An article in the Mount Barker Courier newspaper on Wednesday confirmed that at the end of the current season the Eagles would discuss the viability of remaining in the Hills Football League and a possible move to the RMFL.

However, RMFL president Mick O’Hara said he had not received any formal application or plan for entering the league from the Eagles as yet.

“We haven’t had anything put to us yet,” he said.

“Callington’s president rang me one day to enquire about it.

“That’s as far as it’s got.”

O’Hara confirmed the RMFL was looking for an eighth team to join the league, something that would eliminate the existing bye faced by sides each week.

But he said the RMFL had a strict set of regulations that a potential eighth club would have to abide by if it wished to enter the league.

“We will have very stringent laws for any club looking to enter the RMFL,” he said.

“They (the eighth club) would have to bring a full contingent of teams and netball as well.

“We want to fill the eighth position, but we are not going to fill it for the sake of filling it.”

O’Hara said the regulations were set in place to avoid a repeat of what happened to the now defunct club, Murray Bridge Redlegs.

Redlegs withdrew from the competition in 2005 because they did not have enough players to fill their football and netball sides.

“We don’t want to go through the Redlegs scenario again,” he said.

“We want the eighth club that comes here to stay in the league for a long time.”

After going win-less in the 2006 season in the HFL, Callington has enjoyed a steady upwards progression in the past two years, winning four games in 2007 and two games from 13 matches so far this season.

The club decided to contemplate its future after Ashleigh Barnett stepped down as A grade coach of the Eagles.

O’Hara said the town would suit the RMFL geographically and the league would look at any offer put forward by the club.

“Callington is situated perfectly for our league,” he said.

“But what they put on the table ... we will wait and see.

“We would certainly look at any plans put forward.”

A number of issues would need to be addressed, such as the fact Callington Eagles share the same name as RMFL club Tailem Bend.

O’Hara also said Callington was not the only club that had expressed interest in the entering the RMFL.

“There has been one other club that has expressed interest,” he said.

“We will be getting back to them shortly.”