GROUP Three Rugby League's management committee will meet on Thursday night to discuss the possibility of rejigging the draw to allow a spare weekend for postponed games.
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This won't impact on the starting date for the semi-finals, Group Three chairman Wayne Bridge said.
"We'll look at making one of the rounds where the clubs play each other a third time into a spare weekend,'' he said.
"We'll go from a 17 round competition-proper to 16 rounds.''
Mr Bridge said this follows the postponement of two games in the past fortnight due to wet weather and closed fields.
The Old Bar/Port City game was also postponed from last Saturday when the Old Bar Reserve was closed.
Mr Bridge said organising matches mid-week is difficult, especially when there's considerable distance between the clubs, as is the case with Wingham and Macleay and Old Bar and Port City.
Meanwhile Wingham captain-coach Mick Sullivan is waiting on word if he will be permitted to have contact with his team during the current COVID-19 restrictions.
Sullivan lives on the Central Coast, which is one of the areas locked down by the NSW government on Saturday evening. He was playing for the Tigers in the match against Forster-Tuncurry when the latest round of restrictions were announced.
He now works in the school system and intended to stay in this area during the holidays to work with the Tigers. Sullivan didn't return to the Central Coast after the match, however, he was there on June 21 and so has to follow the stay-at-home orders for a period of 14 days.
"I'm trying to get some clarification,'' Sullivan said.
He was hoping to get a COVID test this week.
"We're lacking cohesion and that's the reason I wanted to come up here and work with the team during the holidays,'' he said.
It's expected that Paul Lewis will step in as first grade coach until Sullivan is available.
The Tigers face a tough few weeks with games against Port City (home), Wauchope (home), Old Bar (away) and Macleay Valley (away).
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