McGuinness: Club games harm chances

Without injured pair Karl Lacey and Neil Gallagher, Jim McGuinness is slightly snookered going into Sunday’s game against Down, but he claims his county board have made things more difficult for him.

He’s an opponent of the new club championship structure in Donegal, for one, and finds himself once again at loggerheads with officials about the volume of club games interfering with his preparations, the duo having sustained their knocks in recent fixtures.

“I think we are the only team in Ulster who are playing championship club football [right now].