After a stop-start NAB League season, the club had hoped to play two more games against country rivals in early October, but that plan was quashed by Sunday's state government announcement that community sport can't be played until the first week of November.

"We're done,'' a disappointed Pioneers' coach Danny O'Bree said.

"Our last training session will be Tuesday night. We're having one last get together as a group to finish the season.

"The players are pretty flat. After missing out last year, they're disappointed it had to finish like this again."

Lockdown prevented the Pioneers from completing what would have been the club's most successful season since 2003 when the club qualified for the finals with a 9-9 record..

From their 11 games this year the Pioneers had a 6-5 record.

The highlight of their season was a brilliant three-week period to open the year.

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The Pioneers belted the Murray Bushrangers and the Gippsland Falcons by 10 goals and then edged out the Geelong Falcons by 14 points.

A 23-point win over the third-placed Northern Knights in what turned out to be the club's second-last game of the season was arguably the Pioneers' best four-quarter performance of the year.

"We got 11 games in, so we have to count our lucky stars that we got some games in,'' O'Bree said.

"There wasn't a lot of continuity, but we got some opportunities for our kids.

"We played more games than last year and we played more games than some other NAB League clubs did.

"The playing group was sensational in the way they stuck together throughout a really testing period. They never dropped off and gave it their all right to the end.

"Hopefully, this roadmap allows us to play more footy next year."

Several Pioneers squad members are in the mix for the AFL National Draft and Rookie Draft.

O'Bree said those players will continue to work hard on their game and fitness over the next six weeks.

"The players will still do a lot of individual sessions and we might have some small group sessions going where we can,'' he said.

"We'll support the players as much as we can through this period."

At this stage, the Pioneers' girls squad will start pre-season training on November 14, with the boys to follow a fortnight later on November 28.

Applications for the Pioneers' regional talent operations manager role close this week. Brooke Brown has vacated the position to take up the same role with Ballarat-based NAB League rival the Greater Western Victoria Rebels.

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