Former AFL spearheads Warwick Capper and Mark Jackson need not attend training at Tasmania's Kermandie Aussie Rules football club after a colourful bid to save the 123-year-old club from folding failed.

The multi-talented full-forwards were drafted into a last ditch bid to save the Robins, who face oblivion after failing for the second season in a row to attract enough players to field the necessary two teams in the Southern Football League (SFL).

Before last season's forced recess, the club had fielded teams south of Hobart for each of the previous 121 years.

SFL president Paul Harriss said Kermandie could not be a competitive outfit this season.

"For those that have been trying to resuscitate the club, it is entirely commendable," Harriss told The Mercury newspaper.

"But the reality of life is we have made a judgment based on the lists provided to us and that Kermandie will not be, as their own board has decided, in a position to adequately field teams in a competitive nature this year."

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