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Hardly a 'perfect merger'. It was a rebranding of the Brisbane Bears with AFL owned IP and some pre-draft player concessions.
Still way better than no merger at all though, but i agree that perhaps there could have been more to it, such as maybe playing a number of home games in Melbourne and respecting Fitzroy as a club more-so. Perhaps continuing on or forming as a bonafide VFL club at the same time as the merger.
I think there is still a College Fitzroy team.
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