It's a quiet Saturday night (🥺), the single malt(s) kicked in, and @Demonstone's most recent is but a distant (well, 48-hour) memory. Time to fill that personal and community void.

Puzzles can be quite educational about our Club; for example, directing puzzlers to snippets of its history. My last effort brought to your attention its quirky triple-plus-numbered cohort. Here now is one that will bring your attention to an aspect of relative gravitas; one that spans the decades from the first of the last century to the here-and-now.

Of our current list, only the following players have something that connects them with that aspect of history. What, of that history, do they share?

• Jake Bowey

• Max Gawn

• Steven May

• Shane McAdam

• Jake Melksham

• Brodie Mihocek

• Harrison Petty

• Jacob Van Rooyen

• Jack Viney

<Insert standard 'PMs only' message>

The attempts are starting to come in. Get in quick, folks!

Just to remind you, though: only the named players share the 'something'. No other players on our list have it.

@demon-4-life took up the cudgels moments after the OP, was onto something early, but kept kicking behinds.

But he has goaled at last! To him, the honoured top of the podium. Well done, sir!

Plenty of room left on that podium (I have timber and tools standing by for extensions as required). So come on; jump on up!

Edited Sunday at 07:035 days by Timothy Reddan-A'Blew
p.s. It doesn't have anything to do with goals and behinds. That one's just been nailed by @demonstone!

Well, you can lead a horse to water, but...

It seems I have to nag(*), then.

So, although I'm not entitled to expect anything, won't anyone else join our role model, @demon-4-life, and subject themselves to the delights and quirks of MFC's VFL/AFL history?

To give you a very small kick(*) along: unless you want to for interest's sake, you don't need to look at the 1890s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1960s or any other decade then until our current one.

(* These are not a share-relevant puns!)

Now they're coming...👍

📣 Hurry! Hurry! Hurry!📣

I'm a little despondent. Two players and one other evident reader.

Roll on the football...

Anyway, I'm going to be out off the board for a few days, so one last bump before this drops of the bottom of the Home page, and I'll give you 'all' the answer on return.

Meanwhile,

• '...entitled...'

• '...subject...'

and

• '...lead...'

• '...role model...'

and

• 1900s, 1910s, 1950s and 2020s (and 2010s - my mistake there)

I’m struggling, too! ( no need for a PM !)

On 04/02/2026 at 08:26, Timothy Reddan-A'Blew said:

I'm a little despondent. Two players and one other evident reader.

Don't worry about it. Take a tip from me quizzes are passe' - very 1970's & out of fashion.

Hopefully even Demonstone will stop trying to [censored] a dead horse.