Capper offers to save Tassie footy club
Former AFL high flier Warwick Capper has signed a new Aussie Rules playing contract as part of a bid to save a 123-year-old club in Tasmania from folding.
The Kermandie Football Club, south of Hobart, is facing oblivion as it struggles now for a second season to field a team, after being forced into recess last year.
Kermandie coach Paul Allison says Capper is the Southern Football League's (SFL) highest-profile signing ever.
The former Sydney and Brisbane full-forward, and one-time porn movie actor, will again pull on the white boots, at 46 years of age.
No stranger to a fight - he once challenged boxing champion Jeff Fenech to a stoush - the lifelong spruiker known as the Wiz has agreed to weave his magic in a bid to save Kermandie.
"I was the biggest crowd puller in Australia," Capper told The Mercury newspaper on Sunday from the Gold Coast.
"I'll have the tight shorts on, I've only put on 7kg (since my playing days) so I'm looking all right.
"I'm 46, but everyone says I look 31."
Capper says he will only be available to play "four or five" games but he has already committed to playing in round one - if Kermandie can field a team.
But a less optimistic SFL president Paul Harriss has put the kybosh on the Wiz.
"It wouldn't matter if it was Warwick Capper or Matthew Richardson; one player is not going to drag along the other 40," Harriss told The Mercury.
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