For the past three years the competition structure has been picked over, with several clubs voicing their disapproval about the constant shifting of the goal posts.

However, with the news Grenfell and West Wyalong have joined the Presidents Cup competition based in the state's Central West, McTaggart said the SIRU board had no choice but to look at the structure for the upcoming season.

"This change is going to happen, the clubs at the AGM largely agreed to the changes that were laid out," McTaggart said.

"At the end of the day, we'd heard the rumblings that Grenfell were looking to go to Central West, and after we received word they'd gone then, I'll be honest, it was just a matter of me saying at the AGM 'we have 12 clubs, I've done a draw based on the fact we play each other once and then split'.

"We've done this before, we're not reinventing the wheel, but we haven't been able to do a split draw in recent years because of the number of clubs we had."

The new structure will see all clubs play each other once, with the top six splitting off to vie for the Walsh and Blair Cup with the remaining half-dozen teams playing for the Romano's Cup, with another five games played in the new split competition.

However, some stakeholders in the game believe clubs should not be rewarded for mediocrity, saying if teams lose more games than they win, they should not have the chance to be crowned champions of any competition.

McTaggart acknowledged the concerns, but said teams would have their fate in their own hands during the first half of the season, with weaker clubs likely to play clubs comparable in skill and numbers in the back half of the year.

"To me, it's not rewarding mediocrity, it's using our brains to say that the winners of what will now be the Romano's Cup do go on to better things," McTaggart said.

Clubs will have until the end of January to submit proposed changes to the draw, with anniversary weekends likely to alter the draw as it stands now.

McTaggart hinted that some Wagga sides may travel twice to Griffith, to even out the travelling.