Pat Lam said he hopes his side will not be called up to play Exeter Chiefs in the Gallagher Premiership final next Saturday but says his Bristol Bears side will be ready if called upon.
Meaning the longest season in history is not over just yet.
"We want Wasps and Exeter to play the game, they thoroughly deserve to be there. That’s the final that should happen," the Bristol director of rugby said.
"But the world we live in with Covid, and I felt sorry for Sale as well. We just don’t know."
Bristol Bears, who beat Toulon 32-19 in the Challenge Cup final on Friday night, could still be on for a European and domestic double having been placed on standby to potentially play in the Premiership final despite being knocked out of the play-offs on Saturday at the hands of Wasps, losing 47-24 at the Ricoh Arena.
However the Coventry-based side have since been rocked by positive Covid-19 tests, putting their place in the final at doubt following the situation which unfolded at Sale Sharks a week earlier when the club had 27 positive cases in the space of seven days after the virus spread through the camp.
Four players and three members of staff members at Wasps recorded positive results for the virus following the scheduled testing day on Tuesday (October 13) and the club immediately halted training for the remainder of the week after learning the results on Wednesday.
Wasps hope to have contained the outbreak, with it being widely reported the four positive player cases are young academy players who share a house togather.
Wasps players will undergo an extra round of Covid-19 testing on Saturday and the picture as to whether they can play in the final will become clear by Monday at the latest. A raft of positive cases could see them forfeit the fixture.
The protocol for the next best place side to compete the final, should a qualified club not be able to field a side because of Covid-19, was agreed upon in August with every Premiership club unanimously agreeing to it. It was then also ratified by the RFU and Professional Game Board.
Lam continued: "We have been told to be ready.
"It is one of those things if we are told we are in, we will get everyone together and just do it.
"It is just the world we live in at the moment, things change all the time.
"But for us we certainly hope Wasps make it through and we certainly hope Exeter make it through."
Exeter play Racing 92 today in the final of the European Heineken Champions Cup in their first visit to the final.
