Cork captain Aoife Murray and manager Paudie Murray have called for camogie rules to be amended but also say that the general public sometimes misunderstand that there is a difference between camogie and hurling rules.
The 2018 All-Ireland senior camogie final drew a lot of criticism for the manner in which referee Eamon Cassidy officiated the game. There was a high number of frees which led to a lot of disruption in the game, and culminated in an injury-time free for Cork to settle the tie.
There was also a first-half penalty for Cork after a challenge on Amy O'Connor, which many felt was a dubious call.
But while the Cork goalkeeper and manager both stated that they would like to see the rules revised to allow for a more free-flowing sport, they added that criticism of the camogie rules is often misplaced.
"People are probably judging it on rules that they don't understand themselves," Aoife Murray told RTÉ Sport during the traditional post-All-Ireland visit to Our Lady's Crumlin Hospital on Monday.
"I've often seen people giving out when a player drops the hurl, saying it should be a free but that's actually part of camogie. You have to take it with a grain of salt and look into who's actually making these comments and if they're referring to the GAA then that says everything because we're not part of the GAA.
"People are judging it on hurling rules. I could easily turn around and question a number of frees that Kilkenny got yesterday, just like they could question our frees. When you win, they point to that one moment in a 65-67 minute match.
"It can't come down to just one moment. Look back to the start of the match and ask if those rules were right.
"They're going to have to change [the rules]. It's not going to be an easy job but it has gotten more physical and faster and maybe the rules need to be tweaked and amended to reflect the standard."
The Cork boss echoed his sister's thoughts about people mistakenly believing that camogie games are officiated in the same way as hurling matches.
He added that Cassidy's performance is not the issue and said that the All-Ireland final was conducted in accordance with the camogie rulebook.
"I'm sure if you sit down and analyse his decisions yesterday, the majority of them were correct because they were based on camogie rules," he said. "It's not Eamon's fault that he has to blow [for fouls].
"I think there were comments made on the penalty we got yesterday and to me, it most certainly was a penalty. If the likes of Ashling Thompson or Gemma O'Connor made that foul, they probably would have seen yellow for it so it's camogie rules that he was applying.
"I think certainly camogie rules have to change the way the game has developed over the last four or five years. Girls are a lot fitter, stronger. Skill levels are higher and that certainly needs to be looked at.
"I think it's a very tricky one for the Camogie Association because if you look at other teams throughout the year, they depend an awful lot on frees to keep them in a game. Lesser teams are looking at 75-80% of their scores coming from frees so if they make it more open, the gap probably will widen between the top three [teams] and the rest."
