With the announcement on Thursday afternoon that the NSW lockdown would be extended for another week, winter sports are facing another week of delays.
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Group 20, who started their finals series last Saturday, are faced with pushing the qualifying final, which would have seen Leeton taking on DPC Roosters at Leeton No 1 Oval pushed back until at least Sunday, August 29.
With the uncertainty currently surrounding the lockdown, Group 20 are currently working through strategies as to how they can complete the season if given the chance.
"We have been going through a few scenarios with David Skinner, and we have a deadline of when we need to be finished by which is October, but I don't think we are going to go all that way," Group 20 operations manager Rocci DiSalvatore said.
"There could be a possibility that we could look at playing whoever finished first and second only and them just playing a grand final, but we are just going to wait and see.
"We have to try and be a bit fair to the teams like Waratahs who have already played. I think the scenarios that we have been working on will go to the clubs this weekend."
The thing Group 20 has working in their favour is they would only need three weekends to get the season completed before the October deadline.
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There is a just in case scenario being discussed if there is no further on-field action before that point.
"There was discussion that if we got to that point, it would come down to first past the post, so whoever the minor premiers are would become the premiers," he said.
"We don't want to see that because we don't think it would be fair to the other clubs, but that is something that is out of our control.
"This is something that we would have to call a zoom meeting with all of the clubs if it got to a really drastic point.
"The board wouldn't make the decision ourselves. We would bring that clubs in and tell them this is where we are up to, and this is what the board recommends, and they vote on it. If it is a unanimous vote, that is how the season will end up."
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