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Jim McGuinness on the Croke Park sideline last summer. INPHO/James Crombie

Poll: Was Jim McGuinness right to axe All-Star Cassidy over book comments?

Is this a manager over-reacting or a player getting the punishment he deserves?

LAST NIGHT, DONEGALโ€™S senior football manager Jim McGuinness cut All-Star Kevin Cassidy from the panel.

The wing-back starred in the countyโ€™s Ulster SFC win last summer and their subsequent run to the All-Ireland semi-finals.

In fact, Cassidy kicked the sensational late-in-extra-time point that beat Kildare in the last eight showdown at Croke Park.

So why is he off the countyโ€™s panel? Cassidy spoke to Fermanagh-based journalist Declan Bogue for his book โ€˜This Is Our Yearโ€™, in which he reveals some specifics of McGuinnessโ€™s training regime as well as tactics used by the team.

The Gweedore man is also critical of the previous management regime and says the squad decided to โ€˜get nastyโ€™ with players verbally on the pitch.

Some will think this decision an over-reaction by the manager? Others will, no doubt, argue that Cassidy breached the trust needed within a dressingroom and can have no complaints. What do you think?

Was Jim McGuinness right to cut Cassidy from the panel?


Poll Results:

No, it's very harsh (172)
Yes, Ger (143)
Don't care (29)

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