Dublin won’t be radically changing their style of play in the wake of last season’s All-Ireland semi-final defeat Donegal, says defender James McCarthy.
The view was that Dublin left themselves overly exposed at the back in their capitulation against Jim McGuinness’s side last August and that a new game plan will be put in place to ensure they won’t be caught out again.
However, McCarthy doesn’t expect a radical overhaul in their approach to the 2015 season.
Speaking to RTÉ Sport, the Ballymun Kickhams clubman said: "The defeat against Donegal was not the end of the world. We don’t need to reinvent the wheel.
"There’s a few things we need to tweak. We have a way of playing, we have a philosophy, and we’re not going to overly change it.
"We’ve won five out of six competitions so we’re doing all right. We had one bad day in a big game."
McCarthy did admit that he has watched the game back.
"I have watched it once or twice,” he added.
"I’ve been trying to make up my own mind as to where we went wrong. I have a few ideas. You learn a lot from defeat as well."
"We’ve won five out of six competitions so we’re doing all right" - James McCarthy
Not surprisingly, McCarthy is looking forward to renewing rivalry with the Ulster county in the league on Saturday night at Croke Park.
“It’s a great game for us to get now. With a lot of new lads in there, it’s a great test.
"I saw them [Donegal] against Derry and they seemed to be moving well. They’ve been successful the last couple of years so they weren’t going to change that – they’d be mad to.
“It should be a great game. And it’s a game we’re going to be trying to win because if you lose your first two league games, you put yourself under pressure then in terms of fighting off relegation."
