THE Farrer League will remain a six-team competition after Collingullie-Ashmont-Kapooka (CAK) and The Rock-Yerong Creek’s (TRYC) application to leave was overwhelmingly rejected last night.Representatives from the Demons and Magpies were both given a chance to put forward their case at an extraordinary meeting at AFL House last night.But their attempts to join the Riverina Football League (RFL) and Hume League respectively were quashed as the four remaining Farrer League clubs voted unanimously in rejecting their request to leave the competition.After almost two hours of passionate debate, representatives from CAK and TRYC were then asked to leave the room to allow the vote to commence.But Temora, Northern Jets, Marrar and Rivcoll took less than a minute to knock CAK and TRYC’s application on the head.CAK president Scott Lewington and TRYC counterpart John Driscoll were both disappointed with last night’s result but both indicated their respective club’s desire to appeal the decision to the Southern Region Board.Lewington stressed at last night’s meeting that the club was trying to look after its best interests and secure its future.“We want to move forward and we don’t want to be held back,” Lewington pleaded to the meeting.“These decisions that we’ve come to were made in the best interests of our club, we’re looking after ourselves and that’s all we can do.”The remaining clubs all made their feelings known early in the night with Marrar the first to come out and declare it would not support CAK or TRYC in its attempt to leave the league.Temora and Northern Jets then said that in similar sentiments to the Demons, they were also looking after the best interests of their clubs, by not allowing any teams to leave the Farrer League.Rivcoll president Michael Irons read a prepared statement, where he hit out at both CAK and TRYC for their actions.“We do not believe that Collingullie and The Rock have considered the big picture of football in applying to leave the league,” Irons said.“If the applications are an attempt to force the Southern Board in transferring the other clubs into the Farrer then you are extremely foolish as you have severely harmed the credibility of the league and hampered any chances of gaining any clubs in 2009.”