Player payments were the last thing to blow out at State League clubs, but it may be trimmed for the first time in a number of years to adapt to the changing times.

North Launceston president Thane Brady admitted the club will be forced to go through an exercise to adjust its existence in the TSL.

"I don't think football will be back to normal, nor will our community, nor will our business, to what we saw as normal still for many more years to come," Brady said.

"Our football will have to adjust and run on the smell of an oily rag. So, everybody will have to take a haircut.

"Everything and everyone associated with the game.

"The costs to run our football program continues to increase and it's not been player payments at our club.

"It's just the footballs, your merchandise, socks, shorts, jumpers, insurance, ground hire, umpire fees, association fees are all of the things that have kept rising."

TSL clubs had agreed to suspend payments for two months from AFL Tasmania for April and May once the season was postponed over the outbreak of coronavirus.

Already 30 per cent of their total grant funding had been handed out for this year.

The suspended cash had been set aside for their AFL development grant, which comprises of about 20 per cent of their income and is spent to meet the key performance indicators to grow the game for AFL Tasmania.

"It really comes in one door and out the other. So we're not absolutely reliant on it to survive," Brady said.

But AFL Tasmania has indicated to clubs that their cash flows from their operations will likely be reviewed at some point of time should the competition resume.

North Launceston regardless has set up its structure now to "feed ourselves" in an uncertain season that Brady called a "moving target".

"We are still all hoping we can get some sort of competition running, but really nobody can see with any certainty whether that is going to occur," he said.

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AFL Tasmania already is prepared for the possibilities of no football at all this year throughout the state.

Behind the economic concern alone is how TSL clubs could inadvertently spread coronavirus from one end of the state to the other.

But Brady feels there is a positive to come out of the crisis. He has called for a full review from the ground up.

"I am not sure we are brave enough to tackle it or if we have the will to do it," he said.

Some of the points Brady indicated should be investigated include a uniformed approach to all junior associations, different age groups and umpiring rules that can vary in different leagues.

"We have put up many ideas over the past 10 years about restructuring and no one else wants to do it. It's all too hard, but this is the opportunity to do it," he said.

North Launceston is a club that has advocated for a number of years to help NTFA clubs restructure their junior programs.

Brady has been concerned for both division one and two premiers Hillwood and Lilydale that are both located outside population centres.

"They may not survive in the long-term," he said.

But with less money now inevitable in the game, North Launceston is not immune to their much of the issues.

The TSLW and under-18 programs have cost the club $56,000 last year. Buses alone for under-aged players costs $1,000 for every Hobart trip.

Attempts to enter the NTFA under-18s to save cash have been unsuccessful while the Bombers remain committed to the State League.

"What we have found it would be extremely difficult from a financial point of view too," Brady said.

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