Dara Ó Cinnéide: Tyrone must bring something new to trouble Donegal

Even though he’s been around the block and on the sidelines for three of the last four years with Donegal, manager Rory Gallagher will be giddy with anticipation ahead of this game, writes Dara Ó Cinnéide.

Of all the discussions that I have heard since last September’s All-Ireland final, surprisingly very few have mentioned Patrick McBrearty.

In the debates about the quality of the football, about Kerry’s supposed mirroring of Donegal’s play, about the apparent lethargy of the Donegal team when chasing a three-point margin and about how Donegal were so programmed to play a particular way that they forgot to improvise, not a whole lot was said about McBrearty.