Timothy Reddan-A'Blew

15th

The Club's article has her as a 'tall 'forward'. This comes across as a 'we lost Eden but here's Mia' play. It's 5'10" replacing 6'0", actually, but the highlights do show a bit of Eden-like ability and aggression. We'll see. Though it does offset, a little bit, any misgivings that the Zanker trade was 'unders' (I personally think the end result of 2 first round picks for a team that finished 3rd ain't so bad...)

...just in case he doesn't make it and he has to be - in the modern commercial vernacular - sundried...

...while the opposition plays ketchup..

Curiously no media interest in it either?

Good luck to him, and not a surprise. But I'm uncomfortable with the speed of it.

6, if you <cough> believe Judd...

Very sorry to see Eden go (we have a pet in the family named for her, as posted elsewhere sometime 😊🥺) As to the trade, though, it's interesting to note she wasn't top 10 in the 'Daisy', despite her goals tally (while co-forward Alyssa B was, despite what appeared to be a poor - and definitely low-goals - season).

Becoming serious? Nope, that's not it.

Triplets, then...

'Our good friend Geoff' stands alone among Melbourne players for his 2 goals being the top score in his 1 game. But, to 2008 (I'm relying on my 150th anniversary MFC history) he is joined by only 3 others kicking 2 goals in their 1 game. Graeme Aubrey's 'Margitich' was the 1968 season's end. He debuted in the last game - like Frood, in a big loss to Richmond, 'away'. He kicked 2.2, and his 19 possies was 4th best, behind only B.Dixon, H.Mann and another. Many MFC champs were lesser lights than Graeme that day. He remained on the list in '69 but never delivered on his 1 game's promise. 'Midget' Arthur Britt kicked a quarter of MFC's score (two others also kicked 2) in a win against Carlton in 1902. More we cannot say, except that he was cleared to St Kilda for 1903. An 'Edwardian Clarrie' perhaps? 1954 Footscray premiership player John Kerr transferred to MFC during 1958, to second-top-score in round 15 at Glenferrie Oval behind A.Webb (6). He made it no further, who knows why, and certainly not to that year's fateful grand final... No 1-gamer has bagged 3.

What was your source, btw, @Little Goffy? Also, à la @Demonstone, maybe a reveal of the more subtle clues (Andrew Gaff. Dammit!)

Do NOT apologise! As I've already said and spent waaaay too much on it, just this, then: Excellent quiz 👏 p.s. (post spew) Confession #1: I was never close. Confession #2: It hurts just a little bit cos it's just the sort of quiz I'd have set. So a mix of inadequacy and jealousy!)

Tick, tick, tick...

I already have. Several times. I've had both enough cause AND enough time to do so. 😄

As the saying would have it, I was invoking the requirement of desperate times.

@demon-4-life, exceptionally well done! Now, then; I believe it is customary for winners to grin by joining in the hinting?

Ergo, Viney x 2, Lyon, Healy and Flower are also not eligible?

It's curious that no one has cracked it (as opposed to cracked it, as I think we all have done or are about to do!) I hope we're not going to find there's been some flaw or transgression in your construction or clueing @Little Goffy. It's been too much 'fun' for it to come to that end!

A very nicely crafted post, LG. Didn't get me anywhere. But, yeah, very nicely crafted. (p.s. As gauntlets are thrown down, not at, I guess I shouldn't be surprised at its sinking...)

Fair point. Though why, then, has the AFL made it so (apparently) difficult (= expensive) for the 19th team to enter? And they've set a pretty high financial bar, for themselves and for all the funding parties, for the 20th.

Building more together | LEGO Australia extends I really thought they might have regretted their decision to align with us so overtly as 2025 so quickly unravelled. Dare I say it, they might be seeing that we're getting the building blocks together for lasting success!

AFL playing a long game? Now amalgamation will become a more arguable option, replacing - or at least improving on - relocation. Particularly if (when) Tassie becomes an attractive, Geelong-like powerhouse from AFL largesse and persistence and Tasmanian passion.

@Little Goffy, is there anything you can share with us that supports your contention in your OP that this is 'so obvious'? The worst you could do is finally make it just that.

Darn! That was going to be my guess!