Timothy Reddan-A'Blew

...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

It's not struck before, but love-child (love-forebear?) of D.Schwartz and D.Neitz?

The sad emoji was about Tracy, GD, not a reflection on your response. Subsequent feedback much appreciated. And insularity? Me, too! Preparing the quiz widened my horizons!

How can I resist an appeal like that?! The general connection is their first names are all Australian-region cyclone names. The specific connection is that these names for cyclones have all been 'retired' due to the high human and/or economic impact of the cyclones so named.

Just for you, then (not evident that anyone else is eavesdropping 😄), a recap: ''Tis in season' and 'timely' - the answer, that is (and still very much so according to the news) The season is in Australia's part of the world 'Mess' - a lot - and 'Furious', and 'Hold on to your hats!' We're talking waaaaay bigger than watermelons Not football-related and it's nothing about the players themselves The list was re-ordered, from alphabetical to... What other common ordering bases are there? Well, there's numerical? Or there's...? The squad is mixed - boys and girls When I had to bring in Northey, I had to drop Tilbrook The medals on offer are Emergency Services medals I wondered if the wind was being put up me. I will get more blatant as necessary!

Another day n more o' them insects...

No longer "@picket fence"; Surely, now, "Epicket fence"!

@red and blue forever, here you go... [email protected]

Yeah, I checked him, too, ET. I agree. Different cartoon style, too.

And coming up the outside, from nowhere, is @tilly18, to take State Emergency Services Gold medal for being first to identify the 'general' commonality. The Fire Service's Silver medal and Ambulance Service's Bronze medal remain to be awarded, as do still three Furious framings for the 'specific' commonality. Coincidentally, I had Tilbrook in my original squad, but he had to give way to Northey so it could have a coach.

...and Hope?

...and The Lady Gawnevere?

Let me get that table going round: Sir Harvey Langcelot.

MFCSS nerves when 'break' and 'out' are mentioned...

Well, new day, new clue. It looks like only @Little Goffy and @Go Ds remain tuned in (*) so they're in the front-running to get medals, which are repurposed Emergency Services medals. (* Why is that? I'm feeling a bit miffed: where are you all that @Demonstone, and even you 'EasyGoffy' 😉, manage to keep on the hook? Perhaps actual football is getting in the way, now, particularly for track watchers like @Ghostwriter and @Harvey Wallbanger? Dare I say it's putting the wind up me?)

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

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!

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?

A curious comment, PK? Tell us more?

He just needs to wait, Rod...

So that's what was missing! Here we go, then, 'nicely' removed from 'nauseatingly nice'.

Could you post the photo, please, @red and blue forever? Cropped screenshot uses least bytes.

Here you go, then: Daisy Pearce Ted Cordner Alby Rodda Simon Eishold Jason Norrish Ivor Warne-Smith Mark Jackson Ian Ridley Warren Dean Frank Adams Barry Bourke Olivia Purcell Coach: John Northey Chris Connolly Graham Osborne Harvey Langford George Moodie Jasmine Grierson Marcus Seecamp Trevor Johnson Damien Gaspar Harold Ball Gabrielle Colvin Megan Fitzsimon

@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...

@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.