Pawrig Joyce absolutely livid over the dodgy free.
"To me, the most important and crucial part of the game is how they got a free when the game was 16 points apiece. I couldn’t get over it."
For Joyce, there is no doubt the free represented a huge swing in momentum.
"Those frees are like tap-overs for the likes of Clifford. It was a two-point swing for us, we had the momentum at that stage."
Asked for his assessment of the incident, the Galway boss was blunt, first asserting that Damien Comer should have been given a free following his turnover in the lead-up.
"My view of it was that Kerry were attacking, Damien Comer won the ball back, went down to gather the ball and he was pushed on the ground - in the back. To me, that was a free out. So, that was the first one missed.
"It came back to John Daly. He tried to go around his man, Killian Spillane tried to tackle him, his hand went up. The reason John put his hand up was to stop the Kerry fella's hand going around his neck, which is what happened. That was my view from the sideline.
"But you are up on the seventh floor, what did you think of it?"
Cue some hesitant murmuring from the reporters about it being a "soft free".
"A soft free, was it even a free?" replied Joyce swiftly, somewhat dissatisfied with the reply.
"We tried to get the game to where it went down the stretch, where it was level, but again that decision that was made at 16 points apiece was baffling. Key turning point in the game."
