Southern Inland Rugby Union says first grade competitions will be the priority as it works towards a competition structure and draw in coming weeks.
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The SIRU board will meet on Monday to assess how clubs are shaping up in the hope of a July 18 start date (July 26 for juniors).
"Our priority as a competition and a union is to work from first grade men's and women's competitions down to second grade and third grade," SIRU competitions manager, Jack Heffernan said.
"In the next one to two weeks we'd hope to have a more confirmed position, from the clubs and from us, on what the competition looks like and what the draw would look like as well."
Albury withdrew from first grade last week while university shutdowns due to coronavirus could impact Aggies.
"Every club is facing its own challenges... we're working with all the clubs on what their invidividual scenario is at this stage and we've got a meeting on Monday night with our board to go through where all the clubs are at and how we want the competition to look," Heffernan said.
He said this week's news that adult sport, including contact training, can resume on the 1st of July should allow clubs enough time to fully prepare for a season.
"We'll probably resume contact training from the 1st of July. We've communicated to clubs and elsewhere that we'd allow three to four weeks of preparation before a season, in a contact environment, for obvious safety reasons," he said.
"We're currently working off the 18th of July for a senior competition and the 26th of July for the junior competition as a competition start date but that's just the proposal at the moment."
Heffernan said SIRU is hopefully awaiting confirmation that non-contact training groups can be expanded to groups of 20 from next week which would further help season preparations.
