Michael Murphy: Convoy pictures frame Donegal’s growing belief in the message

Jim McGuinness at Ballybofey for the clash with Tyrone. The team’s strength is their belief and a level of conditioning I didn’t think they’d reach for another year. Photograph: Lorcan Doherty/Inpho

Players on Jim’s teams benefit from the clarity of his messaging and knowing exactly what their role is in the overall scheme. But Donegal are also exhibiting the great asset of confidence in what they are doing – an ingredient that is priceless as we go into this time of year.Five things we learned from the GAA weekend: Louth just the latest to break a Meath recordTyrone were still hanging in there until Donegal surged into that moving quarter, just after half-time.

On Saturday, look at the switch of Peadar Mogan – maybe the championship’s outstanding wing back so far – to corner back to mark Darren McCurry. That epitomised the daring of the team, doing something unexpected or counterintuitive as well as showing management’s belief in the group. In a strange way, it’s the best way of defending. We think of defence as backs making interventions to counter opposition forwards. What’s happening here is that you’re obliging that forward to defend by taking him out of the comfort zone when you have defenders like Mogan and Brendan McCole, who are always ‘on’ to break forward.

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