WAGGA City Wanderers won't return to the field until September, at the earliest.
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The ACT Government's decision to extend its lockdown for a further two weeks has put Canberra-based competitions in doubt.
The Wanderers' senior teams still four games to play to complete their home and away seasons in Capital Football but the snap lockdown has now cost them three weeks, at a minimum.
Wagga City Wanderers director Brendan Flanagan said the club is keen to complete the season should it recommence.
"One hundred per cent. I just don't know that it will happen," Flanagan said.
"We respect the decisions that are being made. At the end of the day a game of football is a game of football. We're talking about people's lives. And scarily this strain affects all the population and particularly young people and the majority of our club is young."
Capital Football has suspended all football activity until 5pm on Thursday, September 2, in line with the ACT lockdown.
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The entire of NSW is now in lockdown as well, adding a further obstacle to the resumption of the NPL and NPL Two seasons.
The Wanderers had planned to keep training until the whole of regional NSW was put into lockdown just two days after Canberra was.
"If we can keep training, we'll keep training. We were going to keep training when they went into lockdown but then we went into lockdown," Flanagan said.
"Our biggest problem is that we've got two ends of the barrel to face off to, which is Canberra being in lockdown and then us coming out of lockdown as well. To be honest, I think Canberra is more likely to come out of lockdown than us the way the numbers are going at the moment."
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