MORTON boss Anton McElhone is adamant that the Championship should continue as the future of the season hangs in the balance.

SFA chief executive Ian Maxwell contacted all Championship clubs on Friday night asking if they would consider postponing the current season after a rise in Covid-19 cases across the country.

The governing body has asked for responses to be given by the close of play today.

McElhone believes that clubs across the division are doing all they can to see the campaign out as safely as possible and hopes the season isn't stopped temporarily like Leagues One and Two.

He told the Tele: “I would like to hope that we can continue the season, all the clubs are doing the right thing in Covid testing.

“They’re taking all the necessary precautions and following all the protocols that are required.

“We’re trying to do everything that we can because this is our livelihoods, we want the games to go ahead.

“Hopefully we can continue, but that’s out of our hands, we can only look after what we do at the club.

"We’ve shown in the last couple of weeks with what’s happened [the Covid-19 outbreak] and we’ve come out of it and dealt with it well.

“We’ve obviously lost a lot of players but we’ve dealt with it in the correct way internally to make us better going forward.

“I’d like to think that everybody would want to continue because at the end of the day, everybody is trying to do the right things, everybody has got a good enough size of squad.

“We were obviously five or six players short on Friday night, but they’ll be back next week.”

McElhone says it's important to give fans something to look forward to in the second lockdown and is confident chairman Crawford Rae will want to continue the season as well.

He said: “We’re all doing the right things, if it was every week that games were getting cancelled then I’d understand.

“But at the moment, we’ve got to give the league every chance with the news of vaccinations coming out.

“I’ve got total confidence in the chairman to make the right decision and hopefully he wants us to continue to play.

“I think for the people of Inverclyde, it means so much for the players and most importantly the fans that there is football still going on.

“We need some light at the end of the tunnel and personally, I would be more than happy for the club to back that.”