A number of Pascoe Cup games scheduled for Rawlings Park on Sunday have been moved to other grounds in Wagga in a bid to push ahead with this weekend's round.

Football Wagga president Tony Dobbin is determined not to abandon a second straight weekend of play in what is already a shortened season.

Ground inspections will be carried out on Friday but Dobbin is extremely keen to push through the weekend's forecast of wet weather.

"Our main game is still to ensure players can play. It's a shortened season, we're not going to give up any more matches if we can help it," Dobbin said.

"We're keen to push ahead. We'll still have to do ground inspections on Friday just in case that we get downpours or things of that nature.

"So it's all about two things in particular, against the background of wanting the players to play in as many matches as they can in a shortened season, we still have to take into account making sure the grounds survive the season and secondly, player safety. That's where we're headed to."

The Pascoe Cup clash between Henwood Park and Lake Albert on Sunday has been moved to Henwood Park, on the upper field.

Tolland will now host Tumut as Kessler Park, while Wagga United and South Wagga has been moved to Wagga Showground.

The big game between Leeton United and Hanwood remains at Leeton Sportsground.

Dobbin said it is important to look after Rawlings Park as much as possible.

"It's to protect Rawlings, although we are still playing some games there on field three, we're comfortable enough with that but we've moved games to Forest Hill, the Showground and Henwood Park, upper and lower, just to protect the grounds," he said.

"A bit of rain (Wednesday) night, it was tiny but it's just enough to keep it there and we're just trying to preserve the grounds. Even if we hadn't had any more rain, we're still anxious to preserve.

"We've only got another six or seven rounds to go, we don't want to lose those fields. We're playing it safe. Both in terms of keeping the grounds and also player safety."

Football Wagga's initial call was that last week's abandoned round was unlikely to be rescheduled. Dobbin stands by that but is willing to look at some alternatives that has been presented.

"We haven't (made a final decision) yet. There's a couple of ideas that have come forward but we've got to test the viability of them, and practicability of them," he said.

"So at this point in time we've made the decision that we believe it is cancelled but there are a couple of suggestions that have come forward from people so we are going to look at that, but at this point in time we're more concerned about this current round, coming up, than anything else."

Dobbin reminded participants that Football Wagga's number one priority was guiding clubs through the season, while adhering to the unprecedented COVID-19 regulations and protocols.

Football Wagga will maintain it's position that no spectators are allowed at senior matches.

"The biggest issue that still remains for us is the operational side. The biggest aspect is still we want players to be able to continue to play so we still want all our players and our spectators to obey the COVID-19 rules, which means no spectators unless absolutely necessary," he said.

"And there are reasons for that, and secondly, when they play, it's return to play rules, there's certain things they must do when they come to the ground, on the ground and then leave early.

"We really don't want spectators there unless they're essential spectators. There are still pockets of people that, I don't want to say deliberately ignore it, but they aren't conscious of it."

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