Junee are still preparing for the Group Nine season to go ahead despite worry over the impact coronavirus restrictions could have on crowds
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Contrary to the rumour mill, and initial reaction, Diesels president Simon Vanzanten is confident the club will be ready for a shortened season.
"We've been doing a lot of work behind the scenes to see how we could run in the shortened version," Vanzanten said. "We really want to push some type of football.
"The main reason is for our juniors as it is the first time in a long time we will have juniors and our under 16s would have been very competitive.
"We are hoping there is some kind of footy for them and we don't lose those kids."
The potential for socialising after games is one stumbling block senior players have.
However Vanzanten is confident financially the club will be able to work out a different approach.
"We are going to have to talk to a lot of players but we are in a lucky situation where a lot of our sponsors haven't been affected too much besides the pubs and clubs in town," he said.
"Workers in myself pubs and clubs, and myself, are the ones who have been affected workwise but the jail, the abattoirs and the railway are all still working."
While there are still many unanswerable questions of what life might be like in July Vanzanten believes it is important for the club's long term viability to get back on the field.
Especially with the boost in numbers they were starting to see this season after holding a state of play meeting last year.
Group Nine chairman Peter McDermott floated the idea of clubs coming together to decide on a structure for the season but Vanzanten suggested waiting until June to allow for a better sense of what restrictions might be in place by then.
He also thought if crowds were to increase to the 500 mark, as previously implemented by the government, weeks after July 18 the club would be able to start then but a more long term 100-person limit would be unsustainable.
"When the government says up to 100 we couldn't go with that as when you've got a couple of teams, officials and team officials and then you wouldn't have a crowd," Vanzanten said.
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