The statewide lockdown in NSW was extended on Thursday morning, forcing a second consecutive round of games to be postponed due to the escalating COVID-19 situation.

Football Wagga, like everyone else, had feared the initial seven-day lockdown would be extended but had told clubs to plan for Sunday's round to go ahead, should it have ended.

Clubs' feedback was sought before extending the season to October 16-17 and Football Wagga president Tony Dobbin said they will adopt a similar approach in handling the latest COVID-19 setback.

"We held out that hope that we were playing Sunday and did advise clubs to get ready to play all the senior games on Sunday but this changes the scenario for us a bit," Dobbin said.

"We did actually in our planning have a spare weekend but this scenario is more difficult to do.

"We've already foreshadowed that we would have a general meeting of the clubs next Wednesday night. And we've already asked the clubs for options, which we've done once before, but now we have a different scenario in front of us.

"We do now have to look at what we can do to retrieve it and I guess in the back of our mind, and I was talking to a few club presidents this morning, it's been extended one week but if things don't improve there's the distinct possibility that it will get extended another week."

In extending the season three weeks, Football Wagga did have a spare weekend to use should there be another washout.

But with two weekends now gone, at least, due to the lockdown, the chances of getting a full season in are decreasing by the day.

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Dobbin says it is unlikely the grand final weekend can be pushed back any further so alternative options need to be explored.

"We've put out options before, the things we've got to look at are do we shorten the season or what we can do?" he said.

"Ground availability becomes hard. We really can't extend the season any more. We have our summer sports coming in and in our game in particular, we start to lose most of Rawlings Park complex because the cricket comes on board and they were good to us last season. Other grounds start getting used for other things and the same goes for the clubs out of town.

"We've already asked the clubs, you did it for us a couple of weeks ago, now we're after more ideas and we'll see how we go but there has to be a final point where we say that's it. How do we get there? We pick the weekend where we're going to do our grand finals, (then) how many weeks does the lockdown last that it makes it more and more unachievable."

With the lockdown ending at 12.01am on Saturday week, Football Wagga will encourage clubs to be prepared for a round as normal that weekend.

At the same time, they are mindful that the health of the community comes first.

"The reality for all of us in our sporting codes is starting to come more real, in some ways. I guess what I'm thankful for, from a personal perspective but also from the football community is that it happened today rather than on Saturday. It is good for us," he said.

"No one is jumping up and down saying it must go on, everyone's focused on the community's health. We've all got families, most of the people I know have families that have been in lockdown a lot longer than we have and certainly in my sporting area, the Sydney, Wollongong, Blue Mountains haven't had a season at all so we've been lucky."

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