Under 23s coach Jody Rudd questioned the timing of the competition after another disappointing showing against Monaro at Leeton No.1 Oval on Sunday.

Rudd admitted he struggled to get players to commit to the representative program after the 46-6 loss.

"I think the whole format needs a bit of a review," Rudd said.

"We had a lot of guys who were eligible to play but didn't want themselves available.

"I don't know what the incentive is there to play 23s."

The scheduling is the major issue according to Rudd.

The championships were brought forward last season to avoid players having to chose between representative football and competition games with their clubs.

However Rudd isn't sure it has worked

"You have guys who work and live right across a vast area and you are trying to get them together to do some training sessions through the middle of summer," he said.

"At the end of the day what are putting up there apart from the opportunity to play a high level of football as priorities are changing and a lot of guys are electing to follow work or travel."

Rudd thought split rounds throughout the year could work within the usual winter football period.

It comes after a massive second half blowout up against Monaro on Sunday.

Coming off a 46-0 loss to Illawarra South Coast in their first round, the Bulls conceded 46 straight points to suffer another heavy defeat.

Liam Wiscombe scored early to hand Riverina the lead and they only trailled 8-6 at half-time following an intercept try.

However things quickly unravelled in the second half.

While pleased with the performance early, Rudd was disappointed the team couldn't continue to flourish.

"I think everyone was disappointed not just me," he said.

"The guys were pretty downhearted after the game and to put in a performance like that in the first half and then turn around and not be able to back it up as a bit of a let down for them."

New Kangaroos coach Hayden Ashcroft was the standout throughout the two games with his high work rate.

Connor McCauley and Jayke Hogan were also strong in the forward pack.

The region got a glimpse of Cootamundra's new fullback Jordan Coleman after he came into the side for the injured James Girdler.

Rudd thought there was improvement.

"Last week we only showed in patches that we could compete while this time we showed in the first half we could compete but it is a requirement to keep it at that level," he said.

"The first three or four sets after half-time we didn't complete, we turned the ball over in pretty bad positions and they scored two or three quick tries and you could see in the body language that sense of belief was lost, they started to panic again and it got to a point where it blew out."

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