The former Australian Diamonds star, whose own season with Melbourne Vixens is on hold, empathised with those who were doing it tough, and was aware of the frustration being felt by many as they await a return to sporting action.

Drawing on some of her own experiences during isolation, Thwaites insisted the netball community had a proven track of responding to challenges and encouraged central Victorians to continue to support one another through a period of great hardship.

"What I have found is that the netball community really rallies around and is so great in times of adversity," she said.

"The fact is the netball community does stick together, we adapt and we change.

"I think there have been so many great changes already that we've seen with different clubs and different uses of technology and the way people have been able to train at home by themselves, and the way we have relied on each other and helped each other out.

"In general with team sports, the fact we have that we do have that community, it's a really great thing to utilise in times of hardship.

"I think (the advice I have is) to lean on each other and to stay connected, that's the biggest thing.

"We have been talking about this at the Vixens, the teams that are going to come out of this best are going to be the ones who deal with adapting and the changing the best.

"To see this challenge, but to also see the opportunity to grow as a group and get better, I think will have us all in good stead by the end of it all."

Proof Super Netball is not immune to the economic catastrophe enveloping the country, Thwaites has only this week returned from two weeks of enforced leave, while all players have taken a 70 per cent pay cut for the next three weeks.

The 33-year-old revealed her two weeks off had been spent trying to maintain her fitness level as best possible from home.

"It was nice to be able to do a few different things, if you wanted you could do some yoga, or some boxing, or circuits, or whatever you had access to at home," she said.

"Now we are into a bit more regimented training moving into this next block.

"We are trying to take it a couple of weeks at a time because things are changing fairly quickly."

Thwaites said she was confident of a 2020 season going ahead 'in some shape or form', but could not speculate when that might be.

"Just at the moment they are looking at a few different formats, given what the restrictions might be moving forward, and the time-frame," she said.

"I think all parties involved are keen to have some sort of season, what it might look like I don't know.

"Whether that's playing a couple of games a week, or it's a normal full season, or whether we play each team once. There have even been discussions around playing a World Cup format over a longer period."

Retired from international netball since the end of last year's Constellation Cup series, Thwaites admitted the coronavirus pandemic had proved to be a distraction to any potential post-Diamonds career blues.

"I have had a few people ask me, 'have you missed it all', but I say I haven't had anything to miss yet," she said with a laugh.

"I got called back into the Diamonds for the bushfire relief game and still got to be a part of that, which was great.

"From what I've heard from some of the other girls is that the bit that hits you hard is when the team goes away and you are no longer part of it.

"That hasn't happened for me yet, and I'm not sure what the international season is going to look lie this year.

"Potentially I might not be missing anything for a while."

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