Group 20 clubs in favour of Saturday shift

The majority of the rounds will have two games on Saturday and two games on Sunday.

The clubs from around Group 20 had been leading a push to have more games played on Saturdays, and with eight of the 14 rounds, it seems the clubs will get what they are after.

Yanco-Wamoon will play nine of their 12 games on Saturday while Waratahs will play eight.

Group 20 operations manager Rocci DiSalvatore said the clubs had full control to make the request to play on the day that most suited them.

"Tahs have requested mostly Saturday games because a lot of their players go to church on Sunday," he said.

"As for Yanco, they requested mostly Saturday because most of their players wanted to have Sunday off."

Meanwhile, Hay will play five Saturday games, Leeton and Black and Whites have five while Yenda and DPC take to the field four times on Saturday.

TLU Sharks and West Wyalong will play all of their games on Sunday

"Lakes definitely can't have any Saturday games because they have a lot of Aussie Rules players who play on a Saturday," he said.

"They were all given the chance to request what they had wanted, and that is what we ended up with."

The back end of the season will see six sides have the bye in the final two rounds of the season to ensure fairness across the competition.

"The reason a lot of clubs have the bye in the last two rounds is to even it up so that every club has same amount of home and away and they all get two byes each," he said.

"The only way to avoid that was to have a longer season by most of the clubs wanted to have a shorter season so it was the fairest way we could do it."

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