With Temora withdrawing from the competition due to coronavirus concerns late last week, Thunder president Rick O'Connell said each player would be contacted before a Group 9 meeting on Sunday.

"As every day passes the harder it gets," O'Connell said.

"We will be ringing all of our players this week to ask if they are in or out.

"Unfortunately some of our players might think it's footy as normal.

"You can't turn up an hour or half an hour early, watch the ressies play, chat and then go and get leisurely dressed.

"You are playing and then you are out of there."

O'Connell also plans to touch base with rival clubs before Sunday's meeting so Albury Thunder can make an informed decision on the season.

Temora fears it could be the first of a handful of Group Nine dominos to fall.

It means Group Nine will be reduced to a maximum of eight teams with Cootamundra also expected to bail out.

Dragons secretary Mark Hughes felt it was best to give up on this season and return stronger in 2021.

"Once they started asking people to have a COVID-19 officer (to monitor procedures) .. I don't think anyone wants that job. It was the last straw for us," Hughes said.

"It's going to be a non-event to win a competition this year and I'm not saying we'd be in the mix, but it would be a tainted premiership."