Like all rugby league, the Indigenous All Stars clash between Group 11 and Group 10 is currently on hold but there is hope the match can still be played this year.
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The fixture, the first of its kind, was scheduled to be played at Cowra's Sid Kallas Oval on April 18.
However, all community and grassroots rugby league participation was cancelled until at least May 1 last week.
The match is also expected to play second fiddle to the Group 11 and Group 10 fixtures if matches should return on time, making a reschedule tricky.
But Will Ingram, the organiser of the Group 10 side, is hopeful a place for match can be found given it means a lot to so many people.
"There was a spare round slated for representative fixture, that could be a possibility," he said.
"There's also a long weekend in June and a wet weather weekend at the end of the season."
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Those dates, of course, are all likely to change if the season returns as the boards will need to establish a new structure of their seasons with Group 10 currently set to miss out on a number of its oepning rounds while Group 11 will currently only have to reschedule to first round set down for the last weekend of April.
"It's going to be up to the executive really," Ingram said.
"I'd like to think we go ahead and have it take place on the same weekend as the Group 10 vs. Group 11 match. That's a full representative group weekend that's slated to be a bye for both comps."
If push comes to shove and both the representative game and all-Indigenous game are to be played on the same weekend, players who are selected for both would likely need to choose one or the other.
"The player can decide who they want to play for but we've got bus loads of talented blokes who could fill a spot on the Indigenous sides," he said.
"The following this game got after it was announced was massive. There was a huge push from the players, the families and all the towns involved... you'd be silly not to listen to those voices."
Group 11 has already named its senior and league tag sides for the fixture while Group 10 had planned to announce there's after the recent Bathurst Panthers Knockout.
That, like everything else, is now on hold while a new date for the game is likely to mean changes to the Group 11 squads as well.
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Jake Humphreys
Sports nut at the Central Western Daily.
Sports nut at the Central Western Daily.
