CYMS were set to play against United on Saturday for a spot in the decider against Panthers, but a seven-day lock down period enforced on the Cabonne area has put a stop to that.

Now the competition is deciding whether to push the entire schedule back a week, or pencil in a Wednesday or Thursday night meeting between the second and fourth-ranked outfit.

While neither scenario would be ideal for the league, Shea says his side will do whatever is needed.

"We're happy to play whenever the league wants us to," he said.

"We'd rather get it over and done with during the week, but we'd want to play on Wednesday instead of Thursday for the extra day to recover."

Two matches in half a week would take a toll, but it's not something his unit is unaccustomed to.

"We play in representative tournaments where we play two-three games a day," he said.

The men's finals series is also under question, something PLH vice president Nicole Riley addressed.

"The problem we have with Parkes is that they played in Orange last weekend, so they have to follow that stay-at-home order," she said.

"Playing this weekend wasn't an option for them, Bathurst Association has said no to any games. They had an Orange side play in Bathurst on Monday night, so the centre has to be deep cleaned and is closed."

One of the options presented was to cancel the preliminary finals and the teams which placed highest in the minor premiership - St Pat's in the men's and Orange United in the women's - advance to join the Lithgow Storm and Lithgow Panthers outfits who have already qualified in the grand final.

"That isn't ideal, I would like too see the preliminary finals played. I feel for CYMS because they legitimately beat Pat's and I feel that they should have the opportunity to play for that second spot," Riley said.

"St Pat's and Parkes in the men's, they are keen to play too."

While there was discussion of pushing back the grand final date from July 31, Riley said this too was not an ideal scenario and one PLH wants to avoid.

"We don't want to be pushing it back indefinitely, there are already people who have planned things around the end of season date. The further you push it back the harder it becomes, how long can you go between planned games before you say you don't play a grand final?," she said.

"For my mind you can't be putting your body through a grand final if you've had a long period off." In order to give all games the best possible chance to being played, it was decided PLH officials and delegates will reconvene on Monday and "see if anything is any clearer then".

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