1992 Donegal All-Ireland winning manager Brian McEniff says defensive tactics are 'spoiling' gaelic football and that fellow county man Jim McGuinness is largely responsible for that.

McGuinness concocted a game plan that yielded one All-Ireland and three Ulster SFC titles in four seasons but McEniff admitted their winning formula wasn't pleasing on the eye.

"Jim came in with a plan - and he won us an All-Ireland with the plan," McEniff told Newstalk 106.

"It wasn't what I like, as I have often mentioned. I spoke to Jim about it, but it was successful.

"He actually bought an Armagh and Tyrone situation from 2003 and perfected it.

"Unfortunately it's spoiling the game. There's no doubt about it."

McEniff continued: "I'm going to write to Jarlath Burns, who's taken over a new sub-committee in Croke Park, about the state of the current game.

"I'm not very happy about it - when I coached teams I always thought that the best means of defence was attack because when you had the ball you could dictate.

"And its twice as hard to defend as it is to attack, so we always played extrovert football here in Donegal."

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