The Melbourne Hawks was a planned Australian Football League (AFL) team that would have consisted of the merger between the Melbourne and Hawthorn Football Clubs at the end of the 1996 season. Out of all the proposed merger combinations in the 1990s, it was seemed as ideal as it was known that Hawthorn had a football team which ranked as one of the best of all time but were in a dire financial situation, as opposed to Melbourne which had a sound financial base but were a club which had not performed on-field for the past 2 years.
Read more about Melbourne Hawks: Background, Merger Proposals, Don Scott and Operation Payback, Joe Gutnick, Merger Game, Vote, Aftermath
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