The recently formed Upper Murray league working party released its recommendations on Monday ahead of its bid to join the Tallanagatta and District league.

Among the recommendations were that Corryong host the majority of home matches with Cudgewa also allocated a handful of matches early in the season.

Tumbarumba, Bullioh and Border-Walwa were all snubbed in the proposal.

Waters was fuming that Tumbarumba had been left out in the cold in regards to the proposed merger.

"They don't want us to be any part of it and we are on our own basically," Waters said.

"Which will be the death of us.

"The working party says they want it to be all inclusive yet there are only home games slated for Corryong and Cudgewa.

"We haven't got a voice on the working party but that was our choice.

"We knew from the outset that we weren't included and there was never going to be any matches or training sessions at Tumbarumba.

"It was made clear early on, that's the way it is."

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Waters said the club had explored other options but believes its only chance of survival was in a vibrant Upper Murray league competition.

"We explored joining the Farrer league but realistically it's just going to be too tough," he said.

"We do the bulk of our recruiting from Wagga and players aren't going to leave Wagga to play for Tumbarumba in a Wagga based competition.

"Which is the same problem this Upper Murray FNC - One Vision is going to have if they join the Tallangatta league.

"If they think players are going to leave a Tallangatta league club to play for them, they are kidding themselves.

"Players won't want to travel to Corryong to play in the Tallangatta league.

"Players generally leave their home club to do something different and play in another league, not the same one."

A scathing Waters had read the working party's recommendations and said an explanation on how a merged club would be funded was a glaring omission by the party.

"I've seen their glossy proposal that was released on Monday night," he said.

"But they didn't tell us how they are going to fund a merged club.

"All they said was we are going to have a $30,000 operating profit in the first season.

"Well I would love to see the auditors report on that."

Waters said the working party was also underplaying the travel involved in joining the Tallangatta league.

An amalgamated club would field senior and reserve grade and under 17, 14 and 12 football sides and A, B and C grade and under 17, 15, 13 and 11 netball.

Wahgunyah, Rutherglen and Chiltern are more than 150km from Corryong which is at least a one-and-a-half hour road trip.

The Tallangatta league fourths commence at 9.10am each week.

"I don't think they have thought about the travel involved for the juniors," he said.

"If you have got kids playing in the fourths you are going to have to be putting them in the car at 7am in the morning for some away matches.

"And it is a three hour round trip some weeks.

"Trust me, the novelty of that will wear off."

Waters was also critical of AFL NEB.

"They get paid to keep football vibrant in all communities," he said.

"Their No. 1 priority should be to explore all options of keeping football going in the Upper Murray and the surrounding district.

"But it's no secret that they would prefer the Upper Murray league to fold so it's one less competition that they don't have to worry about.