Timothy Reddan-A'Blew

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)

Now they're coming...👍 📣 Hurry! Hurry! Hurry!📣

The May discussion took this thread off-piste (sp!) for a bit, so I'll take the liberty of another slide, onto a black run. Is it just me, or does the thread title look like it refers to the outlook for an item of dungeon equipment?

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!)

@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!

Maybe a 'please explain' letter to the AFL, co-signed by @Demonland (if I may be so presumptuous, Administrators?😏) and its (presumably) 17 peer groups? That'd be a group of some substance, not fearful of AFL revenge.

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.

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>

Congrats, picket: post #7000

👏 to all winners, particularly, to the triers, and of course to Our Puzzle Patron. As with the other time I was recused, I'm not sure I would have got it. But I'll pretend I would have!

The suggester either missed my last conundrum, or they were vying, rather belatedly, for its 6th prize and mis-addressed their PM! 😄

Well played, @Roger Mellie!

Confirming, Il Patrone, I am recused? But I'm humbly PM-ing you as to how you could fill that bench and sit a great coach beside them, for your delectation(?)

Kudos to you, 'Jeff' (I presume, as opposed to the agricultural professional?) I did miss them all. I was alive - just, and was a regular home and away attendee in the '60 and '64 seasons, on my 50-year-MCC-member grandfather's ladies ticket, available to kids under 12. Finals were not available to me, then. So it looks like you have me for age, too. I once attempted a survey on here, as to how big a cohort 'our' generation is in Demonland. Not a great response, but from people's stories from time to time, it does seem significant.

There's that one in The Godfather? Certainly apposite. Though perhaps a tad strong...

Honorary: 2x5 surname 😄

Btw, Timmy A'Blew wrote it... 🥺

Ouch. True. But ouch. Something in the 2x5-letters name? Harry Petty saying hello.

With the World Wide Web We're Whatever We Want to be! 😉

I'm with you, Jack! 😊

Very nice, @Whispering_Jack. Thanks! Timed, I imagine - closer to the new season than the old - to help prime our anticipation about this transformed group in the now-almost-close-enough-to-touch former. But surely someone will follow up, so it may as well be me (because I Can't Let Go)... I expect there to be, in 2026, lots of Chances, that we're always Taking The Chance as it presents, and, indeed, that there'll always be One More Chance to take. So, for 2026, Here I Am, Come What May. It may be Sweet Dreams, but... I do expect Miracles. Goodbye. Tim

Very nicely for this Tim, one of our other Tims - most uncomplicatedly, @Tim - takes home the 'Kinnear'. Well done to him! 👏 That's it then. Our 36 are all the players who wore 3 or more numbers in MFC seniors games. McKenzie, Hendrie, Evans and Harris wore 4. Kinnear, uniquely, wore 5 - in only 47 games! I believe the game missed by Whispering Jack was the 1958 GF, when players had to have new numbers, after the leak of their normal ones in the lead-up. Bluey and Froggy were the only ones that day who had worn, or would go on to wear, 2 other numbers.

Time to bring this baby home. For one last chance to grab prize 5, the 'Joe Kinnear' - excuse my apparent stutter: N...numbers.

By my count, it's even... Yep, I see the door...

I fear I might be in a very significant minority, but is there anyone else on here who would not have expected to be at the 'G, had it been there, and so is not burdened by a lack of fulfilment? (This is sacrilege, perhaps! - but we are Demons 😉) I was there for 1988 and 2000, but those miserable experiences (though joyously not repeated on the night in question 😊) aren't what influence me now. Age? The whole ticketing miasma? Crowd aversion? AFL overhyping? Cost? And with what I felt, almost constantly, from 21 August, through September, on the night of 25 September, and well into October 2021, and what I saw on the big screen and other media across that time, I'm imperceptibly short of fulfilment, if at all!