And they are radical.

Firstly, and crucially, Dubbo Rhinos will re-enter the top tier competition, and CWRU chief executive officer Peter Veenstra confirmed the club will field first grade, second grade and colts outfits.

As a result, the Blowes Clothing Cup will be an 11-team competition, which needs fit into an 18-week season. 

And so, in one of the biggest moves in the competition's history, the Blowes Clothing Cup will be split into two pools, two thirds of the way through the season.

After playing every other side once in the opening 12 weeks of the competition, the 11 clubs will split into two random pools - one of five, one of six - to play out the final six weeks of the regular season.

From there, the five team finals series will be determined from the overall points tally.

“We've got 11 clubs, with 12 weeks to get through (for one full round),” Veenstra explained.

“The second half of the season will be six weeks, so the draw will be done and we'll go from there.

“All the side will play the same number of matches, and the finals will be the top five full stop. The top five overall, combined.”

Veenstra explained the board sees this route as the best result for all involved, and while conceding they can't please everyone, he said the committee is confident in the new system.

Under the new changes, and in an expected move, CWRU has made first grade, second grade and colts mandatory for all the clubs, as the latter wasn't compulsory under the board's original proposed structure. 

Colts will be changed from an under 20 competition to an under 19 age group, despite resistance from the larger clubs in the region.

“Colts will be mandatory, but the thinking of the board is to change the by-laws so it becomes a bit like the junior competitions so that if teams don't have 15 players, the numbers are matched so it becomes a competitive game,” Veenstra explained, with the minimum number of players set at 14.

“One of the reasons we've gone back to the under 19 age group is that we're very much aware of leakage from the under 17s. 

“We know there were clubs where no under 17 players played in the under 20 competitions, and that had to do with the three-year gap being too great.

“This brings it back to the two-year gap we have between all the junior age groups.

“We'll also be trying to have third graders playing every second week.”

The CWRU supremo said he's confident the change of age group will create stronger colts teams in a number of clubs, and said it's unlikely teams will regularly be unable to field a full unit.

“We think what will happen is there will be increased number of players in clubs at the under 19 levels,” he said.

“If there is an issue there obviously we would revisit that at the end of the first half of the season, and have a look if we're consistently getting games that didn't have 15 a side.

“We'd then have to make a decision as to what would happen there.”

While Parkes Boars president Al Gersbach understands why the CWRU changes announced last Thursday have been made, he said they have put his club in a tough position.

The change of the Colts from under 20s to under 19s is his major concern.

“We will lose seven or eight players who would have been eligible for Colts again next season,” Gersbach said.

“But we will just have to go forward from here.

“We are actively recruiting under 19s players with club representatives approaching high schools in a recruitment drive.

“The changes have been implemented to try and secure the future of all clubs in the CWRU.

“Unfortunately we have to feel the short term hurt.

“When the changes were first discussed, we submitted a letter of concern over the change to the Colts age group.

“That could give us some leeway if we can’t get the numbers together for a side for next season, but we would need to definitely have a side the year after.

“We will be doing all we can to avoid that scenario and field a side next year.

“The club already planned to have three grades and Colts for the 2016 season, so those players who are now ineligible for Colts will become important members of one of the three sides,” he said.

The Boars have announced their coaches for 2016 with Paul Moody and Trevor Whitaker again at the reins of First grade.

Israel Symington will coach Second grade while Tony Barrett will guide the Thirds.

Tony Byrne will get assistance from son Riley in coaching the Colts.

The club is beginning training with a light run tomorrow night and encourages all interested players to get there.

The training will continue up to Christmas before a break and return after the Elvis weekend.