Adelaide chief executive Andrew Fagan has labelled the AFL’s interstate training restrictions as “fair enough”.

South Australia and Western Australia are allowed gatherings of up to 10 people however clubs have been told to limit training groups to two people.

The AFL is determined to keep clubs on a level playing field in terms of preparation, given more than half the teams are still limited to training in pairs.

“It’s a complicated outcome and I can appreciate that,” Fagan told Triple M’s The Rush Hour.

“If they can try and get all 18 teams to start what might be the most consistent, say, four-week build into the start of the season, then I think that’s fair enough.

“I think the plan is they might start a few weeks with training up to 10, once all states are able to do that… then we move to what they’re calling Phase C when there’s a broader lifting of restrictions.

“Then we have two weeks of that before we go into the season proper.”

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AFL is being touted to return next month with the fly-in, fly-out model seemingly the preferred method for the competition if State Government restrictions permit.

“I feel as though we got a bit of traction over the last three or four days, or at least the AFL did with its discussions with the government both federally and with each of the states,” Fagan said.

“Probably been a move away from the hubs and towards a fly-in, fly-out model… but there’s still a bit of work to do in that regard.

“We expect all our interstate players back in Adelaide tonight to gear up for a recommencement in June.

“At the moment, it’s all still a bit of hope. There’s still a lot of work to be done and we expect some decisions made over the course of the next seven or eight days.”