Tommy Martin and Declan Lynch joined Off the Ball for the Sunday Paper Review to discuss the week's big talking points.
The GAA Congress took place on Saturday which saw numerous changes brought to the All-Ireland Hurling Championship.
"It's fair to say that you can gauge how well this will work out by the tone of the reaction and the variation of the reactions," Tommy Martin told Joe Molloy, adding: "So, you've got people like Michael Duignan saying 'it's great' and he'd love to be playing now and it's exactly what he would have wanted.
"Jamesie O'Connor is along similar lines in the Sunday Independent saying 'I welcome any change that increases the number of competitive matches'.
"If you're an inter-county player in one of those 10 counties and I suppose the other counties that are involved and you're playing more regular games - you're thinking 'great, I've got top level games and a packed summer schedule, high profile' and all that - ranging from that and I think the quote from Ger Loughnane, certainly on the RTE website yesterday, was something like: 'this could destroy hurling'.
"So, you've a fair range of opinion there from really-pro to really-anti and indeed in the debate yesterday one of the delegates said 'this is the worst decision - if this is passed through, this is the worst decision in the history of the GAA' versus other people who say it's a great decision.
"So, the short answer is we don't know what it's going to do. We don't know how it's going to work out, we don't know what the knock-on effects are going to be but it's through and it sort of, it pretty much changes the face of the Irish summer in many ways. Not just that but it has been confirmed that the All-Ireland hurling final is going to be August 19th."
The full discussion can be heard here:
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