Hockey ACT made a very late decision to postpone the Capital League competition indefinitely last week due to the COVID-19 pandemic after every other state body had already made the call.

The Border-based Spitfires and Goulburn are the only two sides in the competition based outside ACT and were left in a tricky position.

"Obviously the boys felt really disappointed that the season isn't going ahead," Spitfires' coach Tony Donnolley said.

"They'd had a pretty good pre-season and we were looking red-hot coming into it.

"I'm not quite sure what they (Hockey ACT) were thinking because they're fairly closely affiliated with people in NSW.

"They should have canned it a lot earlier so teams could start organising stuff instead of chasing sponsors and having to give money back if we don't go ahead.

"They were playing it down a bit too much, I don't think they realised the severity of what's going on."

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Donnolley said the group remains hopeful of having a shortened season to look forward to, but admits it's not looking great at this stage.

"If they (the government) had have shut it down straight away we might not have been in this position, but here we are now," he said.

"I think by the time we get it up and going again, there's not going to be many rounds left and teams are going to be underdone because they would have been isolated.

"The boys started training in November and they want to get on the park and show what they've done, but we can't do it at the moment."

Despite the major setback, Donnolley has been pleased with the response from the playing group.

"The boys have been posting in our group chat about what they've been doing and they've all been keeping pretty fit," he said.

"Some of their three, four and five-kilometre runs have been pretty crazy paces.

"We've been working with O-Health and they've been doing a strength and conditioning class free of charge and using us as guinea pigs to see how it goes.

"We've been in talks with them and they're going to send out an at home plan so the boys can do their strength and conditioning at home using everyday items."

The Spitfires had an international player set to arrive in May and hope they will get to see him in full flight.

"Whether that all blows over by then and we're back up and running, we don't know," Donnolley said.

The Spitfires have finished just outside the top four the past two seasons.