Replying To totalrecall:  "A joke ..... let's hammer Donegal and mcguinness we're not kilmacud crokes, so the rules apply to us however Mickey mouse they are. A bunch of over officious tanks in the ulster council, defenders of the faith....meanwhile banned manager's blatantly flaunt the ban by coaching club teams"

Replying To Al_Maguire:  "The Sat Indo said that for NFL we are

Round 1 - Home to Cork
Round 2- Away to Cavan
Round 3 - Home to Fermanagh
Round 4 - Away to Armagh
Round 5 - Doesn't say
Round 6 - Away to Kildare in Croker
Round 7 - Doesn't say

I'd assume the 2 games not mentioned against Meath and Louth are at home

We're due 4 home games"

Replying To thereporter:  "Its churlish to throw out comments like this
Many Fans are struggling to afford the basics due to inflation and going to matches isnt cheap
See London have free admission to home League Matches
But Ticket Prices are up 20% for us Patrons, which was a ****** move by Top Brass
Not great value
Just feathering the nest as usual
Now if stadiums were half decent, thats grand
But they are drab, toilets are flithy , poor food options etc
No better than an average club match in Donegal

Entry fees should be based on the facilities and quality of the Stadium

Amazing that the Gaa beat the inflation rate, ordinary fans shafted as always !!"

Replying To AudiMan:  "In light of the huge importance on this Sunday's game and Donegal's terrible record in Letterkenny would someone from management or county board have the wisdom to switch it to Ballybofey. Drastic measures call for drastic action."

Replying To Tirchonaill1:  "Just listening to the DL debate with Brendan Devenney and Eamon McGee on here on a recorded interview from earlier today I think, it's very hard to make sense of the academy situation etc from an ordinary fans viewpoint,
whatever the ins and outs of it I think it's an awful shame what happened and that Karl is gone, by what Eamon McGee is saying Karl was doing great work and it's a just shame it has come to this."

Replying To ForeverBlue2:  "I agree…. No other field sport has as many officials ( 7 ) but they still miss a lot of off the ball stuff… absolutely bonkers"

Replying To TheRock2121:  "Manager and coach needs to be proven. Some sort of record. Just because you kicked a point in 92 or 2012 doesn't make you a good manager or coach. Easy saying pick a Donegal manger but realistically there's no one proven in the county. Martin Ragen is probably the only manager who could hold his hand up and say I deserve it. Based on his record."

Replying To Tirchonaill1:  "I think Derry have a slightly better squad of players than Donegal and will have over the next couple of years. But one thing I'm sure off is that Jim will have his team setup as good it can possibly be which puts all the pressure on Mickey Harte to get everything right with Derry.
If Donegal beat Derry in the championship it will not be because Donegal have the best players, it will be because McGuinnes prepared his team better than Mickey Harte.
I'd expect Jim to bring something new to Gaelic football that nobody else has done before but he way wait until next year before he plays that hand and use this season to get the conditioning, defensive setup and transitions etc etc all nailed down first."]I don't think Derry have a better or stronger squad of players, the bulk of their team are probably marginally ahead of us in terms of S&C development in the last year or two, so physically speaking they probably have an edge on our fringe or squad players, but despite this there isn't much between us at full strength.

The big problem is Donegal is that we couldn't settle on a back six in the last 6 or 7 years, unfortunately we have shortage of visionary managers who can adapt players for key roles, most coaches in Donegal seem to need ready made midfielders or centre half backs or corner backs etc. Whereas a great manager will adapt players to plug gaps, not just tell them "You're playing corner back on Sunday", but spend months developing them for that specific role."]We had the players but we didn't have the right manager, now we have Jim back we have reason to hope again,
declansboy has been on here for years saying that our players weren't good enough, the truth is the management wasn't good enough to get the best out of what we had available.
Fermanagh will be hard to beat this day week in our bogey ground in Letterkenny but I expect us to win it by 2 or 3 points anyway because we are stating to click into a dangerous team again."]Taking these games to Letterkenny and Ballyshannon is nuts.Complete momentum killer

Replying To SouthOfTheGap:  "Its a bit mad alright, and I know I offered an explanation as to why the crowd was poor enough, Saturday at 2 pm not being ideal. But there was more in Ballybofey for the McKenna Cup game against Armagh. We also had a healthy crowd at the Cork game in Ballybofey (no Cork support), and I thought we were well supported in Cavan as well. It appears that 3,000 is about our core support at the minute, which is disappointing, especially when you see both the Derry and Armagh bandwagons in full flow."