If it's not broken don't fix it. That's the message from Jim McGuinness as he puts the final touches to Donegal's preparations for Sunday's Ulster SFC quarter-final against Tyrone in Ballybofey.

"It has been a great couple of years," he told Gaelic Life. "We're into the face of another Championship now. We don't know what it'll hold, but we just know that our approach will be the same.

"We have taken the exact same approach since we came in. They're always very focussed, very grounded and they're training very well. They have a good attitude and a good focus. We will be leaving no stone unturned in our preparation to try and get the performance right.

"If we do that and deliver a top class performance, but don't win the match we wouldn't look back in anger. I mean that. I have said that often.

"You prepare the best you can and you give everything you have. Once you do that, there is nothing left to give.

"If you give everything you've got, there is a very strong possibility that you'll be there or thereabouts. That has been our approach and our mantra in terms of our preparation.

"[The qualifiers] is something that will have to appeal to me on May 27th if we're not successful, but it's not on our radar at the minute.

"We have never thought about them to be honest. We have never been in them. It is very simplistic for us; Get your head down, work hard, prepare the best you can and go out and try to deliver a performance.

"If the performance is good enough to get you over the line, that gives you another shot at it.

"You don't get ahead of yourself, there is a job to be done. We respect every team we play. If it were one of the Division 4 or Division 3 teams in our province instead of Tyrone, we would have the exact same approach.

"We have that sort of continuity. The boys like it and it works well for us so there is no reason to change." Tweet

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