Crows defender Tom Doedee remains hopeful the 2020 AFL season can be completed without the need for long-term isolation hubs. 

A worst-case scenario season model was presented to players by the AFL Players’ Association on Tuesday evening involving quarantine hubs which could see some players away from their families for 20 or 21 weeks,

Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, Doedee said the ideal scenario would involve Australian states and territories easing current restrictions on cross-border travel.

“The way that it’s moving with the borders potentially being opened up again, there’s a chance we don’t even have to worry about all this,” Doedee said. 

“We get back to training, get two-three weeks of pre-season done and then they say, ‘we’re back on for a normal season, you don’t have to worry about this hub’.

Doedee believes it would be a "pretty big ask" for anyone to be away from their family for an extended period, but he would be comfortable being placed in a hub for a shorter time frame. 

“The family side of it and the mental health side of it, that’s a long time to be quarantined in one specific area and just playing footy,” he said.

“As much as footy will be a release, you’ve got to look at the players’ family members that are away from it and you’ve got to look at the playing group that aren’t playing and their mental health. 

“You’ve got to look at the family of staff members, so there’s a lot to be done. There’s a lot of worries and concerns if we were to play that long.

“Personally, I’d be comfortable with playing if the weeks were reduced. Instead of eight weeks in a row, maybe if it was three or four weeks.”

Doedee hasn’t played a competitive football game since Round One, 2019 after undergoing a knee reconstruction for a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament.

The industry-wide shutdown has given the former Rising Star runner up time to consolidate his injury rehabilitation.

“I’m pretty comfortable once we get back then we’ll be able to get in two-three weeks of training and get used to body and contact, things like that,” Doedee said.

“It’s just a case of match sim that I missed out on. The boys had the two Marsh games and a Round One game, or a trial game for the SANFL boys that I didn’t get to be a part of.

“So for me, it’s just making sure I can get back in those training sessions, get used to being around bodies again.

“In terms of confidence in the knee though, there’s no question. It’s ready to go.”