Chairman Linore Zamparini said the board is looking ahead to the next season and is planning dates for knockouts and round one, which it's hoped will give clubs the confidence to start sorting out their playing rosters now and begin pre-season training as early as November.

The 2020 Group 10 season was cancelled on the back of COVID-19 and although Zamparini admits it's likely a 2021 kick-off will occur amid the pandemic there's now enough knowledge of the situation to run a competition safely.

At this stage we'll be moving forward as business as usual," he said, the Group 10 AGM marked down for the November 8.

"The competition will start at the end of March or start of April and we'll move forward from there.

"It will obviously depend on the guidance of government and health authorities at the time, but we have to start planning now.

"Nothing happens overnight in this game. You have to plan, and that's why we have to be positive in our planning.

"Clubs aren't going to be sitting back and waiting. At every club, there were lots of players borrowed out all over the place, they've got to come back and clubs can move forward."

Zamparini was hopeful the Group's 2020 board - Peter McDonald, Graeme Osborne, Graham Ward, Gary Goldsmith, Andrew Blimka, Wayne Boyd, Adam Hornby and Zamparini - would all be reinstated ahead of the new season.

"They put their hand up this year and while it was a non-event on the field we've been just as busy off it," he added.