Kevin McStay has become the latest manager to criticise the Croke Park surface.

Jim Gavin was equally unimpressed with the state of the pitch after Dublin's Leinster final win over Kildare earlier this month, which took place a week after Croke Park hosted a Coldplay concert. Immediately after that game, a section of the pitch at the Hill 16 end of the ground was dug up for last weekend's U2 concert and relayed during last week. 

"We were watching the games in the hotel on Saturday night and it seemed to have more of an influence then," McStay said after Roscommon's drawn All-Ireland SFC quarter-final with Mayo yesterday.

"I don't want to be dissing on Croke Park, but it's not good enough. If one of our young corner-backs slipped there at a crucial moment and the ball ends up in the net he'll never be let forget that moment.

"And there was a lot of slipping going on. I'm sure ye noticed that. We had a big issue of studs on Sunday morning and what they were going to wear.

"Look, it wasn't a defining thing but it's not good enough to have a third of your pitch slippy up to between the '20' and the '45'."

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