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Despite having run out of ideas for these teasers a few weeks ago, the tragic news is that I have devised a few more to taunt you with.

This is undoubtedly the easiest of them all and I would expect it won't provide much of a challenge but, hey, not everything in this life has to be difficult.

Following is a team of past and present Demons. 

Harry Petty makes the team (but not the real one ATM, alas) but Tom Sparrow doesn't qualify.

What is the common factor that links all of these players?

As always, answers in a PM only please.

Clues should not be necessary and I am fully expecting a deluge of correct responses very quickly.

 

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B:       Peter Walsh     Harrison Petty     Troy Broadbridge

H/B:   Jake Bowey     Sam Frost     Daniel Ward

C:       Oskar Baker     Scott Thompson     Steven Stretch

H/F:    Sam Blease     Matthew Bate     Colin Sylvia

F:       Michael Newton     Jacob van Rooyen     Gary Moorcroft

R:      Steve O'Dwyer     Clayton Oliver     Jordie McKenzie

I/C:    Glenn Molloy     Dean Chiron     Kyle Cheney     Aaron vandenBerg

SUB:   Trent Ormond-Allen

COACH:    Norm Smith

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    Just now, Demonstone said:

    The deluge has begun.

    First prize goes to @ManDee.

    It took me ages, I forgot how to PM 😄

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    1 minute ago, Demonstone said:

    Third place has been snagged by @Deemania since 56.

    Got in early, that's all.

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    Still pondering? 

    How about if I told you that it is most appropriate that our team colours are red and blue?

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    Hmmmm, wasn’t confident in submitting my answer since I wasn’t sure it was correct. I think some of these players getting a guernsey in this team is questionable. 

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    2 minutes ago, Demonstone said:

    Who would you consider ineligible, @WalkingCivilWar?

    Colin Sylvia, Rooey, Scott Thompson

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    Realised I had given the answer away.

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    7 minutes ago, Demonstone said:

    I've sent you a PM as it's impossible to discuss the reasons without giving away the answer.

    We’ve just discussed in PMs the issue I have with those three players. When you finally make public the answer, I’m interested to know if anyone else agrees with me, or whether they’re wrong like you. 😁

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    32 minutes ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

    Colin Sylvia, Rooey, Scott Thompson

    Ditto!

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    @Roger Mellie has also solved the teaser and raised the same eligibility doubts on those three players.

    I'll explain my reasoning when I post the reveal later this evening.

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    To nobody's surprise, @Jaded No More has correctly identified that all the players in today's team are kindred spirits of hers in that they have red hair.  They are all blessed with a skull of rust.

    I'll address the query raised by some posters as to the gingerness of three of the players now.

    1.  Colin Sylvia was as redhaired as they come until he fell in love with the peroxide bottle.

    2.  Rooey, while at the fairer end of the ranga scale, is still a redhead in my view (strawberry blonde?).

    3.  Scott Thompson is the one I was most hesitant about.  If you look at early photos of him before he adopted the #1 cropped hairstyle, I maintain that there is a measure of the Fanta pants in him.

    I guess it's all in the eye of the beerholder and opinions may vary, but I've got no issue with that.  After all, this whole thing is just a bit of ephemeral internet fluff.

    In closing, may I quote the wise words of @Jaded No More who I feel speaks for redheads everywhere ... "It's not how you look it's how ginger you feel at heart".

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    Ha this is the first of these I've actually got, and pleased I'd already figured it out by the time I'd gotten to the full back! Perhaps it was due to the fine dusting of cinnamon I have in my own hair!

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