The Central Western Daily contacted all eight Group 10 clubs in the lead-up to Monday's meeting with the Group 10 board.

The Group 10 board met on Wednesday night and discussed a one-round-plus-finals-series competition for 2020, following the postponement of the season when the coronavirus broke-out at the end of February.

NSWRL chief executive Dave Trodden last week rubber stamped a July 18 start for bush competitions and Group 10 is planning to resume on that date, but McLeish says throwing all clubs in the same boat simply isn't fair.

"It's horses for courses," McLeish said with a shortened premiership not necessarily the right option for all clubs.

"If five or six strong clubs that can manage it want to play and can, then let the footy play.

"The problem is towns of our size or smaller."

Another of the Group's small towns, Blayney president Damon Taylor said on Wednesday it'd be hard for the Bears to be part of a premiership if no crowds were involved.

He said right now, despite some restrictions being lifted, there's more important things than football.

"If we couldn't get a crowd to the footy how are we going to fund the season?," he said.

"It's hard for a small-town club like us."

McLeish said the Cowra club would support any decision Group 10 and its clubs made and getting footy back on the calendar in 2020 was the swoopers' priority.

But he warned those making the call not to get too far ahead of themselves.

"We maintained that getting footy on the field is our main goal. Our concerns is what we're able to do, rather than what we want to do," McLeish added.

"Like everyone else, we're sitting and waiting to see what happens."

That wait-and-see approach is one shared by all clubs.

St Pat's boss Graham Ward acknowledged "different clubs are in different positions" with the current social lockdown impacting a lot of sponsors.

He said if some Group 10 clubs didn't see a shortened campaign as feasible, then St Pat's would be open to playing in a combined competition with Group 11, if the Western Rams division's other major competition also had some clubs pull out.

It's believed both Nyngan and Narromine are leaning towards not playing in a 2020 Group 11 competition.

Ward said all options should be on the table at this point in the process, with two-and-a-half months until a ball can be kicked this season.