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'Tis in season, this off-season - Hold on to your hats!

Timothy Reddan-A'Blew
in Melbourne Demons

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Yep, another timely mess-with-your-minds (and a lot else?) puzzle.

This squad of 23 Dees, and their coach, share a general something. Messiest correct entries will be awarded medals (of a particular type that might be revealed at the inevitable 'give-me-a-freaking-clue' stage). And, within that general something, they also share a specific something. Get that and you'll also win the services of 'Furious Fred Fanning's Fabulous Frames' to mount your medal.

What do they share, generally and specifically?

  1. Frank Adams

  2. Harold Ball

  3. Barry Bourke

  4. Gabrielle Colvin

  5. Chris Connolly

  6. Ted Cordner

  7. Warren Dean

  8. Simon Eishold

  9. Megan Fitzsimon

  10. Damien Gaspar

  11. Jasmine Grierson

  12. Mark Jackson

  13. Trevor Johnson

  14. Harvey Langford

  15. George Moodie

  16. Jason Norrish

  17. Graham Osborne

  18. Daisy Pearce

  19. Olivia Purcell

  20. Ian Ridley

  21. Alby Rodda

  22. Marcus Seecamp

  23. Ivor Warne-Smith

    Coach: John Northey

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There've been soooo many puzzles now, I hope this one hasn't been done already...

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    1 hour ago, Little Goffy said:

    I own 2026.

    I have it all figured out except the coach and some of the players.

    😄

    ...I think...

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    CLUE?

    🙏

    Got the general connection bit. It’s the specificity that’s the issue 😅

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    13 hours ago, Little Goffy said:

    I own 2026.

    I have it all figured out except the coach and some of the players.

    Samesies, except in my case it’s the coach and ALL of the players.

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    1 minute ago, Ghostwriter said:

    CLUE?

    🙏

    Got the general connection bit. It’s the specificity that’s the issue 😅

    The general connection being they all played for Melbourne!?

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    1 minute ago, Harvey Wallbanger said:

    The general connection being they all played for Melbourne!?

    Answers in a PM, ‘Banger! This ain’t your first rodeo!!!

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    Bloody Chris Connolly - otherwise the A or E connection would work again. I actually got to know him a little bit just after he retired. He was quite nice. That said I have no inside info. Maybe I should have kept in touch so I could now solve this brainteaser. 😂

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    19 minutes ago, Harvey Wallbanger said:

    It wasn't an attempt at an answer - just a bit of banter. Get off my horse......

    Would that be the horse you rode in on? Coz you know what you both can go and do, right?

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    Thanks for joining, @Ghostwriter, @Little Goffy, @Harvey Wallbanger, @Go Ds, and (I think?) @Tolstoys Nudge!

    I continue to worry this has been done, perhaps early-ish in @Demonstone's career?

    Anyways; I find it hard to assess whether clues are 'You call that a clue?!', 'Yeah, I can work with that', or 'C'mon, you're giving it away'.

    Headline, though: this puzzle is not football related.

    I guess that's a clarifier, not a clue. So, how's this work for you: Consider the title...

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    @hardtack has joined the fray with a sadly incorrect punt.

    However, it does prompt another 'clarification' (gosh I'm being generous-slash-annoying): it's nothing about the players themselves.

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

    What title?Thanks for joining, @Ghostwriter, @Little Goffy, @Harvey Wallbanger, @Go Ds, and (I think?) @Tolstoys Nudge!

    I continue to worry this has been done, perhaps early-ish in @Demonstone's career?

    Anyways; I find it hard to assess whether clues are 'You call that a clue?!', 'Yeah, I can work with that', or 'C'mon, you're giving it away'.

    Headline, though: this puzzle is not football related.

    I guess that's a clarifier, not a clue. So, how's this work for you: Consider the title...

    What title?

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    37 minutes ago, The Panglossian said:

    What title?

    'Tis in season, this off-season. Hold on to your hats!

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    @Harvey Wallbanger has come up with a possible answer well wide of my mark, and I'm awaiting his proof it can be applied to all 24 members of this group. If it's proved, he gets a gold star sticker (how fondly I remember these from my primary school days). Same will go to anyone who proves a clever complete connection that's not my intended one (@Little Goffy, you seem destined?)

    Tomorrow is hump day. Some clues await to help you over. Maybe.

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    @Harvey Wallbanger hasn't gone the whole nine yards but his effort does warrant a star: ⭐

    And I'd say you've earnt an effort star, too, @Little Goffy. Here 'tis ⭐

    Meanwhile, the actual answers are still blowing around.

    Hump day has just humped, so I think I'll try to help you all (ha!?) by listing the squad in a relevant order, instead of the original arbitrary alphabetical one. Give me a moment...

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    (typo)

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    Here you go, then:

    1. Daisy Pearce

    2. Ted Cordner

    3. Alby Rodda

    4. Simon Eishold

    5. Jason Norrish

    6. Ivor Warne-Smith

    7. Mark Jackson

    8. Ian Ridley

    9. Warren Dean

    10. Frank Adams

    11. Barry Bourke

    12. Olivia Purcell

      Coach: John Northey

    13. Chris Connolly

    14. Graham Osborne

    15. Harvey Langford

    16. George Moodie

    17. Jasmine Grierson

    18. Marcus Seecamp

    19. Trevor Johnson

    20. Damien Gaspar

    21. Harold Ball

    22. Gabrielle Colvin

    23. Megan Fitzsimon

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    24 hours of 🦗 🦗 🦗 so let's see if this prompts any brainstorms:

    • Why might the squad be mixed?

    • The re-ordered squad: apart from alphabetical, what other bases for ordering are there?

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

    24 hours of 🦗 🦗 🦗 so let's see if this prompts any brainstorms:

    • Why might the squad be mixed?

    • The re-ordered squad: apart from alphabetical, what other bases for ordering are there?

    Dewey-Decimal?

    Those annoying QR code things at cafes?

    A legitimised chain of command in time of declared war?

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    27 minutes ago, Go Ds said:

    Kid Omg GIF

    40 minutes ago, Little Goffy said:

    Dewey-Decimal?

    Those annoying QR code things at cafes?

    A legitimised chain of command in time of declared war?

    My opinion of you has gone up yet another notch, LG 👏 Not, of course, correct, however.

    If they were head-scratchers, rather than face-palmers, Go Ds, how about this?...

    ''Tis in season': what season would that be now in Australia's part of the world?

    C'mon, I'm practically giving it to you all!

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    Typo (as usual!)

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    1 hour ago, Timothy Reddan-A'Blew said:

    My opinion of you has gone up yet another notch, LG 👏 Not, of course, correct, however.

    If they were head-scratchers, rather than face-palmers, Go Ds, how about this?...

    ''Tis in season': what season would that be now in Australia's part of the world?

    C'mon, I'm practically giving it to you all!

    They're all watermelons? 😂

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    1 hour ago, Go Ds said:

    They're all watermelons? 😂

    You're thinking big, GD, but you've got to think waaaaaay bigger.

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