West Coast coach Adam Simpson is open to the AFL allowing clubs to return to training sooner rather than later, even if it means five quarantined Eagles are forced to wait before joining the rest of the squad.

Premiership midfielder Jack Redden was one of the players who returned to Perth last week after spending time at home in South Australia with his family.

All five are in the midst of 14 days self-isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and could miss the chance to restart training with the rest of their teammates – something Simpson is prepared to live with for the greater good.

“We’ve got five players in quarantine and I think Fremantle have got 10, so I think we’d be willing to waiver a couple of days so we can get going,” Simpson told Channel Seven.

“We’ve got to work through all those permutations in the next few days.”

The AFL is expected to announce a return to play roadmap this week after Victoria's government eased restrictions on professional sport teams training together.

However, uncertainty remains about how and when the season restart will take shape given varying government restrictions across Australia. 

“We know every state is different, we know the stance the West Australian government has put in place at the moment (with a hard border),” Simpson said.

“We’re working really hard to try and get through that, but the health and safety of everyone is paramount and we’d love to be able to play in WA, we’d love to be able to avoid a hub situation but we just don’t know.

“We’ll just keep working through it in the next few days. Things have been changing a lot, so let’s see where we sit in a couple of days and we’ll just address it from there.”

Simpson acknowledged spending a significant amount of time away from Perth would impact on West Coast staff and players' family lives if the club was unable to restart the season by hosting some games at Optus Stadium.

“We’d have to work through that and I think we’ve got probably more kids with our team than anyone in the competition,” he said.

“I think there’s some teams out there with one or two children. I think we’ve got 15 or 16 players (with) over 30 kids, or up around the 20s in terms of players with children, so we’ve just got to deal with that.

“I’m sure there is going to be some situations where that’s really going to impact on family life. That’s also staff as well and how they deal with it.

“Like I said, we can’t really hone in on what’s going to work and what’s not going to work until we find out the facts.

“It looks like we might be able to get some decisions made in the next couple of days.”