BREAKING: Padraic Joyce steps down as Galway manager

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1:04The newsroom on off the ball This is news talk Welcome back to tonight's off the ball the breaking news this evening as that porridge choice has left his role as goalway senior football manager Our gelly games correspondent is Tommy Rooney. Tommy. Did you see this one coming? Oh afternoon Did I see this one coming there's been murmurs and talk in The offseason the last maybe two years a few times maybe a couple of years around goalway and poor choices future And he's always stayed strong. He's been there seven years and I guess I Kind of just presume that it was similar again that there may not be white smoke But the news obviously broke just before seven o'clock that's poor choice had decided to step down and Just be clear that the word I'm getting is that it was poor choice's decision that he had weighed things up He had felt that after seven years in the job

2:07Das In terms of the energy that he had put into it in terms of what was needed Das the best thing for goalway football was to move on and get a get someone else The word that I'm getting from the county board is das That it was poor excision and that they they had worked with somebody who was given everything over the last seven years to debat him in the goalway football and Why they got very very close they just didn't get over the line John McIntyre has a piece in the connoctribune from a couple of weeks back about a player's meeting That all the players attended by Paul Conroy it just happened to not be there and even and Raymond Galligan who had been a part of the coaching team and Well, you might me say there shouldn't have been leaks coming out of that meeting Desentiment I got from it was that it was gonna be all systems go there were still two years to go and pour choices term the second term that he had entered into and That it the feelings even defeated the players that reflected on their own role and the defeat the management that reflected on their own role and the Defeat New York and quarterfinals this year and goalway were gonna move on from there

3:10But ultimately not this is a seismic change. It's gonna have a massive knock on impact in terms of what happens in 2027 and Yeah, it's gonna be interesting. It's sad to see poor choice gone because I think he's a great character in our game And I think in terms of being a legendary footballer, which he absolutely is I think in time will reflect on his bat and go away And look at the fact that he got them just so close and you have to be questions in terms of why didn't it over the line What big ever to write Rathleth? The last two exits Tommy are gonna be the ones that really sting like the day against Meath the day against Dublin back to back years They're they're too kind of stunning defeats in knockout all our own championship football and look Maybe that comes to the territory of like they've been to two all our and finals and we put them out of pedestal against the two teams that they were playing But it's hard not to get away from the fact that they were seismic defeats for this management tickets

4:10Massively so on master's on and both of those games They were in the perfect position with 10 15 minutes to go you can argue you know Eight points less call us paid a spade eight point leads under new rules aren't quite what they were before but They're in total control against Dublin this year after my hard goal and Dublin just mold them down laid on and their game management laid on and games had left them down and Just reading back on on that piece on the players meeting from the end of August You know, they were very South critical about how they've flattered to deceive and On the biggest assages and you know just last You know speaking of not our players meeting just last November myself patty and James and the football pod spent a couple of hours of poor choice in his home club of killer Aaron and we recorded a piece with him and poor ex spoke about first coming into the job back in 2019 and and He's got a set of masks that he wanted to win in all our little McCollough and he said he said those words because he knew wasn't going to be good enough to just knock

5:15Mayo off their Persian Connicks that's you know, Mayo were so far ahead of them at that time that I wasn't going to be good enough to just say Watch your goals here. All we're going to win a Connicks that for go away. I have to be more than that I'm by God in that Connick championship in 2020. They're always were opened later on October when Mayo ripped them a thunders But joy spoke to myself patty and James about The players meeting after that game and there was a huge change there for me But I'm on to later myself and John Con Cannon who's been with him the whole time got the players into the room We sat down with them and we said right lads. How do we fix this? Not the most players particularly Joyce's feelings some even suggested in that meeting back then that he should walk back in 2020 My pride and ego was harsh and you'd be thinking Jesus one of I've been coaching the last two years It's obviously being being wrong and I haven't helped the players But back then they changed things they brought in Bernardo done they brought in Keen on Il Dave Morris came on boards Dara Sheridan over the years has gotten involved with the team as well. They've transformed themselves over those seven years

6:19But ultimately and in that chat It's poor I got the time It really sought out how much they've been haunted by that all our defeat in 2024 Taremah that was the chance that was the opportunity you know Yeah as much as the the carry game was a shootout and a lot hinge done Maybe a late-free to didn't go go as we're in tiff or put over the bear I think ultimately this year will be defined by that one point defeat Taremah This is this can be a straight-up no in responsive question But do you have anybody in mind who who might be next in line bearing a mind this news came out at five to seven this evening So I'm not yeah, you do I don't oh no I don't have any one tough ahead But my my sense is that They may look outside the county, you know and we're not looking at losing another afterball Ponded and Stephen Ratchard here are we Tommy back to back years column boy who after Mayo Ratch for an after-golly Just say it and so I wouldn't put a pin in it on and former afterball presenters You look at Andy Moran who's gone on and inspired Mayo and year one to win in all Ireland

7:19There you go. We've a good track record. So there's a very good chance of that as long as their background team doesn't contain Paryandras or James Donohoo I think I'm sorry I was thinking that hey, oh, I'm about to I've already been dropped once this year I'm about to get dropped again from missing a team meeting in Krakow But I will just say one thing I will I will just say one thing I will say one thing back in 1997 Mayo had just come off the back of two back-to-back all Ireland defeats and 96 and 97 They felt like the big dogs at the time and conducts they felt like they were the ones that were on the precipice of winning on all Ireland And poor joys as a player was as a kid was part of the team the John O'Mahoney come in and go away one that all Ireland pretty much from nowhere And we all know it from a year to the sun then how glorious that team was I do wonder whether Mayo coming in and doing that is at the inverse effect now and go And then look over the road and see just they know how close they've been and Joyce knows how close to been the players know of close to been But they're flatter to the sea if they're style of play You know as has been frustrating given the talent that they have and

8:23Maybe poor joys just reflected and and thoughts I brought them as far as I can and I don't have the energy to go again Because don't don't dismiss seven years. No at the top of leading your county for seven years It is it is I know from speaking to these people and interviewing them and looking at how intense it is It is a massive and my advantage is required to get over the line and I think in time they reflect and joys as time as Been with so many positives in it, but they just couldn't get there. Tommy get into us. The players meeting There might be reports out of that one as well after tonight. Tommy. Thank you Take care, lads. Bye-bye The off the ball rugby roachow is coming to your province Join some of the biggest stars from lense stir monster ulster and connoct as we travel around the country to preview the 2026 27 rugby season. Don't miss your chance to be there get your tickets now at off the ball calm forward slash events The newsroom is brought to you by a viagra connect 50 milligram film coated tablets contains still then a film for adult men with erectile dysfunction maximum doses 150 milligrams

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