While the season itself looks like it will be shorter, there will be a chance for girls to try there hand in a different format with a gala day set for the April 10 according to Group 20 Operations Manager Rocci DiSalvatore.

"If there is interest from girls that want to play tackle and if we get enough teams we will look at an actual competition of five to six weeks at the start of the season," he said.

"They may not be playing as Griffith or Leeton we just want to get them all there and put them into teams and see what the interest is.

"We want to give the girls the option to play tackle on Friday night, and then they can back up on the weekend if they want to play league tag."

As for the rest of the season, with a push from clubs to make the season shorter, the competition will run from May 1 with the grand final to be played on September 5.

It means the competition will come out to be a 14-round competition which does present some difficulties.

"When working out how we were going to go about the season the reaction from some of the clubs was that they wanted to have a bit of a shorter season," he said.

"We will work off a nine-round draw, to begin with, and then from there looking at a derby round with the rest of the games to be drawn out of a hat.

"Having a nine-team competition at this stage means it's the only way we can shorten the season."

There has also been a push from the clubs around the area to have more Saturday games, and DiSalvatore said they would have to align with their juniors to make the most of the opportunity.

"There have been a few clubs who have indicated they want to play on Saturday and if they want to play Saturday they have to make sure they align to play with the juniors," he said.

"We want to make sure that if they want to play Saturday that the 12s and 14s are also playing that day.

"It will hopefully cut down on the travel if parents have kids playing 12-year-old son playing and then a son playing in the under 18s and they are both in Hay it means you are only going on one day."

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