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Hey all,

I was just doing some random youtube surfing and stumbled across the proposed Melbourne Hawks theme song from 1996 when the merger was being discussed.

Has anyone heard the song? It's pretty lame.

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we dont talk of such things anymore... :unsure:

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i'm glad that i was too young to know anything about this when it was happening!

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Seeing that you tube clip is a great diet plan. I just spewed my lunch up.

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ha ha what a pisser.

Forever grateful that the merger didn't go through.


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True story - I was torn on how to vote and I voted with my head and voted "merge" - I went to the letterbox at the end of my street and popped the letter into the hole and then felt ill - I sat by that letterbox feeling sick and waited for the pickup and talked to the postie when he arrived to collect the mail - of all things he was a Hawks supporter understood my agony and we retrieved my letter, I ripped it up, got new forms the next day and sent off a "no merge" vote

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True story - I was torn on how to vote and I voted with my head and voted "merge" - I went to the letterbox at the end of my street and popped the letter into the hole and then felt ill - I sat by that letterbox feeling sick and waited for the pickup and talked to the postie when he arrived to collect the mail - of all things he was a Hawks supporter understood my agony and we retrieved my letter, I ripped it up, got new forms the next day and sent off a "no merge" vote

As the vote and whole proceedure was flawed in every possible way......I do not think it would have counted anyway....

But I like what you did....

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"No mercy for what we are doing
No thought to even what we have done
We don't need to feel the sorrow
No remorse for the helpless one

War without end
No remorse No repent
We don't care what it meant
Another day Another death
Another sorrow Another breath
No remorse No repent
We don't care what it meant
Another day Another death
Another sorrow Another breath

Only the strong survive
No one to save the weaker club
We are ready to kill all comers
Like a merger right at your face"

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Was a good deal for the Dees.

And would have saved us from 16 yrs of mediocrity.

Would have won about 6 flags I reckon.

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I thought blasphemous threads contravened this site's Code of conduct

where is a mod when you need one

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Seeing that you tube clip is a great diet plan. I just spewed my lunch up.

haha yeh i cant tell what's worse, the theme song or the jumper...


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For those interested;

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I've always thought it would make a great doco to do something on the merger, not just between us but also proposed mergers between Fitzroy/Bulldogs, Fitzroy/North etc that also fell through. Would love to have the time and resources to do it one day (would need to see if I could source footage of the Dallas Brooks Hall and Camberwell Civic Centre other than the brief clips on That Was The Season That Was 1996 - the atmosphere in those halls that night was fiercely electric and not necessarily in a good way.)

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I've always thought it would make a great doco to do something on the merger, not just between us but also proposed mergers between Fitzroy/Bulldogs, Fitzroy/North etc that also fell through. Would love to have the time and resources to do it one day (would need to see if I could source footage of the Dallas Brooks Hall and Camberwell Civic Centre other than the brief clips on That Was The Season That Was 1996 - the atmosphere in those halls that night was fiercely electric and not necessarily in a good way.)

And another proposed merger that isn't as well known is the Melbourne/Fitzroy one (twice talked about, according to wiki) . Read more here (scroll half way down the page (of the link) for the story)

The merger would have taken place at the end of 1986 and the club would have debuted in 1987. The jumper of the new team was essentially the traditional red and blue Melbourne jumper with a gold band separating the two colours, the gold Fitzroy lion logo featured on the front and a gold number on the back.
Melbourne and Fitzroy again discussed a merger in 1994. This time Melbourne president Ian Ridley and Fitzroy chairman Dyson Hore-Lacy conducted talks. These talks began in late July 1994 at the city offices of Noel McMahon (Melbourne's vice president). While many of the merger details were the same as in 1986, a major sticking point was Dyson Hore-Lacy's insistence that "Fitzroy" remain part of any merged club's name; for example the "Melbourne - Fitzroy Football Club". However an in-principle' tentative agreement was reached that a company called the "Melbourne Football Club - Fitzroy Football Club Pty Ltd", operating as the "Melbourne Lions" would operate in the AFL for the 1995 season.
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And another proposed merger that isn't as well known is the Melbourne/Fitzroy one (twice talked about, according to wiki) . Read more here (scroll have way down the page (of the link) for the story)

Interestingly enough a lot of Fitzroy people did unofficially merge with Melbourne back when Oakley sent the bones of our old club to Brisbane. I've met quite a few up in the Redlegs. Melbourne was the obvious choice being the over all name of the city we lived in. I for one have never regretted that choice and i'm a Gold member now.

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