The current Lions senior committee has proposed to change the club's name to the Southern Highlands District Rugby League Club in an attempt to attract more sponsorship dollars.

Lions' officials met with players and supporters on Tuesday night to discuss the issue with the meeting getting quite heated at stages as the locals put forward their opinion.

The majority of the people at the meeting were against the Lions dropping Mittagong from their name, with Lions top grade coach Grahame Andrews one of the most vehement opponents of the proposal.

"They say it's just a name change, but it's not, it's more than that," Andrews said.

"The club will lose it's identity and Mittagong as we know it will cease to exist and more than 100 years of history will go down the gurgler."

A decision hasn't been made yet on any name change with officials to work extra hard in the next fortnight to try and get local businesses interested in supporting the team.

"There's a group meeting on Monday and we'll discuss it further then, but no decision will be made until we have another meeting about it in two weeks time," Mittagong Lions president Tony Caldwell said.

Andrews believes the response was so strong at the meeting that the club has no choice but to remain as Mittagong or risk losing players and supporters.

"I was really pleased with the response from people who don't want to see Mittagong fold as a side," he said.

"There was a lot of younger fellas at the meeting that are keen to get involved, which is great to see and some talked about joining the committee, which is unheard of."

Andrews and Lions officials are currently talking with four first grade players and they are confident of getting the quartet to play for the side if they can raise enough money.

"We've got no problem getting them to play for us, but we've got to have the cash to make them travel."

It was also suggested at the meeting that many fans would rather see the Lions go back to second grade as Mittagong than stay in the top grade as Southern Highlands.

Andrews hopes it doesn't get to that, but he said there is no point doing away with the Mittagong name, if there is no merging of club's resources.

"It would be great if we could get all the clubs together and we had one team because I think everyone would support it," he said.

"But I don't think it's ever going to happen while three of the four clubs don't even want to come to the table and talk about it."