Steve Waggott believes difficult decisions have to be made over the likelihood of resuming the 2019/20 season which should it get the green light would throw up logistical challenges to clubs.

EFL chief Rick Parry has said a call over whether the season, which is currently suspended indefinitely, will return needs to be made ‘within days’.

The Rovers CEO admits there are a number of hurdles still to come if matches are to re-start, not least ensuring the safety of players and officials needed to facilitate the behind closed doors matches.

The EFL has always stated its intention to play the season to a conclusion, but Parry says that won’t be allowed to extend beyond July 31 due to the issue of player contracts.

And Waggott said: “Things are moving at a pace and there has to come a point, and this is my personal view, of when a decision needs to be made and whether we’re going to resume or not.

“There are many different permutations and at the moment it’s about waiting to see what comes out from the discussions between football authorities, the Government and medical advice on when we could actually restart.”

The EFL has stressed that a testing programme for all players and officials must be set up before any matches could be played.

Tony Mowbray has questioned how the game could resume as the country continues to observe social distancing, but Championship clubs are thought to be in favour of completing the season if at all possible, despite the logistical challenges it presents.

“The conversations at the minute are logistically, in the current environment, how do you run a football game? How do you travel to an away game? Where do you eat? How do you socially distance? These are all the things we hear every day from the Government,” Waggott added.

“There are lots of logistical issues to look through but we’ll have to wait for decisions to be made at the right time, not putting pressure on the frontline services that have been stretched to the limit and done an absolutely fantastic job for all of us in society during this crisis.

“How do we make sure it’s safe for the players and for the officials and anyone else who will be attending games to enable us to play?

“Medical advice has risen right to the top pf the pile, as well as what’s being discussed at length with the Government in terms of testing. The testing, and how that’s applied, will be key to whether or not we can create a safe environment for all the players, participants, officials, who may be able to get in to the stadium while we play these last nine fixtures.”

Although the idea of neutral venues has been suggested in the Premier League, the EFL would want to stick to the usual scheduling where possible, even behind closed doors.

And while the number of people inside grounds would be significantly reduced, that wouldn’t be without its challenges, according to Waggott.

“I think it will bring extremely difficult challenges. You think of two squads of 25 players, two coaching squads of anywhere between 10 and 15 staff, other officials, you already have 100 people in the tunnel before you start,” he explained.

“If you go in to too much detail it starts to drive you slightly mad, what about the retrieval of balls from the stands if there are no fans? How is the ball sanitised? It goes on, and there are a lot of different things.

“It’s going to be very difficult to put a game on until we get to  a point where if you can at all say they are looking more positive and the strain on the NHS and other services we need as a football club in terms of medical support, police support, how do you steward behind closed doors, we have to look at all those details before a decision is made.”