Jim McGuinness and Donegal can utilise a powerful review tool: losing

'It’s not the same feeling you’d be getting if you were coming out of an Ulster championship defeat, because you’re still in the fight. We’ll take the learnings and take it from there'

Donegal manager Jim McGuinness. Pic: Nick Elliott, Inpho

For Jim McGuiness and Donegal, the match review has a different hue this week. If the old truism about defeats holds waters, it’ll be the most productive week they’ve had in 2024 as they set their sights on Clare and a final All-Ireland SFC group tie in a fortnight.

Suddenly things have gotten tight.