Coolamon co-coach Jamie Maddox believes players will do what is required for a season to happen

Maddox joined the likes of Guy Orton and Jacob Olsson in supporting the AFL's recommendation of a slashed salary cap and cuts to player payments for the next two seasons.

Maddox, the former Riverina League captain, believes players will do what it takes for a season to go ahead, and more importantly, to see clubs survive.

"I think so. Everyone seems keen to play no matter how it works out so if they get their pay cut in half or if you end up doing it for free, I think it's just how it's got to be," Maddox said.

"Clubs are obviously without an income for four, five months or whatever it will be so to make it viable so that clubs stick around in the long term I think it's something that we've got to look at."

Maddox said it wasn't hard, from a player's prospective, to work out how hard financially this season looms for clubs.

"We're lucky in that we're actually quite financial, which is good, but in terms of major sponsors for the year, all three of them are all pubs, who will have been shut for the last three months," he said.

"You can hardly go an ask them for any sponsorship for the year...so there goes a big chunk of your cash coming in for the year gone.

"All the other clubs would be the same, they're all sponsored by a pub somewhere down the line."

As for the 2020 season, if it goes ahead, Maddox is in the camp that it would need to be a minimum of a one round season.

He also believes an extended season could be the perfect opportunity to trial more twilight and night games.

"I'd like to see at least one round played. I think it would be too hard, or too difficult, if it wasn't to get a fair outcome. So I think you want to play your minimum eight games...one round and a decent finals series, I'm happy enough," he said.

"I'd be stoked if it kept going later on and something I put to our club was if it was extended into October or November, and how we would work that, then we look at twilight games. You coild play them half at night, late afternoon, so the heat doesn't affect you as much.

"But for the sake of still getting a fair comp, at the end of the day, if you play, you want to have someone win the premiership and you want it to be a fair outcome for everyone involved."

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