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Demonstone's King's Birthday Kranium Busting Kinda Bewildering Kafkaesque Braintwister

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We're facing a long wait until our next game.  Let's kill some time before we kill the Pies.

This team of past and present Demon players goes right back to the 1950s.  Some are better known than others.

In a return to traditional values, there is just a 19th and 20th man and none of this new-fangled interchange and substitute nonsense.

What common factor unites all these players?

Answers in a PM only please!

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B:       Glenn Boland     John Beckwith     Ken Roberts

H/B:   Jake Bowey     Steven Icke     Cameron Hunter

C:       Lloyd Burgmann     Chris Connolly     Lachie Hunter

H/F:   Kyle Dunkley     Brad Miller     Angus Brayshaw

F:       Charlie Spargo     Garry Lyon     Xavier Tanner

R:       Shane Grambeau     Stewart Gull     Paul Goss

19th:     Ken Rollason     20th:     John Reid

 

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    • Demonstone changed the title to Demonstone's King's Birthday Kranium Busting Kinda Bewildering Kafkaesque Braintwister
     
     
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    Time for a clue?  Why not.

    The answer is associated with that one day in September.

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    Sorry about that misleading clue.  It wasn't a reference to Grand Final Day at all.

    Just a little Dad joke you might say.  :D

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    49 minutes ago, Demonstone said:

    Sorry about that misleading clue.  It wasn't a reference to Grand Final Day at all.

    Just a little Dad joke you might say.  :D

    I was wondering how you will be connecting the clue with the solution.

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    22 minutes ago, Demonstone said:

    Not if you tacked it onto a previous discussion, @Timothy Reddan-A'Blew.

    I delete old PMs as a matter of course.  Send it through in a new message.

    I did.

    Done.

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    2 minutes ago, Timothy Reddan-A'Blew said:

    I did.

    Done.

    You did done good and answered correctly.

    That makes six posters who have worked it out.  I'll leave the teaser up overnight for any latecomers.

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    2 minutes ago, Demonstone said:

    You did done good and answered correctly.

    That makes six posters who have worked it out.  I'll leave the teaser up overnight for any latecomers.

    Hmmm...Dunno... The farther you let this go on, Stone, well...

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    Could we please have a drum roll followed by an emphatic "boom" and a "tish".

    All the players in this team had a father who also played VFL/AFL.

    The twist is that none of the fathers played for Melbourne.

    My sneaky "one day in September" clue was a reference to Fathers' Day.

    Other little hints scattered around include "Dad joke", "farther" and "sun".

    Thank you to all participants. 

    I may post another of these during the long break post KB if there is enough interest.

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    5 hours ago, Demonstone said:

    Could we please have a drum roll followed by an emphatic "boom" and a "tish".

    ....

    I may post another of these during the long break post KB if there is enough interest.

    Please sir, can I have some more?

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