McIver and Donegal going backwards?

I wondered early in the week was Brian McIver regretting spending another year in inter-county management with Donegal.
The Tir Chonaill men's defeat against Tyrone last week pointed up once again that they regularly come up short when they need it most.
Predictably McIver is looking to ring some changes in an effort to put a bit of life back into their season but you have to wonder why he looked backwards rather than forward.
He has brought Brendan Devenney and Adrian Sweeney back into the panel in an effort to shake things up but you have to wonder does this smack a little of desperation.
Sweeney and Devenney have been two very good players for their county.
But Sweeney has looked in the last two years like he has left his best behind him.
He hasn't looked up to the pace of championship football and while still a clever ball player I would question his hunger to get right back in there with the best of them.
But at least I do rate him as one of the best forwards Donegal have had since their great side of the early '90s.
Devenney on the other hand is an enigma, he is able to score wonder points on one hand and look like a novice on the next ball.
His lack of consistency and for me failure to deliver in the big championship games when his side really needed it from him most were always the biggest gaps in his game.
He was brilliant in last year's league and I wondered at last was he going to shake off his disappointments on the national scene once and for all but a bad stomach injury robbed him of building on what had been a great campaign.
I would love to see them deliver for the country's most northerly county but I think that their day has come and gone and McIver is living in hope rather than expectancy.