Another fixtures row has broken out in Donegal.

All-Ireland winning manager Jim McGuinness finds himself in conflict with Donegal County Board once more over club fixture scheduling.

The Donegal boss claims that an agreement was reached whereby club games would be played on either Saturdays or Sundays in the run-up to the May 26th Ulster SFC clash with Tyrone but that this has not been honoured and adds that neither he nor his assistant Rory Gallagher were invited to a forum on club fixtures:

"As county management we weren't invited to that forum," McGuinness writes in his annual report to Convention.

"Secondly, we had an agreement with the CCC. Rory Gallagher met them and we were in agreement all the club games would be played on either a Saturday or a Sunday. If they wanted Saturday, we'd train on a Sunday and if they wanted Sunday then we'd go on Saturday.

"We've a situation now, where, for two weekends in-a-row, there have been Saturday fixtures. We had a challenge match against Galway last Friday and had then planned a tactical training session for Saturday, only to learn there were club games.

"We feel the CCC has misled us. They have forced a situation where the county players, the county management and the clubs are at loggerheads." Tweet

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