St Pats coach Brett Easton not fazed by likely reduced season

Easton is also St Pats' senior men's goalkeeper, and, like so many, is itching to get back on the park.

"Whether it's just play each other once or the Champions League (pool) format, I personally don't care. I just want to be able to play some football this year," he said.

"Even if it's only half a dozen games, just use it and build into next year.

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"Hopefully if everyone is starved of football this year, there will be a lot of excitement and goodwill around the league next year."

Easton fears a lot of the momentum from the start of this year's women's campaign has been lost amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

But his biggest concern is around player safety with midweek games a possibility.

"If we come back and we only have a couple of weeks of training before we start, it's a bit of a risk in terms of injury and player fatigue without a full pre-season under everyone's belt," he added.

Easton said the focus at St Pats this season was going to be more on player mindset and how to react in different situations.

"It might have affected us negatively more than some of the other teams because this year we were looking more on the team structure, organisation and our communication, not necessarily the physical side with our fitness and skills," he said.

"You can set programs for people to keep fit and keep their skills up, but it's hard to do those other parts without bringing everyone together."