The Bombers set the pace throughout the home-and-away season with a brilliantly consistent year, racking up 15 wins and just one loss after last year's break.

The minor premiers are sweating on AFL Riverina reconsidering their surprise call to insist on a September 19 grand final deadline.

After Thursday's extension of the statewide lockdown to September 10 it's impossible to fit in even the halved finals series of two weeks.

COVID-19 and the NSW Government will have the final say but the Bombers want to be given a fighting chance at having finals when the AFL Riverina board meets again on Monday.

"It'd be devastating. All that hard work for nothing... it'd be really devastating if that happens," Moye said.

"We're holding on to that little bit of hope and hopefully we can get a finals campaign happening.

"I think everyone at Marrar has got the mindset that it's got to happen, it's just a matter of when."

The lockdown extension means teams will have had a minimum of four weeks without training together.

Moye is comfortable to go into finals with just a week's training as a team.

"I don't think it's going to be a drama to go straight into it," he said.

"We've played 16 games. We've only had a month off and we've all been doing our own stuff. It's not like we've stopped cold... we've still been putting in the work and I don't think it would be a drama.

"If they said the season's to go ahead, we'd rather do that than not play at all."

After running on Thursday night, Moye was looking forward to Friday night off and watching the footy, before another session of his own on Saturday morning.

He believes the motivation is there amongst his teammates to not let a good year go to waste, and keep training in the hope of having a game to play.

"It is a little bit harder but we've just got to stay motivated and work towards that goal of trying to win a flag," Moye said.

"I think all our boys are the same - they're doing the extras and really staying positive and trying to work towards the end of the season that we've set up."

Five of the last six Farrer League flags have been won by the minor premiers. Three of them have included Moye (Marrar in 2017 and 2018, and Temora in 2014).

The extension to the stay-at-home orders was 'shattering' from a footy point of view but he's keeping it in perspective.

"We're one of the lucky ones. We can still work. I feel for all the other people who can't... there's a lot of people worse off than we are."

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