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A more defensive approach needed for Donegal – Devenney

FORMER Donegal star Brendan Devenney feels that Donegal are going to have to adopt a more defensive approach if they are to start picking up results this season.

Devenney is a long-time advocate for attacking football and was critical of Donegal’s play at stages over the last ten years when he felt they could have played a more expansive style.

However, he doesn’t think the county has the natural defenders at present to do so.

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“I hate to say it but I think we are going to have to tighten up defensively.

“It’s tough on the new management because there has been shades of this problem for a few years now but we just don’t have a Neil McGee at the back anymore or a Chrissy McKaigue.

“There’s no point in bemoaning it because the boys we have in the backline are good honest players but they’re struggling to do the man-on-man defending and we knew this was coming. We’re wide open at the moment.”

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