Kevin McStay has hit out at the decision by Congress delegates to vote against Donegal's motion to limit Dublin to just one Super 8 game at Croke Park.
Motion 39 surprisingly only received 36% support after Donegal first raised the issue of Croke Park being used as a home venue for Dublin in the Super 8s last summer.
Former Roscommon boss McStay believes Dublin's ability to attract greater revenue was at the heart of the decision.
"It's very disappointing from my perspective. I'd have seen it as a motion that was demanding fair play, nothing more, nothing less than that. It was well beaten so Dublin now continue to play two matches in Croke Park," he said on RTE Radio.
"This is the the essence of it. Last year in the championship there was a game played in Newbridge with, I don't know, about 4,000 people.
"I was involved as Roscommon manager when we said as a group there was absolutely no way we were not playing our game in Dr Hyde Park (the Connacht final v Galway in 2018) with a reduced capacity. We dug our heels in on that and the game went ahead.
"I don't see any reason why the Dublin game cannot be in Parnell Park. There was precedence and yet we go back to this idea of a loss of revenue and the grants being affected if the big money Dublin bring in to Croke Park isn't available to stream down the counties.
"They go to such lengths, the GAA, to say 'it's not about money, it's about the club, it's the county units'. Then we see this action."
The former Mayo All-Star added: "I think most people would agree that this was about fairness. In the last eight, the elite level of the game, a county plays two games in Croke Park, essentially a home venue. No other county in the Super 8s has that possibility.
"There's one rule obviously for Dublin and one for the other counties. That would be my position. I don't agree with it because I don't think it was fair."
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