While clubs know who they will play, the season’s format is yet to be finalised.

The association yesterday released its conferences for next season after presenting them to clubs at a forum on Monday night. Division one premier Woodford, runner-up East Warrnambool-YCW and semi-finalist Dennington head the six-club Merri conference.

WDCA manager Michael Harrison said the pools were based on overall ladder positions, with odd-number-ranked sides in one and even-ranked sides in the other.

But Harrison said the association’s board was forced to tinker with the rankings as it prepared for the third and final year of a conference-system trial that had been introduced following an unprecedented think tank.

“We just had to tweak it a little bit to make sure everyone played each other once in the three-year period,” he said.

“Some clubs had been in a different conference each year and we wanted every club to have been grouped together once in the three years.

“There have been one or two minor changes (to make that happen). It probably would have happened in the fourth year but the trial is only three.

“It’s good having clubs play each other at least once. It’s not good to have a club not playing another for three, four, five, six, seven years.”

Harrison said clubs provided good feedback at Monday night’s forum. They raised concerns about the timing of the Twenty20 competition, forcing the board to rethink the structure of the season.

“Some clubs have concerns with T20 cricket and the timing of it,” he said.

“The structure of the competition is being reviewed at the moment. As far as the board thought, we thought we had it pretty right but the clubs see it differently.”

Harrison said the board had listened to clubs and the revised plan would be presented to delegates at the next forum.

He said at the end of the 2015-16 season, the association would hold another strategic planning forum, similar to the one three years ago.