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Punt Road Feral said:
Campbell's Creek have gone into recess in 2021 as they were looking at only fielding 8 out of the required 12 sides needed for football/netball.
I believe Dustin Martin played a few junior games for the club back in the day.

With no football or netball in 2 years it would be a herculean task to get the club up and running again whilst navigating through salary caps & points as well.
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How many of these are netball?
 
skippy99 said:
Upper Murray club Border Walwa not fielding teams this season. Hard to see the club ever re-starting.
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That's sad.

This is why the Upper Murray FL needs to have a cold hard look at itself and the future.
 

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Ardmona gone into recess due to lack of players for 2022. There no town at Ardmona other than a few farms. Too many clubs in the Shepperton area already. The available players can help fill the gaps in some nearby clubs struggling to fill reserve / junior teams.
 
Old Kenny said:
An alternative proposal was put to the league and its existing clubs last year. Essentially to merge and form one club to join the TDFL. Only one club voted in favour of the merge.
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One club showing logic. The rest holding onto the past standing on the bridge of sinking ships.
They'll need to watch out or there'll be no football in the district in 10 years' time.
 
Covid has accelerated the decline of country footy - the AFL could not give a rats arse about it, as long as they get enough “talent“ to fill their pipeline the rest is irrelevant lip service. Long serving volunteers have pulled the pin, fear of covid or the realisation that there’s more to life means they are scarce. Players that travelled a few hours every week have found other things to do. Result, clubs and leagues will die, nothing is more certain. In the words of Midnight Oil, better to die on your feet, the live on your knees
 
Two clubs to have gone into recess in recent years, Woodsdale and Oatlands, are back playing in the Oatlands District FA this season.
Woodsdale, the club that registered the all-time Tasmanian highest score of 77.29 (491) against Colebrook in 1993 along with the State record winning margin of 490 points in that game, have been in recess since around 2015.
They will be playing their home games out of Campania this season as their home ground at Woodsdale was ruled unfit for use until improvements can be made.
Apparently the club have been training at Bridgewater's Weilly Park in the off season.
Former Mt Pleasant coach Greg Dare has headed back to his original club, Oatlands, to revive the Tigers again after they went into recess pre-Covid.
A third club from the ODFA, Swansea, based on the East Coast that also went into recess pre-Covid also flagged their intentions late last year in reviving their club, were unable to garner enough players and have decided to remain on recess.

Meanwhile on the North West Coast, former NWFU/NTFL/NWFL club East Devonport, which went into recess a few years ago, have flagged serious intentions of coming out of recess and put in a submission to join the Tasmanian State League in 2023/24 as the sole North West representative club in State League football.
That would depend on whether enough young players from the Coast actually want to play elite level football any longer (currently they are directed to either Launceston or North Launceston for that purpose).
The very future of the TSL may hinge on it with at least two Southern clubs, Clarence and Glenorchy in particular proposing to exit the TSL and return to regional football after 2023 should a North Western team not be involved in the TSL from that date forward due to a perceived imbalance in the competition, only one Southern club has won a flag in the past 11 years.
 
Heardy_101 said:
That is interesting.

How does the State league fair down there?
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It struggles for relevance unfortunately.
There is a huge need for it as the gap in standard between the state league clubs and regional clubs is a yawning chasm but young players (especially in the south) are increasingly abandoning state league football in favour of playing regional football where they don't have to train as hard and in most cases make more coin.
Last week North Hobart, who used to be a powerful TFL club but have only won one flag in the past 30 years and have spent the past decade down near the bottom, faced Lindisfarne, a club that has been dominant in the past 15 years at regional level in the Southern Football League, the Demons towelled the Two Blues up by close to 100 points.
Problem for the state league is that AFL recruiters no longer view the TSL as a viable recruitment option, crowds are abysmal, there's no longer any TV coverage of it, media interest is minimal and the competition is seen as hopelessly lopsided towards the two northern clubs (Launceston and North Launceston) due to the two coastal clubs (Devonport and Burnie) pulling out and returning the NWFL several years ago, thus coastal recruits are all directed to the two Launceston-based clubs.
The three most prominant clubs in the south (Clarence, Glenorchy and North Hobart) have been struggling for some years, Glenorchy appear in huge trouble, Clarence and North are really only making up numbers.
The other two clubs, Kingborough (formerly known as Kingston) and Lauderdale aren't generally well known or popular outside of their regions, Lauderdale had recruited heavily for years trying to win a state league flag but, despite getting close several times, never got there.
Kingborough have never been successful in the state league and apart from a nice ground, have no real following, even at home anymore.
Kingborough (or Kingston) had been in the old Huon Football Association since 1967 and joined the SFL when it was founded in 1996 with moderate success.
They were brought in to replace the ailing Hobart Tigers on the back of defeating New Norfolk in the 2011 SFL Grand Final, but since then, no success.
Put simply, it's not popular with the public or the media nor younger players and is more or less seen as necessary because placing those clubs back into the various regional competitions would create a further imbalance.
Lack of money and sponsors is also a huge problem for TSL, it's viewed as totally inferior to the old TFL.
It's on borrowed time, I feel.
 
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Another Tasmanian club is on the brink.
This time, former North East Football Union and current NTFA club, Bridport Seagulls are facing going into recess following a lack of player numbers.
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Yet another club out of Northern Tasmania is in great difficulty.
Scotchtown Tigers from the Circular Head FA suffering from player and adminstration shortages.
Scotchtown is 6km south of Smithton and play their home matches at Smithton Recreation Ground.
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Heardy_101 said:
Just realised that the Riverland Independent league in SA lost a club at the start of this year - the 100+ year old Lyrup Lions FC.

Not sure if it's permanent, or if Lyrup intend to reform next year.
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It's their second season now without a team, there was a push from their community to get a team up and running this year. The league comes under the Riverland Football League jurisdiction and they were making it hard for lyrup to rejoin.
But the independents are going out on their own governance starting in 2023, so lyrup would likely be given a chance to form. This year there are only 6 teams in the competition, Cobdogla also without representation this year. I'm sure they'd be hopeful for their team in the comp next season but at this stage it'll be wait and see whether it's 6, 7 or 8 teams.
 
DBrowJ said:
It's their second season now without a team, there was a push from their community to get a team up and running this year. The league comes under the Riverland Football League jurisdiction and they were making it hard for lyrup to rejoin.
But the independents are going out on their own governance starting in 2023, so lyrup would likely be given a chance to form. This year there are only 6 teams in the competition, Cobdogla also without representation this year. I'm sure they'd be hopeful for their team in the comp next season but at this stage it'll be wait and see whether it's 6, 7 or 8 teams.
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Yeah seen that.

And apparently the folks from Moorook - Kingston are popping their heads up again as well.
 
Heardy_101 said:
Yeah seen that.

And apparently the folks from Moorook - Kingston are popping their heads up again as well.
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Yeah they were, paid off debts and all, but there last year was like 2015 I think. A very difficult job to get a team back up, and there biggest problem was having locals directly there to play. They only had 1 player who lived in Moorook for their last year.
 
Woodsdale and Oatlands made returns to the Oatlands District Football Association in central Tasmania this season after being in recess for some time.
Woodsdale went into recess after 2015 and Oatlands did likewise after 2019, Woodsdale have won one game on their return, beating Oatlands who are winless and on the bottom currently.
Woodsdale are having to play out of Kempton this year as their home ground (which is essentially a sheep paddock) was ruled not up to standard by the ODFA and AFL Tas, almost all their players aren't locals in any case.
Another club from that competition, Swansea, made attempts to reform but failed in the pre–season and remain in recess.

North West Football League club Circular Head Saints (formerly known as Smithton) returned to the competition this season after being in recess for some time. Still no word on whether East Devonport will ever come out of recess, they have made overtures about reforming to join the Tssmanian State League as the sole state league representative from the North West but lack of players might be an issue as is the possibility of the TSL collapsing due to redirection of funding from the AFL (it's in a shambolic state as it is).
 
Heardy_101 said:
No Merger with a rival or?
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No one to merge with - the sad reality is that a vast majority of bush teams have been propped up by travellers for years, covid and Putin (fuel prices) have made people reassess and they’re not coming back - this will sound outrageous but I reckon 25% of rural teams will fold / merge within 12 months - particularly in far flung regions like that one and the south west and north west
 
western royboy said:
this will sound outrageous but I reckon 25% of rural teams will fold / merge within 12 months - particularly in far flung regions like that one and the south west and north west
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Not outrageous at all. I reckon you have the percentage right but I would probably push out your date to March 2024 as next year will be telling in the future for a number of clubs, especially those that have meandered along rather aimlessly for the past 5-10 years.

I am actually trying to grab Football Records from as many different country leagues as I can from this year and 2023 as I am sure we are going to see the rationalisation of competitions in the same way that the Benalla & District FL was wound up. Golden Rivers must be in the gun with Quamby folding and Nullawil wanting out and if the Goulburn Murray region loses a few clubs then we might see one of their leagues go the same way as Alberton did recently.
 
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