It was obviously preplanned by Mayo. Basically it was gamesmanship that was designed to disrupt Dublin's structured pre-match warm up. It didn't disrupt the team going up to The Hill but it certainly disrupted their ability to do their kick arounds and their individual warm ups. It shouldn't have happened and I'm led to believe that John Morrison and Mickey Moran were supposed to go down the Canal End. It was set out like that so why should Dublin have gone anywhere else? They were following protocol. But Mayo ended up there for their own reasons.

There were an awful lot of them as well. I don't know what they were all doing or why there is that many of them. It was an invasion.

Every one of them got up and turned left coming onto the pitch and took up a lot of space so it was well organised. Nobody wants anyone to get injured but I really don't see the need for a nutritionist to be on the field and a major problem was that there was too many non-combatant people out there but I'm sure that was designed as well.

People are saying all week why is it Dublin's right to always go down to the Hill anyway? Well Dublin have always gone down that end traditionally. They fill Croke Park. The GAA know that.

We saw Kerry, Laois, Cork and Mayo play there on the same day not so long ago and it took the four of them to bring 59,000. Dublin would bring that many and more just by themselves. Perhaps people don't recognise the contribution Dublin make and the money that is brought in because of Dublin. It's only when you get to semi-finals and finals that other teams start to bring anywhere near that level of support. Even Kerry-Cork semi-finals can't fill the place.

So it's not unreasonable to say the GAA needs Dublin because there is no other county that can bring in that sort of money. Dublin will fill Croke Park from the first round of Leinster onwards.

They are the facts. Dublin contribute by their crowd and their colour and fair play to them. Most of those fans are on the Hill and the Dublin team naturally want to warm up in front of them. Mayo had no interest in going down there other than playing mind games, like Martin Johnson did with the English rugby team in Lansdowne Road.

There was very little altercation despite everything. It probably enthused both sets of supporters and people looking at Paul Caffrey's shoulder on John Morrison are clutching at straws.

There was no real physical shenanigans. Trying to get Pillar suspended is just being silly and not really justifiable.

I didn't see anyone complaining when other high profile managers took lumps out of each other on the sideline.

Why this is still going on about Pillar I'm not sure.

Maybe it's because it's Dublin, who knows? What's the difference between those two cases?

What now? Are we going to see more of this running down to the Hill from teams who are facing the Dubs? Is it going to become a regular thing now because it worked once, because that can't be allowed to happen. It's happened three times in my living memory but now teams might see it as a way of getting one over Dublin early on.

They'll look for any advantage they can get. I don't think that it's unreasonable that Dublin should be allocated the Hill. It's been done for as long as anyone can remember and it's no big deal.

On the other hand, maybe we should say we're good enough. We'll warm up on top of the stand if needs be and then we'll come out and beat ye. Maybe that's a psychological weakness. If it is Mayo, found it and none of this is taking away from their performance. They were superb and deserve to be in the final.

Val Andrews is a Dublin native who has managed both Cavan and Louth

In conversation with Ewan MacKenna