Padraic Joyce says winning the Sam Maguire remains the objective for Galway after their bid for a five-in-a-row of Connacht SFC titles was ended by Roscommon.

The Galway manager was looking at the bigger picture after his side succumbed to a late Roscommon comeback at 'The Hyde', with the attention now turning to an All-Ireland SFC Round 1 meeting with Kildare at Pearse Stadium on the weekend after next.

"I don't have much to do to motivate our lads," he told RTÉ.

"We know the longer-term picture in Galway was to win the All-Ireland. So, we're still in the hunt to do that.

"We have to regroup now and pull ourselves together and see where we can tweak a few things. Get a little bit sharper up top and we'll go from there. We'll get over it and prepare for Kildare in two weeks."

Joyce admitted that it was disappointing to lose after Damien Comer's goal handed the Tribesmen a six-point lead with nine minutes to go.

"In years gone by, we would have seen that out but we didn't today. Fair play to Roscommon, they stuck at it. It was a brilliant game of football, I felt overall.

"Normally 2-22 would win most games for you, but in the current rules, no, it wasn't enough."

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