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...Well, twos anyway. If I need to, I apologise for this one following so closely on the cyclonic one. It's an ill wind?

Hopefully this one will resolve more quickly. To help that, I'll let on up front: the answer this time does lie in the players' playing careers with the Redlegs / Fuchsias / Demons.

I'm indebted to @Whispering_Jack for the information allowing me to select the two squads below. I suspect Jack didn't account for a rather famous match, though, and accordingly missed that Bluey Adams and Froggy Crompton were qualified. Jack also expressed some uncertainty about Ossie Green's and Jack Minnis's qualification but I've included them to give me two starting 18s - let's say for Jumpers v. Skins praccy match? No, that won't work; let's say for a Red Jumpers v. Blue Jumpers.

There appears to be only these 36 players who qualify for the squads, in all of the Club's 168-year history. Could there ever be an more? Possibly not. Past times lent themselves more to qualification: Joe Kinnear is pre-eminent among the 36. William McKenzie, William Hendrie and Dodger Evans (or was it Fred Harris? - a bit of confusion there, too, in Jack's records) share a next level of eminence above the rest.

I don't know where many of these old-timers played, so I've selected the squads entirely arbitrarily, based on alphabetical order. I wonder, though, which team would have won? Anyway, what links them all?

The Reds

  • F.Adams

  • W.Allan

  • W.Brunier

  • S.Charles

  • D.Clark

  • N.Crompton

  • H.Dean

  • A.Dullard

  • J.Evans

  • A.Farrow

  • A.George

  • W.Green

  • F.Harris

  • W.Hendrie

  • D.Heywood

  • J.Huntington

  • G.Hutchison

  • F.Kennedy

The Blues

  • S.Kerley

  • J.Kinnear

  • C.Lilley

  • R.McKenzie

  • W.McKenzie

  • J.Minnis

  • B.Monk

  • C.Niven

  • D.O'Dwyer

  • F.Rugolo

  • R.Stone

  • B.Scanlan

  • F.Scanlan

  • B.Shelton

  • S.Tingay

  • G.Walker

  • D.Ward

  • P.Williamson

 
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Don't be surprised, folks; @Demonstone has nailed it already. His prize - a second trophy cabinet - is on its way to him (I can hear his current one groaning from here).

But, as usual, and particularly pertinent, there are 3 prizes (perhaps more?) so plenty to play for still. Avago!

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