The CWRU board met on Tuesday night, the same evening that Group 11 Rugby League clubs voted to cancel senior competitions for the year, and opted to delay its decision instead of cancelling.

Just 12 hours later, Acting Sports Minister Geoff Lee announced community sport could return from July 1, but Tink said the board wouldn't reconvene any earlier.

"July 18 was the start date we'd initially set and after the announcement we're another step closer to that," he said on Wednesday.

Tink said he'd give clubs a few days to look over restrictions and "let the dust settle" and begin calling around next week to gauge the interest of all 28 CWRU clubs in playing in 2020 before reconvening in three weeks, with some clubs on the fence about playing at all this year.

Clubs have begun non-contact training in groups of 10, and can only begin full contact from July 1, while other restrictions will be in force.

"A number of clubs said they'd be prepared to play with restrictions, but the board's made the decision to wait and I'm happy we've made that decision," he said on Wednesday.

"We're glad the restrictions have been lifted and we're keen to give clubs the opportunity to play rugby."

Last week, all 28 senior clubs were surveyed to see if they would be interested in forging ahead with a shortened 2020 season should approval from the state government come.

Tink said several clubs "reported their frustration" ahead of Tuesday's meeting with the lack of information before the announcement and were eager for certainty, which they now have a bit more of.

He admitted not all of the member clubs are interested in 2020 competitions should they go ahead, but that enough interest was shown to delay a final decision until June 26.

"At this stage we are encouraging our clubs to keep training as if they will be playing rugby this year," Tink said on Tuesday night.

"We have some clubs that are not overly keen to play at this stage, but there are also clubs that are extremely keen to play. We wouldn't be doing our duty as a board if we did not explore every opportunity to give those people a chance to play.

"We understand that this may cause frustration, however, this decision has been made to give our rugby community every opportunity available to participate and support rugby in 2020."

Leagues across the country were expecting news last week on senior sport, but on Tuesday night Tink said the line had to be drawn after which is was too late to play.

The July 1 date gives the league much more certainty, but clubs have to wait until June 26 to find out what form the competition will take in 2020.