Allansford's footballers hit the track this week and the club's netballers will return to the court next week.
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A grade and 15 and under coach Bridget Foster said all grades would return to training with sessions to be held over three nights - Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
A senior team and junior team will train each night.
The Warrnambool and District league club has two courts.
"We had a meeting last week with Ben (senior football coach Ben Price) myself and the committee," Foster said.
"We decided we were going to train just to get people back and seeing each other."
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We decided we were going to train just to get people back and seeing each other.
- Bridget Foster
From Monday, netball teams will be allowed to train outdoors in groups of up to 20 people plus a coach. Currently groups can have up to 10 people and a coach.
Training must continue to be non-contact and there must be no match-play.
Netball Victoria is advocating for competition netball to return in mid-July.
Foster said despite being able to have more girls train together, the club will stick to groups of 10 per court for now.
She said the club didn't want too many people coming and going and it was easier to clean up after one session rather than numerous sessions held on the same night.
Foster said top-grade training would be different to usual because of the no-contact protocol.
"It's harder for A grade, a lot of training is contact," she said.
The Cats leader said training - recommended to be one-hour long - would involve basic passing drills and fitness.
Allansford's netball coaches and players were briefed on the return to community netball training requirements this week at online meetings.
The protocols include maintaining 1.5-metre physical distancing, minimising the use of shared equipment, no bibs and balls must be sanitised both prior to and after each group.
Participants are not to arrive more than 15-minutes prior to training and must depart within 10-minutes of its completion.
Spectators are also not permitted with parent/guardians allowed to drop off and collect children from a venue.
Foster said she could see why some other teams may not bother to return to training yet because of the requirements.
But for her it will be a chance to catch up will some of her closest friends who she hasn't seen in weeks.
She believes there's value in training even if the WDFNL season doesn't go ahead.
"Even just training for a couple of months, at least we'll have a bit of of a head start on keeping these players around next season," she said.
The Cats mentor still holds out hope for a season but believes it will difficult for players to adjust.
"If we can't train with contact we're not going to be well prepared for playing games," she said.
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