From localfooty.com.au
Reported by Sam Landsberger
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SECOND-tier football is set for its biggest shakeup in more than a decade with five AFL clubs believed to want out of VFL alignments.
All Victorian clubs are affiliated with a VFL team, except Geelong and Collingwood, which field stand-alone teams and have total control over player and team development.
A highly placed AFL club official told the Herald Sun the Cats and Pies, who have won three of the past four AFL premierships, hold a "significant competitive advantage".
He added there was a correlation between the second-tier formula and AFL success.
Both incur licence fees and staffing costs of about $250,000, but that sum was described as "not gigantic" in December by Grant O'Riley, who was AFL Victoria chairman at the time.
