Cloughaneely manager Doohan reveals that Jason McGee 'may have to go for surgery'

Cloughaneely manager Denis Doohan has said that there is no set date for the return of Donegal midfielder Jason McGee to the field, with the Gaeltacht boss revealing that the inter-county player's injury is under review and that he “may have to go for surgery”. 

McGee, who had been sidelined with injury for almost all of Donegal’s Allianz League campaign but returned to play a main role in Donegal’s march towards the Ulster championship. 

But after picking up an injury against Cork, the Cloughaneely man was back on the treatment table for Donegal’s two championship games against Clare and Louth, the latter in the All-Ireland quarter-final, before making a return to the squad for his side’s All-Ireland semi-final clash against Galway with Pádraic Joyce’s side prevailing by two points.  

But with the inter-county season very much behind us, McGee is ruled out once again with injury, having missed the opening three rounds of the senior club championship, and no date confirmed for when the towering midfielder is set to return. 

“We’ve not had Jason for any of our three games in the championship and we don’t know if we are going to have him for the remaining games,” said Cloughaneely boss Doohan.  

“As I understand his injury is under review and he may have to go for surgery. I don’t know when a decision is going to be made on his situation and I don’t know when or if he will be free to play with us.  

“Obviously we are disappointed that we haven’t had him. We are also very disappointed for our supporters. They haven’t seen Jason play for the club this year.” 

For the second week in a row, Cloughaneely lost crunch championship games by two points leaving them on zero in the championship table with one tie to go.  

Two weeks ago, Doohan’s charges came out on the wrong end of their second-round encounter with the Michael Murphy-powered Glenswilly.  

The Glen men won that game in Páirc Naomh Columba on a 0-14 to 2-6 scoreline, while on Sunday past, Cloughaneely went down again to Maxi Curran’s Downings by 1-9 to 0-10 points.  

More crushing for Doohan and his charges is that they were two successive two-point defeats in games from which they could have taken something. 

“Jason is a huge loss,” Doohan said regarding the absence of star inter-county man Jason McGee after Sunday's two-point defeat to Downings.  

“As you can imagine he is a huge loss in a two or three-point game. I would like to think, in those types of games he would make a big difference and would be the difference between winning and losing.”