The timing of Saturday afternoon's announcement of a week-long lockdown across NSW was something of a surprise, given the government's stated preference as late as Friday was to continue to bring in restrictions only for affected Local Government Areas.

At the same time, it was almost inevitable that a shutdown was coming, and AFL officials say 'everything is on the table' now in the hope of completing a season.

Lenon, whose Bombers finished minor premiers and were planning on next weekend off anyway, hopes the first contingency is for a resumption as soon as possible, believing a five-team finals is the fairest outcome.

"When we get out of lockdown, who knows? Whether they restructure the finals, I'm not sure, but if it was me running the show, I'd be playing finals on Sunday if the lockdown's lifted on Saturday," Lenon said.

"We should know by Thursday or Friday whether or not we're coming out of lockdown (on Saturday) and I couldn't see any reason why you couldn't play the finals on the Sunday."

Lenon said he'd feel for the fifth-placed Northern Jets if they were to have a finals appearance pulled from under them by a change in format.

"You wouldn't want to be the Northern Jets and they change the top five to a top four, would you?" Lenon said.

"There's a lot to think about and they're going to have to think outside the square. There's plenty of grounds available, there's nothing wrong with playing two finals on the one day. That's what I'd be planning to do anyway.

"There's a chance they'll extend the lockdown, but we might even know by Wednesday how things are looking."

But Lenon said he's happy to entertain whatever scenarios are tossed up to complete a season.

The Jets are obviously desperate to be a part of the post-season, but coach Josh Avis' gut feel is that the dreaded COVID-19 spread might have ended the season.

He said missing finals due to a change in the format would hurt.

"That would be disappointing itself but we can't control that... if that's the way it goes, that's the way it goes. We'd have to work on it and be that much better next year," Avis said.

He remained philosophical but hopeful after their win over Coleambally on Saturday.

"(After the game) we just said, let's take it for what it is. We'll get a week off. We've got a few sore bodies so that will help us (if we don't play next weekend)," Avis said.

"I don't think it'll hurt our fitness. We've had a good tough game today, a really tough game last week, so we've done the hard yards. We'll take it as a bit of reward and if we play again, make sure we're up and ready to go. We're just being optimistic."

Avis was keeping it in perspective considering some of the scenarios that have faced other regions throughout Australia.

"We've got to look on the bright side - we've got a full home-and-away season of footy in this year," Avis said.

"Whether we get to play finals or not, at least we got something this year. We've been very lucky."

East Wagga-Kooringal coach Matt Hard pointed out that there's no blueprint for teams to follow.

"No-one's ever been in the situation before," Hard said.

His message to his players after the game was to appreciate their achievement of a top-two finish and standby for what's next.

Under a normal top five, the Hawks will play The Rock-Yerong Creek first up in the qualifying final.

The 'Pies surpassed their own expectations and hope to get their opportunity to live their dream.

"It's a bit of an unknown I suppose. Our aim was to play finals footy," TRYC co-coach Brad Aiken said after their win at Temora.

"Heath (Russell) worked it out. It's 1,460 days since The Rock's played finals footy you know. That's what we were aiming for and that's what we've achieved... but we'll just wait and see now."

Lenon said remaining focussed and prepared is all teams can do.

"The players will get an opportunity to do a bit of exercise and things like that," he said.

"That's all we talked about after the game - making sure you're doing what you can by yourself and when the season gets up and going again, you're in the best possible shape you can be."

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