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Capper picks Kermandie

WARWICK Capper is set to make a comeback for Tasmania’s embattled Kermandie Football Club.

No this is not a hoax. Capper might be better known these days for his achievements off the field - a take up again that includes Gold Coast meter man, stripper, celebrity boxer and porn comedian - but he is keen to again pull on the frosty boots, The Mercury reports.

In a desperate require to keep the 123-year-old football co-operate alive, coach Paul Allison has signed the 46-year-old ex-Swans and Brisbane star to play in the Southern Football League this season.

Capper and Allison struck up a friendship when the latter was rookie-listed by Sydney in 1999.

Allison described "the Wiz" to the degree that "the biggest signing in the annals of Huon footy".

Not surprisingly, Capper agreed. "I was the biggest crowd puller in Australia," he said from his Gold Coast home yesterday. "I'll have the tight shorts on, I've merely 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 and nothing else be available to play "four or five" games further he has already committed to playing in round one. Of course that's in the unlikely event Kermandie is in the rivalry.

Forced into recess in 2009 and struggling for numbers again this season, the club called an extremity training session on February 24, but solitary 20 players turned up. President Ron Webb reluctantly informed league administrators the proud Huon club would be unable to continue.

SFL president Paul Harriss aforesaid yesterday an 11-team roster for 2010 had been drawn up and the Robins' bird had flown. "It wouldn't matter if it was Warwick Capper or Matthew Richardson; individual player is not going to drag along the other 40," Harriss said.