Central West Rugby Union chief executive officer Peter Veenstra says the game’s board is open to change in the wake of last weekend’s lopsided first grade results.
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But, Veenstra stipulated that change has to be driven by the clubs.
The CWRU will hold its mid-season meeting on June 28 – a date locked in for some time – and no doubt last weekend’s 105-0 win for the Dubbo Kangaroos over Mudgee and the equally damning 101-0 Orange Emus-Parkes Boars result will be top of the agenda.
There was similar results littered throughout the lower grades too, with six teams across second, third and colts grades all passing 60 points on the scoreboard.
As a result of the staggering gulf that’s seemingly growing in the Blowes Clothing Cup, some factions of the region are calling for the competition to be split mid-season so as to ensure competitive fixtures for the rest of 2017.
Both the top half of the competition and then bottom half – two sections of five teams – will play for separate trophies.
Veenstra says any change, much like the mid-year switch of the colts age restrictions from under 19s to under 20s, has to be instigated by the clubs.
“And we’ll certainly be listening at that mid-year meeting,” Veenstra said.
He saw, however, confident the weekend’s blow-outs were a one off.
“All clubs go through cycles and form plays its part. It just so happens that this weekend we had two big scores,” he said.
Certainly Mudgee’s worrying form isn’t a one-off though, with the Wombats leaking, on average, 62 points per game.
Veenstra said Mudgee was going through a rebuilding phase having lost a host of senior players.
Fairfex Media ran a poll online on Monday morning asking the region’s rugby union fans if last weekend's blow-out results are cause for concern?
Overwhelmingly, nearly 90 per cent of the votes cast indicate last Saturday’s rugby results were just the tip of the iceberg.