A few months ago a steering group was set up to consider the pros and cons of merger, and it was charged with reporting back to the clubs when it had concluded its deliberations.
Now members of both clubs have seen that report.
Doors remain wid
e open, as no recommendation has been made in the report, and it will be up to members to study its contents and vote as they think fit at special meetings to be held on March 30.
Ron Macdonald, captain of the Grange Club, is reported to have said that the report envisages the recently enlarged Grange Club as the clubhouse for all the members.
There are enough lockers for the men, but an extension will be required to add sufficient lockers for the ladies.
It is envisaged that the Monifieth clubhouse would be largely mothballed, but that the ladies' section of the merged clubs would continue to use it until their new locker accommodation was available.
Merger talk has been in the air at Monifieth for many years, with first the Grange Club and the Monifieth forming the Grange & Dundee; then the Press Club and the NCR joining together to become the Abertay.
After a lull of a few years Grange, Monifieth, Broughty and Abertay started merger talks, with the fifth club, Ladies' Panmure on the north side of Princes Street, having nothing to do with that sort of thing.
Ladies' Panmure have maintained their independent stance, but in 2005 Grange & Dundee merged with Abertay to form the present Grange Club.
It seems very clear that merger talk will run and run.
