https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-...uffer/10830802

The South Gippsland town, which proudly boasts a population of 201, is focused on a football contest much closer to home — the survival of the local club.

In this part of the world, AFLX — a modified format of AFL designed to be played on rectangular pitches and appeal to different markets — is being viewed as yet another sign of a code that is losing touch with its origins.
Now this is sad, and its not just any club - they gave us the one and only Bazza Standfield!
My main memory of 'Fish" is one piece of play at WO - running backwards with the flight of the ball into oncoming traffic, sticking out one mit and somehow plucking the ball as he fell to take a mark.


Does anyone know if any other small club that gave us VFL/AFL players are struggling? I actually get to Gippsland a few times per year and drove through Fish Creek not that long ago.