Hurling Development Committee member and Tipperary legend Nicky English fears that it may be a 'struggle' for the proposed changes to the hurling championship to get through Saturday's Special Congress in Croke Park. English said joining Leinster was the "the right thing" for Galway and Antrim to do, adding that the obvious benefit was that it would give the two counties more competitive games around the same time as the other counties in the running for the Liam McCarthy Cup. He said: "As always in the GAA you have lots of people who think about their own sphere of activity first and what impacts on them and that's disappointing. I hope it goes through, but to me it looks like it will struggle. "While this year was disappointing for Galway, I'm not sure you can ultimately blame the competition either. There's symmetry to everybody starting in June or July. And the current system in regard to the All-Ireland championship is quite good - if you could sort out the anomaly with Galway and Antrim particularly." Tweet

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