Any restructure of senior football has been pushed back 12 months, but the make-up of next year's junior grades will be up for debate now a shortened WDJFNL season has come to a conclusion with a successful grand final day last week.

Last year's independent review into AFL Riverina recommended a change in age groups to under 12, 14 and 16 competitions, and 18s as the third grade in seniors.

"We'll sit down and review the junior season, similar to what we've done for the salary cap and points system for the seniors," AFL Southern NSW regional manager Marc Geppert said.

"Part of it will be the junior age group structures for Wagga Juniors. We'll review what the age groups are going to look like for next year. So, no, they haven't changed yet.

"The other part will be reviewing 17.5s versus 18s at senior level.

"And then the senior competition structure - we've said we won't change that next year but we need to consider when do we start to implement changes for that for the following year."

The Burgess review's key recommendation was a move to a tiered senior competition structure. However, it went on the backburner amid the chaos of Covid-19, which saw the AFL virtually close its office in March, apart from Geppert on reduced hours.

"All those recommendations were made. They all got put on hold because of coronavirus. We'll go through those recommendations and try to implement the ones we can for next year but any that are too major, they'll be pushed back 12 months," Geppert said.

"The (senior) clubs' views are to get one full season of normal footy in to get prepared, after the season we've just had."

Only five AFL Riverina clubs played senior football and next year with the Farrer League going into recess and Collingullie-Glenfield Park, Coolamon, Griffith and Narrandera also sitting out the season.

Meanwhile, in the wake of a reduced $80,000 salary cap for next year, Geppert warned that club spending is being monitored.

"The AFL assessed every player contract and the figures around the reporting system... what contracted players were paid, what non-contracted players were paid, the dates contracts were signed, if there were any sign-on fees or third party fees involved," he said.

"That's probably the base level of auditing. What we're going to do moving forward is develop a framework that allows us to dig a little bit deeper than that, around assessing financial statements and those types of things.

"It's definitely on the radar because people think it's impossible to police. But it's not. Especially as we become more of a cashless society, it's going to be a lot easier to trace."