Port Fairy calls 'urgent meeting' to discuss player number issues

A club statement released on social media was "calling for all present and past players and interested parties to attend" the discussion.

"This meeting is to discuss and plan on how to address the club's current situation with the availability of player numbers and moving into the 2020 season," the post read.

The meeting comes after the Seagulls' reserves side forfeited Saturday's match against South Warrnambool on Friday night due to lack of numbers.

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Club president Noel Black said on Friday night it was "a tough decision" to make with injuries and player unavailability forcing them to pull out of the round 10 match.

"The fact of the matter is we basically had a whole side within the club unavailable this week," he told The Standard.

"We've already got under 16s and under 18s struggling for numbers, just because we're land-locked.

"Every grade is propping up each other grade and I think we have about five or six injuries in the seniors and five or six injuries in the reserves and we had five or six unavailable in the reserves."

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