Essendon CEO Xavier Campbell has a strange sense of confidence that the AFL 2020 season will resume sometime in July.
The AFL is committed to seeing out the 144 matches remaining this year after the league was shutdown due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Insight from the AFL has led to Campbell being confident the game will resume within four months.
"I feel relatively confident that in July we'll be back playing football, at least," Campbell has told Essendon's Working Through It podcast.
"I don't say that with any great insight or as an educated insight but I feel confident.
"I'm becoming increasingly confident based on different insight from the AFL and others, but in term of when it's really challenging to clear timeline on that because so much of that is out of the AFL's control and clearly we want to make sure we work really close with the government on those sorts of things.
Campbell talks about the different concepts the AFL are throwing up in a bid to restart the season, without crowds of course.
"Now, it's not going to be in front of crowds obviously, that's going to be a really challenging aspect for our members and our players who thrive off that but hopefully it's not too far from that.
But even these concepts like [playing games in a quarantine] hub... that was news to me a couple of days ago when it came out in the media and we've since had a high-level briefing on that as a concept.
"Again, you can't hold me on it because we just don't know because it's out of our control, but I feel relatively confident on that."