Caledonian Braves boss Ricky Waddell would have preferred the Lowland League to continue this season, but understands that a difficult decision had to be made to call the season.
It looks like Kelty Hearts will be declared winners in a points per game system, enabling a play-off to the rest of the Scottish football pyramid to continue.
Waddell says a reluctance to commit to testing would have made it very difficult to continue playing, and concedes that Lowland League bosses were put in a difficult position.
But for admittedly selfish reasons, Waddell wanted to try and soldier on.
He said: "It's looking that way, that it's going to be called and with an average points per game.
"There's no official word out yet that it's happened, but I know they had asked the clubs for their opinion on that scenario.
"For me, as the coach and the manager of the club, I would still liked to get the guys back, probably for selfish reasons, but it has been 12 weeks we've been off, so it would have been good to get them back in, do a bit of training and finish the season, or the half-season.
"I do understand the circumstances as well, they need to make a decision, and I think the Lowland League has been put in a position where it's been quite difficult to make any decisions.
"We weren't prepared to do the PCR testing, it was going to cost too much, but at the same time we're linked closely to the SPFL due to the fact that one club could potentially get promotion to that.
"With regards to Kelty, I think they are well deserved winners if it does get decided like that so hopefully they get the opportunity to go and play in the play-offs.
"I can say I'm a bit disappointed that we're not going to get the chance to come back and train and play, and finish at least a couple of games, but if it does get called like that it means we can move forward."
Waddell hopes that clubs and authorities can learn lessons from this season, with regards to how decisions are made and how things are done.
He said: "It was great that we got going in the first place, that we got that exemption to play, and that was good and clubs were trying their best, but it was far from ideal from every perspective.
"Even in pre-season, my squad was very much a close-knitted squad, they loved the changing room, and that got taken away from us.
"You could say that about any club, but I think especially ourselves, because we had a really good changing room, the boys were really close, so to have to come back to training just after the summer last year, under the parameters where you're not really allowed to mix other than on the park, it became quite difficult and I did see it in my players.
"That had an effect on them, it wasn't quite the same vibe. You're trying to create an atmosphere and a good environment, but I could see that it wasn't quite right.
"I think the whole thing, the whole feeling about football and the pandemic and all that, took its toll on a lot of different people and clubs in different ways.
"It has probably highlighted weaknesses in every type of scenario, and certainly in Scottish football, it has probably highlighted a weakness in that, not in the way its run, but the system it uses to get decisions over the line, with the SPFL, members organisation, SFA, Lowland League, all different organisations under the one kind of banner, if you like.
"It has been a difficult season, but one in which we'll try and learn from, hopefully we'll just move on and get back to normality for next year."
For Waddell, it's now a case of looking to the future and to what needs to be done to improve Braves' chances of competing for honours.
"We didn't have a brilliant start to the season, but we were getting there, so I had high hopes for the season and I still feel that we could have done that, but it's probably the case that we need to draw a line under that and move forward to what's next," he said.
"It means we can sit down, look at what things are going to look like for the club.
"I think it has been a transitional period, getting the club up and running and things like that, we need to sit down and say 'this is what the club needs', exactly like this, and then plan towards the next year to three years, to five years. I'd say it's a good idea to do that."
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