Proud of myself for coming up with a team which reached a little back into history, although my knowledge of players and their lives doesn't cover much before this century. Fun to discover that I could include our very own young gun in the list!

Not everyone on the team was eligible for their whole careers. Some sources even give different accounts - that ought to start some health arguments.

Interestingly, the criteria provided a pretty incredible best 22, but by the time you fill the 'seconds' team you begin scraping the barrel.

So, what do all these players allegedly have in common?

B: Anthony Daniher Steven Silvagni Sam Fisher

HB: Danny Frawley Justin Leppitsch Matt Rosa

C: Blake Acres Anthony Koutafides Harvey Langford

HF: Adam Goodes Peter McKenna Josh Weddle

F: Jack Darling David Neitz Logan Morris

FOLL: Graham 'Polly' Farmer Scott Pendlebury Jobe Watson

Bench: Rex Hunt Mike Fitzpatrick Jason McCartney Tom Swift

Edited 9 hours ago9 hr by Little Goffy

Impressive on first impressions, @Little Goffy!

I shall not be fooled by the optimism (pessimism?) of your title! Thinking cap ON!

So, @Demonstone, @beelzebub, is it?

Tom Swift famously retired young from football to study medicine, but then went on to switch to finance, supposedly now working for CitiGroup and/or Essendon's investment planning. All of that is far too complicated for me, and nothing to do with eligibility for the team.

However, Swift and our own David Neitz are probably the two most debatable members of the team. Some sources say in, some say out.

3 hours ago, Little Goffy said:

Tom Swift famously retired young from football to study medicine, but then went on to switch to finance, supposedly now working for CitiGroup and/or Essendon's investment planning. All of that is far too complicated for me, and nothing to do with eligibility for the team.

However, Swift and our own David Neitz are probably the two most debatable members of the team. Some sources say in, some say out.

The thing about clues is,

Cluer: Geez, I'm practically giving it away

Clueless: Whaaa?

This I now know.

4 hours ago, Little Goffy said:

Tom Swift famously retired young from football to study medicine, but then went on to switch to finance, supposedly now working for CitiGroup and/or Essendon's investment planning. All of that is far too complicated for me, and nothing to do with eligibility for the team.

However, Swift and our own David Neitz are probably the two most debatable members of the team. Some sources say in, some say out.

Don't tell me you found an internet registry of AFL players' navels...

6 hours ago, Timothy Reddan-A'Blew said:

So, @Demonstone, @beelzebub, is it?

Not an easy one, but gettable. 😁

6 minutes ago, Demonstone said:

Not an easy one, but gettable. 😁

These reminds me of when , between construction careers.. took a sabbatical at the the behest of P.K. .. ended up in I.T.

Believe it or not some of us engineers would get the semi official [censored]/dummies versions of the Official Tech Manuals.

Why ?... because many manuals are written by the people that developed the equipment/systems. They KNEW each way from Sunday how the bloody thing worked. Invariably those reading the manuals were looking at some gee wizz bang new bit of kit or software. It ( manual ) made Jack sense..

The other "guides" held our hand until we did. Was kind of funny thinking back considering the value of equipment or importance of the network being built or upgraded. These books never appeared on expense accounts btw ..lol

The point... we dont all get it and is always easier for the ones authoring it.

We do appreciate the game 👍