Reported by Nick Ansell

 ENTERING THE LEAGUE: Former Port Melbourne defender Lachie Waddell has joined Hamilton Kangaroos in a major coup for the Hampden league outfit. Picture: Emily Fraser-Ison.

A PORT Melbourne premiership player will solidify Hamilton Kangaroos' forward and ruck stocks as Gerard FitzGerald's men plot a route to Hampden league finals.

Former Borough defender Lachie Waddell has signed at Melville Oval.

Weddall helped Port Melbourne to a VFL premiership in 2017. He was deployed as a key defender, working closely with coach Gary Ayres, after developing as a forward and ruck option.

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The AFL has confirmed that 22 licences have been granted for the second-tier competition to showcase football on the eastern coast from next year.

Historic Victorian club the Northern Bullants will come back from the dead to feature as a standalone team.

localfooty.com.au has just published an update for the 2021 season.

Ins and outs of the VFL for 2021

Media Release:

The Northern Bullants Football Club are pleased to confirm the club has officially accepted a formal license to join the newly formed VFL/Second Tier competition in 2021.

The AFL sent license offers to clubs from the Victorian Football League and North East Australian Football League across Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland, with a mandate for clubs to confirm their participation.

Northern Bullants President, Stephen Papal said: “We are delighted to confirm the Ants are back.

Anybody heard word on competition structure? Looks to me like we're gonna have 23 teams, so am guessing they're gonna have two conferences. Surely there's some word on the street?

Announced today that Port Melbourne will be fielding a team in VFLW in 2021 taking over the license that had belonged to Richmond.

As part of this an agreement has been reached between Port Melbourne and Richmond that Richmond AFLW players not playing that week will be able to play for Port Melbourne similar to agreement that Williamstown and Adelaide Crows had this year before season was derailed by Covid.

Their home games will be played at North Port Oval.

The season will start in Early February inline with AFLW and NAB League Girls Competitions.