Meander Valley president Leigh Dornauf has labelled the NTFA's interest in merging clubs as a "scapegoat" for the association's "bad decisions".
As Meander Valley played out its final game of the home-and-away season, support was still strong for the winless club with cars lined around most of the oval.
It is what Dornauf pointed to as his club, and other clubs in division two, are believed to be under threat if the NTFA proceeds with merging or closing clubs this off-season.
"I think we've got to get NTFA to realise that this club here has got the numbers," Dornauf said.
"We've got the facilities and we weren't given any support other than by the council and the government to get these facilities, now they're A-grade for our competition.
"And to think that us merging with a surrounding club is going to solve any problems for the NTFA, I can't see it."
He added it was disappointing to not see any NTFA representation at the ground in light of the news.
"Peter Gutwein hasn't been here, I don't know if Peter's seen the ground," he said.
"I think he should have got around the clubs that could be aimed at."
Dornauf is firmly of the belief that mergers will not work and in the case that it is the Suns who are asked to merge or close, it will not have the NTFA's desired effect, because the players "with respect, would have a battle to get a game with other clubs".
"There are families here that'll walk away from the game," he said.
"They're not going to go and follow Deloraine or go around to Bracknell, it won't happen."
He believes the premise of what division two is supposed to be has now put those member clubs under threat.
"Isn't it ridiculous, we've got ourselves into a position where we're going to force clubs to merge because they haven't got a junior team ... division two was set up to protect clubs like us," Dornauf said.
"[The NTFA] haven't set it up right, because they're letting premier league players come down into the second division and get paid enormous amounts of money.
"They haven't protected division two ... and this is a way of solving [their bad decisions] overnight."
As to what the Suns can do for now, the club will still look to appoint a new senior men's coach after Adrian Collins stepped down.
"We'll be in for the fight to survive because we've got the players, bit questionable the quality, but we're aiming to get the quality," Dornauf said.
"But we don't want to go ridiculous to get the quality, we want to support the people that are in this community.
"No one's going to give up their own club, they've fought to keep their club."