A potential last ditch scenario to ensure an AWFA season goes ahead in some capacity has been met with mixed reviews by three of the league's senior coaches.
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AWFA president Mark Leman revealed on a recent video for All In Sports that the executive had drafted a number of scenarios around various return dates.
One of those scenarios was splitting the league into two pools of six to play a five-week round-robin, with the top four from each side progressing to the quarter-finals.
Leman said the aim remains to at least get a further 10 games in to ensure everyone plays each other once, before heading into a three-week finals series, with the pool scenario a last resort if the clubs wanted it.
Wodonga Diamonds coach Daniel Griffin said it would be his last preference given it would be difficult to make it fair for all clubs.
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"Obviously there's stronger and weaker teams, how do you ensure everyone is playing the right mix? My preference at this stage would be a full season," he said.
"I'd be happy to be playing on a Wednesday or Thursday and back up to play Sunday, having said that I'm the coach and I'm not out there running around (laughs).
"I think the guys would be more than happy to do that. We're still in touch with the playing group and they're all chomping at the bit to go.
"Worst case scenario we play everyone once, that's still an even, balanced season. I get the idea of the Champions League scenario to get as much football in as possible, but I really don't think it's a viable option.
"If it came to 'we just want to play, let's get some football in' and that was our only option, then let's go for it."
Albury Hotspurs coach Matt Townsend agreed with Griffin that it would be difficult to fairly split the competition into two pools, but is all for anything to get players back on the park.
"I just want to play again, but we can't really work anything out until we at least know when we're going to start," he said.
"It will be difficult because I'm not sure how well everyone is keeping up their fitness. It won't be high quality because we haven't had a training session in over a month."
But a later start would have more of an impact on Boomers, with coach Andrew Grove saying it would force several of his players to decide between soccer and their chosen summer sport.
"My thought is if it kind of goes on too long, maybe just scrap the season and start again next year," Grove said.
"If things are to resume around then (September-October), summer sports are going to pick back up.
"I've got a lot of guys that play cricket and stuff like that, so it might be difficult. The team wouldn't be the same that's for sure.
"Guys like Noah (Spiteri) and 'Browny' (Nick Brown) play cricket all the way up until March and don't really train in the pre-season or they try to jump between the two."
Griffin has been impressed with the way AWFA executives have handled the COVID-19 crisis to ensure the league will be ready to go when it is safe to do so.