Jim McGuinness has expressed his dislike for the two-point arc, claiming it devalues a goal.

Speaking to RTÉ after Donegal’s Allianz Football League defeat to Tyrone in Letterkenny, he said of the new rules: “If you're asking me, is there anything that jumps out at you? I don't believe, personally, that you should get two points for a free kick outside the arc.

"You're asking a top-level inter-county player, who’s 40 metres in front of the goal and he's going to kick that ball over the bar and that equates to 66% of a goal. That doesn't make sense to me.

"Maybe I'm from a different era. With Championship football, if you saw your name in the paper and you had a point beside it, it was a thing. I wouldn't say it was a big thing, but it was a thing."

The Donegal manager added: "If we're going to use the 40-metre arc in and it's from play, where you've got to lose somebody to get that bit of space and kick it under pressure and the noise and the temperature and the heat of championship football. okay, maybe two points there.

"But for an inter-county player to settle down and tap that over the bar, that doesn't make sense to me that that would equate to 66% of a goal.

"It’s devaluing a goal a bit. You know, two of them is more than a goal. A fella settling down with no pressure.”

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