East Kilbride manager Stevie Aitken is furious lower league clubs haven't been given the option to test players in a bid to play on during the pandemic - and fears their season is now over.
The Scottish Premiership and Championship will continue to play, as long as they adhere to the current testing regime.
But lower league clubs haven't been given that option and Aitken is fuming clubs below tier two in Scotland weren't consulted or offered a way to keep playing on, especially given the fact clubs were handed grants as part of an emergency Scottish Government funding package of £55m just before Christmas.
And with players unable to play or train until February 1 at the earliest, the former Dumbarton gaffer reckons the final whistle may have blown on the 2020/21 season.
Aitken, whose side sit third in the Lowland League and six points off leaders Kelty with a game in hand, said: "It's three weeks initially, but my fear is once you stop something it's not as easy to start it up again.
"Are we going to start back?
"That decision might be taken out of our hands.
"Come end of the month, start of February, if they do allow us back, we won't have trained so we won't be playing games straight away.
"And how are we going to get all of these fixtures in?
"We've still got four games to play before we are at the halfway stage - we've still got 20 games to play.
"Is it going to be three/four games a week?
"I think there's questions that need to be answered on why the decision was made without consulting teams?
"Why was it done so quickly?
"Clubs got grants recently, so can we not start testing players on a weekly basis to keep us playing until they get on top of the pandemic?
"I think it's strange that we've been affected and other divisions higher up haven't.
"We understand there is a bigger issue here, but to cancel lower league football and not get an opportunity to try and test players like the Championship are doing is really disappointing.
"We just have to accept it but, hopefully, in three weeks time we can get back training."
EK players will meet tonight for the last time before the suspension kicks in at midnight.
It comes off the back of the news 13 players plus Celtic boss Neil Lennon and assistant John Kennedy have been ordered into self isolation after their Dubai training camp fiasco.
Defender Christopher Jullien tested positive for Covid and the Hoops face Hibernian tonight with a hugely depleted side.
Aitken added: "We've put so much effort into it to follow the rules.
"Over the weekend, the momentum has gathered with Lowland League clubs writing in looking for cancellations and then the Celtic issue as well.
"It's all happened at the one time and that's forced their hand to make the decision.
"We'll get the players in tonight, have a quick chat with them and we'll get them monitored.
"They'll keep themselves ticking over, get training plans and we'll see what happens."
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