Two months after the season was due to start, Orange Tigers finally have a senior women's coach.
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The side's 2018 mentor Ben Cullis has taken the reigns of the side just as the Tigers head back onto the training track for their second preseason of 2020.
Central West AFL sides have been allowed to resume training in groups of 10, with the Tigers hitting the track last week for their first sessions since competitions across the country were shut down in March.
Cullis, who's also a former president of the club, said he'd been refreshed by time off both football and work slowing down due to coronavirus.
"It's good, I've enjoyed the break," he said.
"They were still looking for a coach so I thought I'd jump back into it."
The Tigers fell just short of the grand final in 2019, and while the group was determined to make the decider in 2020 Cullis said coronavirus had changed perspectives.
While playing good football is still something he wants his squad to achieve, he said goals for the season were starting small.
"Given everything which has gone on this year, we just want to get on the field for a game," he said.
"If there's some sort of finals we definitely want to get there but we just want to play footy at this stage.
"We're going to use this time to look towards getting up in 2021."
He said it'd been strange coming back to the club after a few months away, but said he was taking it "like it's the first session of preseason training".
"The only difference is we might have a game in four weeks or six weeks so it'll be weird if we're playing our first game in the middle or end of July," Cullis said.
The AFLCW is still no closer to a start date.
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