Galway manager Kevin Walsh was delighted to avenge last year's Connacht SFC final defeat to Roscommon.

The Tribesmen produced a dominant second half performance at Dr Hyde Park to lift the JJ Nestor Cup for a record-equalling 46th time and become the first team to progress to the Super 8s, which guarantees them at least three more games this summer.

"Today was about today. It was important, particularly after last year," Walsh told the Irish Daily Mirror.

"I won't go behind the curtain on that - but we really felt that we just didn't perform last year. I know Roscommon were very good but a nine-point defeat isn't where this team are at. So it was important here to show who we are.

"If we were beaten by a better team on the day, so be it. But now we're the first team to make it to the Super 8s so maybe it's a bit of legacy in itself.

"At the same time, we're still young, we're still trying to learn from all these teams. We're into the Super 8s now and we'll have a few weeks' break, which is nice - back to club football at the weekend.

"These lads just want to get better. We had a bad first half but we got better on the second half and we'll assess that better on Tuesday night."

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