Wangaratta Rovers are disappointed players won't lose a point next season.
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AFL North East Border announced last Thursday all player points for 2021 will remain the same after the 2020 season was abandoned, due to COVID-19.
AFLNEB rules state a player must play five games in a season to lose a point.
"Yeah I think it is (tough), especially clubs that are endeavouring to improve and strive for finals and make the competition even," Hawks' football operations manager Barry Sullivan said.
"It (2019) was a year of building for us and we had some positive momentum happening ... and you lose that benefit I guess, especially if guys end up changing clubs and moving on and you're basically replacing them with players of similar standard that are attracting bigger points."
Rovers haven't played finals since 2014 and claimed a winless wooden spoon in 2018, but fell short of playing finals last year on percentage.
The Hawks boast extra points next year, joining Myrtleford on 40, with North Albury and Wodonga (44), while Corowa-Rutherglen has 46.
A club's record over recent seasons is taken into account.
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"We're happy that the points carried over from this year to next so that gives us as a club, that's trying to move up the ladder, the opportunity to go out and recruit," Corowa-Rutherglen head of football Craig Spencer said.
"I would have also probably preferred that they did (all players lose a point next year), but it's not a gamebreaker for us.'
