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With Group 10's status is seemingly in doubt, the 2020 Wallerawang Landscaping Cup competition needs only an approval from the government to pencil in a season start date with a draft draw already finalised.
If Linore Zamparini's top flight league does happen to hold off until 2021, there'll be a host of talented rugby league players looking for teams to join this winter... that's where Dallas Booth comes in.
The Wallerawang Landscaping Cup president is waiting on the outcome of Group 10's Wednesday meeting and after that, will start to look at ways in which he can incorporate new players into his competition without breaking too many moral codes.
"If Group 10 doesn't go ahead there will be players filtered down but we need to be careful we don't reject players who have been there all season," Booth said.
What the bush footy icon means is simple... you can't have five Group 10 blokes rocking up a week before the season starts and pushing aside a handful of loyal players who have been with the club for yonks.
"It would make for a strong competition this season but what would it do for the future?," he said.
"The guys who lose their spots to new players might lose interest. I understand the appeal for it but we've just got to be careful."
And it's not as if Booth needs to numbers from Group 10 this season as he's extremely optimistic about the looming winter of bush footy.
"We've got very high hopes," he said.
"Blackheath unfortunately won't be able to field a side but the other seven teams are very keen.
"The beauty of our competition is that we don't need to throw the big money around. We don't have that burden of having to pay players."
If there is a pathway paved from Group 10 to the Wallerawang Landscaping Cup, it's not going to be a free-for-all situation and Booth knows it would need to be policed.
"It's a decision we'll look at in the near future and we'll need to decide on what the limit will be," said.
"It's a bridge we'll probably cross next week, depending on the outcome of Group 10's meeting."
As for now, Booth's playing the waiting game. Senior sports haven't been given the green light to start training and playing yet but when that announcement lands, the Wallerawang Landscaping Cup is all systems go.
"We've been in touch with NSWRL and they're more than happy for us to go ahead," he said.
"It gives the referees something to do as well so we're more than happy to play."
In addition to being the competition's head honcho, Booth's the captain-coach of the Oberon Tigers who are one of seven teams set to take the field in 2020.
The other confirmed teams are: the defending champion CSU Mungoes, Orange Barbarians, the newly formed Orange United, the returning Kandos Waratahs, Portland Colts and the Lithgow Bears.
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