While the Eyre Peninsula has a higher sport participation rate than the rest of the state and there are adequate junior player numbers, the "drop-out rate was high" and in some instances players as young as 12 and 13 were being used to bolster the adult B grade competition, Mr Anderson found.

A third of the 27 clubs across the peninsula indicated their facilities would not meet future needs and there was no "unified view" from the clubs on the future and "inconsistency" in applying player permits, 16-a-side B grade rules and a requirement for junior players to wear identifying armbands when playing in the seniors," Mr Anderson told Sunday's meeting at Wudinna.

The creation of an independent commission to concentrate on centralising management issues and to pursue regional grants, sponsorship and funding from the SANFL was one of his main recommendations.

Reducing the number of leagues from five to three over the next three years to strengthen the leagues and incorporating an inter-league, inter-club competition as part of this year's season to help breakdown barriers between leagues and add new interest, was a second main recommendation.

The new leagues proposed by Mr Anderson are:

League 1 to include Boston, Cummins Kappine, Eyre United, Lincoln South, Lock, Mallee Park, Marble Range, Ramblers, Tasman, Tumby Bay United Yeelanna and Wayback footballs clubs.

League 2 to include Central Eyre, Cleve, Cowell, Elliston, Kimba, Ports and Rudall football clubs, and possibly the Lock and United Yeelanna clubs if they did not want to be part of League 1.

League 3 to include Blues (Smoky Bay and Ceduna), Koonibba, Thevenard, West Coast Hawks, Western Districts, Western United, Wirrulla and Wudinna football clubs.

Mr Anderson said it would be "desirable" later if the Whyalla Football League were to come under the Eyre Peninsula commission's umbrella.

His recommendations were formulated after meetings with 25 of the 27 football clubs and many of the netball clubs, the five leagues and surveys of players and clubs.

Mr Anderson said the strongest message to come through was that clubs were opposed to "amalgamations" and wanted to retain their own identities.