Éamonn Fitzmaurice: Have Donegal been asked the right questions? And has McGuinness more answers?

I’m anticipating really enjoying the Ulster final but there will be plenty who won’t.

Donegal manager Jim McGuinness, left, and Armagh manager Kieran McGeeney. Photo by Ramsey Cardy/Sportsfile

It is hard to imagine the Ulster final being a classic, in the usual sense of that word. I expect it to be tactical, physical, defensive and intense. And edgy. There is no love lost between these counties, groups of players or management. It will be a slow possession-based game at times when both teams will have everyone defending and there will be bursts of action, usually after turnovers, leading to rapid counter-attacks, that will excite. 

I’m anticipating really enjoying it but there will be plenty who won’t. It will be a full house in Clones with neither team thinking of a tomorrow. It will be all out. I can’t wait to see if Jim McGuinness really is refitting Donegal to launch an assault on Sam Maguire, or if by his sheer force of will he is spooking everyone with a Potemkin village, capable of competing in Ulster but not much else.