While the Dubbo Demons hope they can have a women's side just get on the park again, the 2019 title-winning coach is hoping an AFL Central West women's campaign this year can live up to her expectations.
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Bathurst Giants coach Liz Kennedy would love for her squad to get the chance to defend their premiership this year, but her main hope is that season 2020 isn't "some half-hearted competition."
AFL NSW-ACT said that over the next week it will work with those leagues under its banner - including AFLCW - to "finalise many league-specific operational decisions, including season length, fixtures, bylaws and financials".
That will provide some clarity for teams throughout the competition but there are still a host of unknowns, a main one being senior community sport has still not been rubber stamped for a resumption from the coronavirus shutdown by the state government.
"The girls are itching to get back out there, but it's still an unknown," Kennedy said.
"The juniors are full-on, they went from nothing to knowing when they can start whereas for us a couple of weeks ago it was we can start training from the first of June, but no start date.
"It's tough with the lack of information, I suppose. I'm not sure when we are going to start, if we are going to start.
"But then again I don't want some half-hearted competition either, that's male and female. I'm not sure how the other clubs are looking."
If the senior AFLCW competitions do go ahead, it will be the third consecutive year of the Bathurst Giants fielding a women's side.
It's also a season that is expected to see the Dubbo Demons women return to the field after they failed to form a side in 2019.
The Demons had won the women's premiership in 2018.
Kennedy hopes all clubs get to have their men and women play together, as well.
"It needs to be an even competition, not we play one team once and another team three times," she said.
"How they are going to align the women's competition with the men's competition, that's the other issue I have because we want to be there to watch our men. We don't want to be playing at different towns.
"It's a logistical nightmare for everyone, but whatever happens, happens. We will put a team on the paddock every week and see how we go."
