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Yep

Marist amalgamated their fields with Salesians fields so the clubhouse finally got taken down. What happened was that with amalgamation, various clubs got put into different sections. The section that Marist was in was the Cape District and very disorganised. I remember playing one game in Woodstock and all of us had to duck as the police chased some gangsters across the field firing their guns.

The Tygerberg district became the one to play for, and all of the players moved over to play for clubs their, so the common became disused. I think Hellenic continued to practise at the Greek club for a while (now they have moved as well).

I still worked a deal with 7 Stars (Rob Moore) to use the Swiss ground after we pulled out of the IFA league at least that way the field was still being utilised. Ja the first year or two of the amalgamation was very up and down, I went to play a game in Mitchells Plain with Camps bay, it was quite strange to us at the time, needless to say althouh we were given the keys to the change room everything was cleaned out when we came in at half time. We learnt quite quickly to leave as much at home as possible and unfortunately it was the point where in my opinion many guys hung up there boots.