Dodd’s dilemma – who to play for?

But there is one thing he is certain about.

Because of Covid-19, if the Green Lions’ season was starting now they could forget about their captain.

In a wide ranging interview for the Guernsey Press, he admitted that the virus pandemic remains a big issue for him.

‘I just wouldn’t go now. If they said the [Isthmian] season starts tomorrow, I wouldn’t go – 100 per cent,’ Dodd said.

‘You’ve got to think of the whole island. You can’t risk bringing that in.’

As for where he might play domestically should there be no GFC action?

‘I’ve had quite a few messages [about signing].

‘I’m a bit stuck. Obviously, everybody knows I’m a Saints man and I’d love to play for Saints.

‘My problem is I don’t want to go to a team where I don’t know if I’m going to be there for five games, 10 games. But I don’t want to go in and stop, say, an U18 coming through,’ he said while name-checking prospect Brad O’Regan.

‘I don’t think it is fair and it could put someone off playing football.

‘I don’t want to be responsible for that.’

Who then? Virtually all the clubs have been after him.

‘It could be one which doesn’t have a youth team [Bels or Manzur] or Rangers, who look like they need help.’

But, that said, he is not ruling out Saints and Rangers is tempting.

‘I need to be playing, because in an Island Games year we need to be playing football. We can’t afford to mess around.

‘It would have been interesting if we had all got together and decided on clubs. I like the draft idea. That would have been interesting.

‘If the [GFC] season was completely out, I’d already be signed for Saints because I could commit the whole season, help the youth come through.’

The likelihood that the delay will be a few months lends him to a short-term challenge elsewhere.

‘That’s where I’m thinking,’ he admitted.

‘There is no rush, and that’s why I have let it lie.’