Timothy Reddan-A'Blew

Breeze up a bit now, for what that's worth at this stage...

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Not those other beats around the ground, though. Headache inducing!

Welcome back Demon Army btw! Love the sight! And the beat!

Next test: Can they sustain the pace through a full(ish) game?

CJ out on the ground, doing run-throughs, under staffer instruction. Testing?

Fixed!

Shortened quarter (2 min). Heat?

Negligible.

Yeah. The last thing you want in road transport activity is any back ending...

AI, 'Finance' and the transport industry. Fingers crossed. melbournefc.com.auDriversDepot now driving the DeesMelbourne has a new co-principal partner.But welcome, and thanks for your confidence.

And...?

...and Zanker, Cordner and <cough> Birch.

'...will sit out the 2026 season'. Does Blaithin say this literally, Poita, if you were able to get access? Or anyone else? And is there qualification, like 'and definitely only 2026', or 'then we'll see what happens', or 'but it could well be permanent'? If she's like Sinead, at 35, Blaithin, at 26, still has a few more years that she can give two or three or more of to the Dees. I presume the AFL will break its habits to let this happen, and automatically and straightforwardly!

Can't help myself... I've stuck my own head into 'O Week' for the PhD, to find that, in that 1912 list, there is a qualifier: BOBBY MONK. Interestingly, that year he kicked 9 goals in 2 x 9 = 18 games. So much to learn about our Grand Old Club 😊

@deemoralizing67 has also had his investigative juices stirred and, kudos to him, found another player who briefly qualified in his 2 games for us in 2019 (though this is back beyond the 2023-onwards window I chose for my 'fun fact'*): KADE KOLODJASHNIJ. (* A PhD awaits anyone prepared to research our lists all the the way back to 1912)

And another new player (I think?) has joined us, and likewise with great success: well done @Mickey! My faith in Demonland Puzzledom is returning; I may have to source a new suite of prizes for that cupboard?

A new player, I think, has entered the Puzzledom fray and with great success: well done @Domgus Petrogan, for finding the link. I hope recognition, praise and the admiration of your Demonland peers suffice, Dom; my cupboard of creative digital prizes is finally bare!

@Demonstone has caught me out! (at least I know this one piqued his interest enough to do some more research😉) LACHIE HUNTER made for a threesome with Clarrie and Pig in 2023, and a duo with Clarrie in 2024. As HOMER SIMPSON might have said,... 'A dozen times, D'oh!'

If you got 'Trivialissimo' just now, Il Padrone, I wouldn't have thought this one was too much of a problem? It's sort of the same 'depth' (or lack thereof), I think?

Not totally surprisingly, @Demonstone has cracked this one first. Well done him! - again! 😄 The 'personal' and 'playing' characteristics are both very visible and obvious, as in not hidden or subtle. Anyone else, then?

...aka, another (mini) quiz. It is - in my albeit poorly populated and managed mind - a little 'fun fact'. Not a team or squad this time; rather, a couple of individuals for whom you need to find what combination of personal and playing features links them. I've discovered that, in 2023, across all of both our AFL and AFLW lists, only MICHAEL HIBBERD and CLAYTON OLIVER had the combination. Then Michael retired, so, in 2024, only CLAYTON OLIVER had the combination. But then, in 2025, MOLLY O'HEHIR joined us; so, with CLAYTON OLIVER, we were back to two. That was short lived. Clarrie has left us, and now only MOLLY O'HEHIR has the combination. What is that combination? There are now two notes I must make: Answers by PM only Apologies @Cranky Franky

Bulldogs territory, surely! But impressive if the Ballarat oval retains its sponsor that long...

(I presume you meant Joh Bjelke-Petersen, not one of Cam Petterson's(*) forebears?) You remember Joh because he and your Great Grandmother were ... what? 😲 (*Hoary old Demonland chestnut😄)

Every once in a while, Demonland delivers education (never mind that pesky sport, humour, etc!) Your assertion drove me to google; well, as far as its 'AI Overview', anyway. You are indeed right: apparently 'Bananas were first introduced to North Queensland in the 1870s by Chinese immigrants and cane workers from Fiji', whereas 'Carnarvon Bananas' are 'Grown on...plantations along the Gascoyne River in Western Australia, a tradition dating back to the 1840s'!