THE 2012/2013 Red Stripe Premier League season is mercifully over and congratulations are in order for champions Harbour View, as we say good-bye to Savannah SC and Highgate United.

We also say good-bye to Latoya DaCosta, former General Manager for the Premier League Club Association, who has taken up a substantive position with the Caribbean Football Union, and we wish her well.

Reliable sources have also said chairman Edward Seaga is on his way out as well, and whoever takes over from these two will have a massive job on their hands, as they attempt to revamp the competition.

While the league has a lot of tinkering to do, the most vexing issue must be the nonsensical fourth round where the teams are separated into two groups, the top six on points after the third round, playing each other once, with the bottom six, ‘the relegation round’, doing same.

During the last two seasons, at least one team in the bottom round has scored more points than the sixth-placed team, making a mockery of the existing format.

At the end of the third round, Tivoli Gardens just edged Montego Bay United 48-47 points for the sixth place and ensured their place next season, but at the end of the fourth round had 50 points to MBU’s 54.

Notwithstanding that, the Kingston club received the sixth- place award at the recent awards ceremony, meaning, at least to me, that the fourth-round points were not important.

If the PLCA declared Tivoli the sixth-placed team based on their positions after three rounds, why not declare Harbour View Champions and Portmore second place at that point as well?

Why bother to play the five additional games if the points earned by teams in the lower half will not be counted towards their final placing, but will be used to decide if they stay in the league, or relegated?

What if Waterhouse had managed to score more points than Harbour View in the fourth round, would Harbour View be declared champions based on where they were after three rounds?

The new PLCA must also look at how they schedule games; at the start of this season, both Clarendon clubs — Humble Lion FC and Sporting Central Academy — had home games on the same day, as did the two western-based clubs.

The fixtures were adjusted for the Clarendon clubs, but no amount of lobbying would budge them, as far as the western clubs were concerned.

The schedule of Monday night games was also a serious concern, as at one stage it appeared that only certain venues and certain teams in the Corporate Area were worthy of the Monday night spotlight, no matter how boring and lifeless the games were.

It would be unfair to say it is a Kingston conspiracy, as we did not see much of Cavalier on Monday nights either.

Recently we saw the sponsors announcing they had sold a lot of their main products in the past two seasons.

Certainly western Jamaica and other areas of the island must be seen as further growth areas if the RSPL is to be truly a national competition, and not just to be slanted in the favour of one small geographical area.