Laois senior hurling manager Seamas Cheddar Plunkett has called on referees to clamp down on what he deems to be players who are ‘codding’ them.
The O’Moore boss was speaking after his side lost by eight points to Dublin on Saturday night in Portlaoise – with exactly half of the Dubs’ 30 points coming from placed balls.
Donal Burke top scored with 18 points – 14 of them from frees and another from a 65.
Several of the frees awarded by referee Paud O’Dwyer on the night enraged the Laois management, and although Plunkett did not wish to whinge about it – he felt the referee had been conned in some instances.
He said: “I think the first five or six minutes of the second half killed us because they got four or five frees. That shoved them that little bit ahead.
“I don’t think he (Donal Burke) missed a whole lot but I thought a lot of those frees were tough calls. I know from looking back at videos over the years, I would say that if I was the manager in the other dugout I would think some calls were tough too.
“So I won’t whinge about that. I don’t think our discipline is poor but there are some technical things like arm around the neck that we are giving away frees from and we can probably improve upon.
“But I actually think a lot of the time the frees should be the other way. Most the time, opposition players are pulling you in and then sucking in the arm and rolling over.
“People are codding the referees and I think referees need to stamp down on this a little bit better.
“Now there are some genuine frees, but I do think it is a bit of a malaise in hurling at the minute – sucking people in for frees.
“The other side of that then is (to tell players) not to raise your hurl, raise your arm or tackle – and if they didn’t do that, I’d have something else to say.”
Laois are back in action on Sunday afternoon when they face Clare in round 3.
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