Ben O’Connor is unhappy with what he perceives as time-wasting from free-takers.

The Cork manager highlighted the issue once again after Cork’s defeat to Limerick in Sunday’s Allianz Hurling League Division 1A final.

“I suppose it was a bit scrappy. There were a lot of frees given there,” he told reporters.

“We didn’t get too many of them, but there were a lot of frees given. I suppose it slowed the game down for fellas.

“I’m not on about the Limerick free-taker, but free-takers in general these days. There’s two minutes of a free now from the time the whistle is blown to the time the ball is hit. Seven or eight frees, that’s 14 or 15 minutes wasted hitting frees.”

He added: “When you’re playing with the breeze, it is frustrating that you can’t get a flow and can’t get a rhythm going.

“That’s for another day, another discussion.”

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