“We’re a bit filthy with it,” he said.

“We’ve got a team (St Patrick’s) that’s just one point behind us and we’ve beaten them in a two-day game, and we’ve won four more games than them.

“There are teams that are going to miss out on finals that have won more games than a team or teams that are in the finals.

“The points scoring system, it definitely needs to be reviewed, it could be farcical what’s happening at the moment.”

Third-placed Lavington’s beef is that it boasts the second-best win-loss record, 10 wins and four losses, but could still find itself out of finals if last-round results don’t go its way.

As it stands, Wodonga leads the competition, with an 11-3 record.

North Albury has an outright win, plus eight other victories, as well as five losses.

St Patrick’s is 2-4-8, Belvoir 1-6-7, East Abury 8-6, Tallangatta 9-5 and Albury 8-6.

New City (2-12 and two outright losses) and Wodonga Raiders (two outright losses and 12 first innings losses) are right off the pace.

There’s not enough weekends available to play each other once in both the one and two-day formats, so the season is split into two T20s, eight one-dayers and five two-dayers.

Mackinlay, who’s based in Albury for Cricket NSW, says the bonus points system, which rewards teams for runs scored and wickets taken, should be scrapped and serious consideration given to reducing the number of teams.

“It’s crying out for an eight-team comp where you play everybody once in a one-dayer, and you play everybody in a two-day game,” he said.

A number of clubs have spoken privately about the uneven draw, but Mackinlay’s comments have gained support.

“I know people are saying at the start of the season we had a soft draw, but you look at St Pat’s, Belvoir, those sorts of teams when they played Wodonga Raiders,” Wodonga coach Dan Dixon said.

“We got 12 points out of the two Raiders games, and Raiders got four points, whereas when Belvoir played them, they got 16 points out of the game, so automatically we’re nearly a game behind them.”

Wodonga played Wodonga Raiders three times in the first eight rounds, but they were either T20 or one-dayers, which don’t allow for an outright.

“Yes, we got to play (Raiders and New City) twice in one-dayers, but four wins got us 24 points,” Albury co-coach Alex Popko said.

“St Pat’s got two outrights against them in the last two games and that gives them 34, so effectively, two extra wins.”