ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA - JULY 01: Jack Riewoldt of the Tigers warms up before the round 15 AFL match between the Port Adelaide Power and the Richmond Tigers at Adelaide Oval on July 1, 2016 in Adelaide, Australia. (Photo by Morne de Klerk/Getty Images)
Richmond star forward Jack Riewoldt is struggling to believe that any form of sport, AFL included, will go ahead in 2020.
On Wednesday morning, Sports Minster Martin Pakula confirmed on SEN Whateley that no return date for the AFL has been discussed yet. The coronavirus pandemic has forced the AFL and many other sports into complete lockdown.
Riewoldt believes many sports will look different on the other side of this health crisis.
"I've been really positive about starting footy but I'm starting to think, the community announcements that are coming through and the way the health professionals are speaking, I'm really starting to doubt whether we're going to see sport at all this year," Riewoldt told the Balls and Bumpers Podcast.
"To come through the other side, the sporting landscape in Australia and in the world is going to look a lot, lot different to what it did in 2019.
"The NRL are talking about playing on 28th of May. I suppose that's ludicrous but it's just what sports are doing at the moment, they're on their knees."
Riewoldt admits he is becoming frustrated with the "holding pattern" he and many others are facing in quarantine.
"I reckon I've probably got two weeks left in me of just what the current situation is," Riewoldt said.
"I've switched off from footy completely. I'm doing my program, I'm training and then I'm not watching any of the replays, I'm trying to keep myself busy.
"There's a frustration and it's building up in everyone, footballers, normal people that work and do whatever they do. It's just at the moment we're in a holding pattern.
"At the moment we're really just in no man's land. It really is frustrating."