Demonstone's Alliterative Alleged All-Star Allusion

[Demonstone]

In response to @george_on_the_outer mentioning my quizzes in today's training thread, here is an additional one.

You thought I'd run out of ideas to torment you with, didn't you?   

On the plus side, this is the penultimate teaser in my arsenal.

As usual, your challenge is to work out how I came up with this team. 

You will notice that it is a very strong side indeed, consisting solely of past and present Demons.

In response to pleas for leniency, I would rate this one as reasonably simple.

Answers in a PM if you please!

 

B:        James Frawley     Steven May     Alan Johnson

H/B:    Jake Lever     David Neitz     Jake Bowey

C:        Robert Flower     Greg Wells     Adem Yze

H/F:    Christian Petracca     David Schwarz     Angus Brayshaw

F:        Max Gawn     Allen Jakovich     Russell Robertson

R:        Jeff White     Nathan Jones     Kozzy Pickett

I/C:    Bayley Fritsch     Jack Viney     Todd Viney     Ben Brown

 

[Monbon]

None of them have heard of Stravinsky.

[Demonstone]

30 minutes ago, Demonstone said:

Answers in a PM if you please!

 

[Demonstone]

Congratulations to @Jjrogan for being the first to solve today's mystery.

For everybody else ... Clue #1:  Troy Simmonds and Phil Baker would approve of this team.

[Demonstone]

Clue #2:  Although this is a football team, they'd be more suited to Summer.

[La Dee-vina Comedia]

I don't know what links these players, but I do know it would be an awesome team to watch.

[Demonstone]

It's a talented team that would also love to eat out together, I'm sure.  

However, they'd avoid places like Entrecote. 

You'd be more likely to find them enjoying some delicious dim sum at a local yum cha.

That now makes a total of FIVE hints!  Not all have been flagged as such, however.

[Demonstone]

@Mazer Rackham can be added to the list of solvers.  That makes two of them!

 

[Demonstone]

I'm surprised that there have only been two correct replies so far.

This teaser appears to have made people feel even number than usual.

See you all in the morning.  

 

 

 

[Demonstone]

Well done to @tilly18 and @youami and @Jumping Jack Clennett for identifying the answer.

I'll leave it open for a while longer in case others are looking for a way to kill some time on this Public Holiday.

If you read the OP carefully, you'll find a couple of hints seeded therein.  Also note that I didn't claim that these players all have something in common, unlike most of my previous teasers.

Who else can put two and two together and solve the puzzle?

[David-Demon]

18 hours ago, Monbon said:

None of them have heard of Stravinsky.

 

 

13 hours ago, Demonstone said:

It's a talented team that would also love to eat out together, I'm sure.  

However, they'd avoid places like Entrecote. 

You'd be more likely to find them enjoying some delicious dim sum at a local yum cha.

That now makes a total of FIVE hints!  Not all have been flagged as such, however.

James Frawley maybe late to the dinner. Just sayin....

[Demonstone]

13 minutes ago, David-Demon said:

James Frawley maybe late to the dinner.

Now that's a cryptic comment, David!  He wouldn't want to be next to May, perhaps?

We can add @Allus Monk to the list of those who have worked it out.

Below is the final clue.  My cunning plan is for the solution to be revealed later this morning.

 

Edited January 25 by Demonstone

[Bombay Airconditioning]

I’m a fan of these but find myself struggling…..

[Demonstone]

If you look for a connection other than the players' names, it will all add up.

[Timothy Reddan-A'Blew]

You haven't seen my message @Demonstone???

[Demonstone]

Not if you posted it on an old PM, Tim.  I delete those as a matter of course.

PS:  @Dee Zephyr has cracked the code, as I suspect @Timothy Reddan-A'Blew has also done.

Edited Wednesday at 11:57 PM by Demonstone

[Timothy Reddan-A'Blew]

3 minutes ago, Demonstone said:

Not if you posted it on an old PM, Tim.  I delete those as a matter of course.

PS:  @Dee Zephyr has cracked the code, as I suspect @Timothy Reddan-A'Blew has also done.

I did, cos of that messaging problem I had.

I'll try again, and I, too, suspect. In the end it certainly wasn't rocket science (although, curiously, very fundamental to it!)

[Demonstone]

@Timothy Reddan-A'Blew has added a plus to his ledger by submitting the correct answer.

@reynolds46 has also calculated correctly.

Edited Thursday at 12:18 AM by Demonstone

[Demonstone]

Time to put you all out of your misery.  

The team has been selected on the basis that the jumper numbers of the first two players on each line add up to the jumper number of the third player.  eg Frawley (8) plus May (1) equals Johnson (9).

I have made numerous allusions to this throughout the thread, with hints such as ADDITIONAL, PLUS, SUMMER, (dim) SUM, NUMBER,  PUT TWO AND TWO TOGETHER, ADD UP and CALCULATED.

The photo clue is BlackADDER.

Simmonds and Baker were both nicknamed "Snake".  A type of snake is the ADDER.

Well done to all those who were able to FIGURE it out.

[David-Demon]

On 1/24/2023 at 11:13 PM, Demonstone said:

In response to @george_on_the_outer mentioning my quizzes in today's training thread, here is an additional one.

You thought I'd run out of ideas to torment you with, didn't you?   

On the plus side, this is the penultimate teaser in my arsenal.

As usual, your challenge is to work out how I came up with this team. 

You will notice that it is a very strong side indeed, consisting solely of past and present Demons.

In response to pleas for leniency, I would rate this one as reasonably simple.

Answers in a PM if you please!

 

B:        James Frawley     Steven May     Alan Johnson

H/B:    Jake Lever     David Neitz     Jake Bowey

C:        Robert Flower     Greg Wells     Adem Yze

H/F:    Christian Petracca     David Schwarz     Angus Brayshaw

F:        Max Gawn     Allen Jakovich     Russell Robertson

R:        Jeff White     Nathan Jones     Kozzy Pickett

I/C:    Bayley Fritsch     Jack Viney     Todd Viney     Ben Brown

 

I give in... The answer is driving me nuts..  Help me before I go insane.... I reckon the answer is that they all played for Melbourne but I maybe wrong...

[Demonstone]

Not sure if you're serious David, but check the post above yours.

[demosaw]

45 minutes ago, David-Demon said:

I give in... The answer is driving me nuts..  Help me before I go insane.... I reckon the answer is that they all played for Melbourne but I maybe wrong...

You at least got a participation award!

[Mazer Rackham]

I give David credit for attempting to answer without going straight to the back of the book to look it up.