knows that. But we had chances, as well. We had a few bad wides. Our efficiency overall was quite good.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cWe just didn\u2019t see the game out. Went six up, should have pushed on more and got scores. Didn\u2019t do it and paid the ultimate price for it.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beaten Galway manager P\u00e1draic Joyce has described as \u201cbaffling\u201d some of the second-half calls by referee David Gough,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[177329,30883,2179,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-523229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-championship-2026","tag-galway-gaa","tag-dublin-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}