Cassidy: We’ll play Tyrone at own game

DONEGAL will attempt to beat Tyrone at their own game when the sides meet in the Ulster semi-final later this month.

Having played a more traditional ‘15 on 15’ and off the cuff style of football in recent times, the 1992 All-Ireland champions have now knuckled down under a more systematic and defensively sound system under Jim McGuinness in 2011.

The rewards have been obvious. Promotion to Division One of the league suggested a spring well spent and they have built on those foundations with comfortable championship victories against Antrim and Cavan. It isn’t an approach that has met with much acclaim but Donegal won little aside from admirers the last decade or so despite a stable full of talented players and a freewheeling approach to big championship occasions.