I was told that the round has been abandoned - and the same has happened to matches on April 21 and April 28. All because the MCDFL only have five grounds that are playable - Trentham, Avoca, Newstead and a couple of others.

There is a meeting being held next week to make a decision. Basically it boils down to either shortening the season to 11 rounds with everyone playing each other once with a bye each, playing on regardless on May 5 and bother safety regulations, or abandon the season altogether. That last option will almost certainly kill a number of clubs - especially the ones that are struggling financially.

This is downright frightening. I don't think there's a town in regional Victoria that wants to lose it's footy club. It's tantamount to murdering the town - and I would hope all 11 clubs would know that. Well maybe nine given that two of them (Rovers and Royal Park) are based in Maryborough. Avoca and Dunolly have only been in the comp a couple of years after getting out of Lexton Plains and I doubt they'd want to return there.

But if the season was abandoned - where would the players go? That's the other concern. It's too late for clubs to just jump into another competition - especially if there isn't a bye to fill. Lexton Plains has eight clubs. Central Highlands has 14. Loddon Valley has a bye to fill, but the only club location wise who could make that jump is Dunolly, and I suspect that the LVFL is a stronger comp than MCD.