As a result of the seven-day lockdown, the CHFL has moved its round seven matches originally scheduled for this Saturday to the Queen's Birthday weekend, while the BFNL has instead opted to abandon round seven completely.

Community sport is prohibited under tightened restrictions that will be in place from 11:59pm, Thursday May 27, to 11:59pm Thursday, June 3.

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Instead of immediately re-scheduling its fixtures, the BFNL decided to abandon round seven, pending further discussions with clubs.

No points or percentage will be awarded to any teams for this weekend's games.

Points previously allocated for a bye will be removed, with no further points awarded for future scheduled byes to ensure ladder integrity.

The possibility of shifting the round seven senior matches to the Queens Birthday weekend will be investigated pending discussions with clubs.

"The initial concept was to have some consistency across all our all competitions, seniors, juniors and females, which is why (we abandonded the round)," BFNL general manager Shane Anwyl told The Courier.

"We were getting some feedback from the clubs when we contacted them about contingency plans that player and official availability was going to be an issue on Queen's Birthday weekend.

"We might have found that some teams struggled with numbers so we felt the best option to be able to provide some certainty was to abandon this weekend's round across the board.

"With the senior football and netball it's still being discussed with the clubs as to whether Queen's Birthday will work for them because there's a little bit more appetite to potentially play that catch-up round."

The two leagues were wary of any potential COVID disruptions, with CHFL manager Diane Ryan telling The Courier it was a quick and easy decision to move the fixtures due to plans formulated nearly three months ago.

"It was discussed at the first club president's meeting ... if we lost a round before the Queen's Birthday weekend we'd move the round to that weekend," she said.

"Clubs were aware of it."

An alternate week will be organised for the junior interleague which was set to be played this weekend against the Colac District Football Netball League.

An announcement will be made regarding this date when decided upon.

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