Wilson said East Point was totally committed to playing and had been right through the COVID-19 lockdown.

He believes the clubs owe it to the whole football community to get a competition up and running in 2020.

Wilson, who has overseen East Point's break-through 2018 and 2019 senior foootball premierships, said the BFNL administration, led by chairman Adrian Bettio, had done a great job through a difficult time to give the league every chance of playing.

Wilson says after so much negativity about the immediate future of the game across the board, it was now time have some positivity and give the season the green light.

If it went ahead under existing restrictions, people attending game would have to gather is separate groups of 10 after the State Government reduced this number from 20 in an announcement on Saturday.

The BFNL has scheduled a meeting for Tuesday night - three days ahead of the date it had set for a decision of the season.

Wilson said time was not an issue when it came to fitting in a season.

He said he saw an 11-round home and away season, plus finals - the format put on the table by the BFNL early in the lockdown as the minimum requirement for a premiership competition - as perfect.

The Roos' leader said it was actually fairer than the regular structure given all clubs would play each other once.

The BFNL's traditional format of 16 games, plus two byes, is always compromised as each of the 11 clubs play some rivals once and others twice.

Wilson believes a BFNL season had the potential to be one out of the box with bigger than usual crowds.

He said the sporting public was craving to see live action and he could see the community flocking to fixtures.

Wilson said with crowd restrictions for AFL games, the BFNL might help satisfy the public appetite for going to the football.

Wilson does not agree that playing will bring financial run to clubs.

He believes that excitement of having football back will see a flurry of support from sponsors and members, in addition to his optimism on bigger crowds.

He said with regard to player payments, clubs could make their own call on how much they paid if anything at all.

Wilson said there was never any compulsion to pay out the full salary cap in any year.

"In the end you have to look after your own interests."

Wilson said he would not like to see any clubs sitting out the year if the rest of the competition went ahead.

"I'd have real fears for a clubs to get back," he said.