IMAGINE walking out onto the field for your 200th game.

The team song blares over the PA system, you run up the race and go through the banner with your teammates.

You take a moment to suck in every bit of atmosphere and store it for reflection later.

Except, there is no atmosphere, with no fans allowed to enter stadiums.

It could all change at the drop of a hat thanks to coronavirus, but for Brisbane midfielder Mitch Robinson that's a reality at the moment.

"I'm not too far off retiring and I've got a couple of years left," Robinson told AFL.com.au.

"I think I've got my 200th game in round nine and I'd like to get that out of the way.

"I reckon it would be something to talk about, especially when I finish up my career."

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Robinson admits it's not an ideal situation for anyone, but he'd much rather play in front of no one, than not play at all.

"We've just done a gruelling pre-season and as a player I couldn't imagine waiting another four weeks until that ban is uplifted," Robinson said.

Robinson has been the poster boy of having a pathway ready when his football mortality eventually calls, so it's not a time of panic for the tough Lion.

It certainly will serve as a wake-up call for some of the first-year players, where football is "all they know".

 "This is perfect opportunity if things are delayed for players to see what outside footy looks like," Robinson said.

"I don't know how much they can do – they'll probably do corporate stuff.

"Dayne Zorko, he's got the media stuff post-footy, but he's a captain, bubbly and loves footy and we've got a lot of footy heads at our club and they'll probably struggle.

"For me it'll be doing interviews, doing my podcast and talking about what's happened so it's perfect."

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The past seven days have been bizarre for Robinson and his teammates.

The Lions played Carlton in a Marsh Community Series game in front of fans as normal, but on Tuesday they headed to a Victorian family day where thousands of fans crammed onto an indoor basketball court.

At that stage, the Lions had told their players to use hand sanitiser and shaking hands was fine.

By Wednesday, the club emailed sponsors and ticket holders for that evening's season launch to put out the message for those who were under the weather to stay away and for hand shaking to stop.

"You don’t have to shake their hands, they all know you're not being rude," Robinson said.

"It's kind of Australian to shake hands, it's even been awkward shaking hands."

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It started to turn from being vigilant to a "real thing" for Robinson once Brisbane's general manager of football David Noble sat the playing group down to discuss some rules and regulations ahead of the four-day break the players were set to have.

Robinson had planned to head to the Australian Grand Prix, which was then called off.

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Players were also told to avoid heading to festivals or nightclubs.

The landscape has become unfamiliar territory for all, but until the future becomes clearer, Robinson is just going to keep an eye across Twitter. 

Meanwhile, the Lions completed their 2020 AFL Fantasy Draft on Monday.

Jarrod Berry, Alex Witherden, Sam Skinner and Ryan Lester were just some of the names taking part.

Harris Andrews whipped out a bowtie as the commissioner, but hopefully he's remembered to actually circulate the format of the draft unlike AFL.com.au commissioner Ben Sutton.