The Tigers had more than 40 players at training at Osborne on Thursday night despite coach Joel Mackie being forced to miss the session.

A frustrated Mackie remained in Albury, heeding advice from the NSW government against travelling outside a 50km radius of the border.

Mackie instead trained in Albury alongside former teammates Elliott Powell and Zach Bye in anticipation of the season going ahead.

The Tigers were highly anticipating hosting a practice match against Ganmain-Grong Grong-Matong today.

Osborne football manager Anthony Armstrong said the match would go ahead at 12 pm but Mackie, Powell and Bye would remain in Albury.

"I'm just in the process of organising some umpires for the match," Armstrong said late on Friday afternoon.

"Unfortunately the Albury boys won't be able to play which is obviously not ideal considering Joel is coach.

"But Shayne Weidemann and myself will coach for the day.

"We had good numbers at training on Thursday night.

"I know Narrandera and Griffith pulled out of the competition on Friday but we are raring to go."

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Ganmain-Grong Grong-Matong president Jason Hamblin said the Lions were also excited about the practice match against the Riverina league newcomers Osborne on Saturday.

"One hundred per cent. we're focussed still on the 2020 season," Hamblin told The Daily Advertiser.

"We've got all our protocols in place and as a committee, we're happy to continue with the season.

"We're planning to go to Osborne with a pretty handy list."

The clubs have opted against two grades, and will have one game with unlimited benches.

"I just want to see how our forward line structure works with a few talls there with Nick Murray at centre-half-forward, Riley Corbett, and Dan Foley on a flank," he said.

"And Lou Miller in a forward, he's all class and was the best player in our intra-club last week."

Hamblin said Ben Walsh's role at centre-half-back and their on-ball brigade are other areas they're keen to observe on the paddock.

Meanwhile Riverina league clubs Narrandera and Griffith withdrew from from the competition on Friday.

Both clubs cited increasing community concern.

"Like most clubs, we've been heavily weighing up the risk versus reward balance," Griffith president Jeff Harris told The Daily Advertiser.

"The risk - not for the players as much as the supporters and the community - got to the point where that is weighing heavily on everyone."