Timothy Reddan-A'Blew

@radar - From reverseaustralia.com My interest was piqued because of the book. I have it; it's a good one. I hope they update it before I 'shuffle off'!

SS actually said we're "really" close, but then stumbled into "than we have been before". Clear as the winter Glenferrie Oval 😄

Anything in the speeches, or in side conversation, about the women's program and/or the women's coach?

Someone remind us what the particular emotional, social and/or 'football' connections he had with us? As to attractiveness from a football perspective, the 2026 performances of our new and new-ish young brigade might be more important than ladder position?

Paste to look closely, G?

Live stream link on the Club's website.

Very disappointing, Brownie. Training is evidently a great opportunity to engage with Club folks, for those comfortable to do so. @Ghostwriter, or one of the other track watchers: post the AGM, if there's nothing clear from it, could you ask Paul or anyone else with relevant authority, at training, what's going on with the Club and its women's program?

Any inside info, anyone? The Austin and Horisk 'ins' appear to be positive, but I'm a bit paranoid, what with the other 'outs' as well, in the context of Mick's departure and no replacement (or even a 'process'?) confirmed.

Well played on both fronts, P. 😢

@Demonstone, we have established previously that hints from the successful are a definite no-no. However, and particularly for His (pre)Eminence the Puzzles Patron's puzzles, I reckon open discussion of the setter's hints is a yes-yes! And good luck to whoever turns said discussion into success! So... Hmmm: 'positions', yes, but 'places on the field', no! 🤔 And... No MFC players undoubtedly is significant! 🤨 Because, say, each team member matches an MFC player in some way? 🔬 Humbly, I look forward to your resounding squashes, Mr Stone!

I was just trying to be funny, Mr Stone. You're not trying to tell me this is actually about team members' attitudes on something (and football based), as opposed to their places on the field?!

On what football-based issues?

You're clearly in the box seat. Kudos.

Lucky we didn't make that 'popular' coaching decision. That really would have been the icing on the cake!

Makes me wonder who he'll model himself on. Viney?

Clarifying for readers and contributors, the topic is the team of the whole of the 21st century, as 2100's selectors might see it, not the team just of its first quarter. My reference to the latter was just as a notable milestone of the century, as an excuse to think about the former. But Werridee's team provides a 'roller' towards the end objective (don't forget that extra I/C and Emerg. required, W!)

Can you?

DEFINITES Probables Possibles Add J.White to the IC, and Johnstone or Woewodin to the Emerg.

Thanks, @WERRIDEE; your patented 'rolling squad' is a useful addition to the discussion. I trust you'll be around to maintain it through to 2100? (Meanwhile, btw, you need another interchange and emergency) I'll take the liberty of using it in a follow-up post to highlight Definites, Probables and Possibles as identified by feedback so far. I sincerely hope at least 21, and preferably a few more, of those names have dropped out by then! Otherwise this century will have been a distressingly pale comparison with much of the last for MFC! Thanks, @whatwhat say what for posting the 20th century's team, particularly to aid the 'calibre comparison' in my OP. Werridee's right that this century's team would be a fresh one, not a roll-on from the last (though perhaps, come 2058, the Club might pick a Bicentennial Team?) The posted 20th century team also highlights the skew towards our golden era (and not-so-golden eras), to the TV era that began then and has been 'recording' ever since. By this stage last century, assessed 3/4 of it later, only Chadwick and Warne-Smith had qualified. And in the next 'quarter', only Cordner, La Fontaine, Lock, Meuller and Smith were added. Would an electronic age then have provided evidence for more? There should be no such problems in 2100.

The end of the first quarter of the century is approaching. How near do we think the team is to commensurately being a quarter filled? How many have already demonstrated they are of the calibre of the 28 members of the 20th century's team? Can we find 7? M.Gawn must be a lock. D.Neitz is probably a lock. Does N.Jones also get in on weight of numbers and stick-with-it-ness, Gary-Hardeman-like? Did we lose C.Petracca too early? His 212 games does compare with G.Wells' 224 and S.Alves' 226, though. K.Pickett is on track. After that, are any of the following 'up there' - Bruce, Davey, Green, J.McDonald, Robertson, J.Viney, White, Yze? Are any of our current 'youth' prospective? As to the coach, I hope the next 3 quarter centuries deliver someone to surpass, by a significant distance, the current front-runner, S.Goodwin!

Hang on a tick!...

I hope the AFL steps in to 'equalise'. Kangas, Power and Saints have unfair numerical advantages (😄)

'Stalled', you say? Well, it is there for horses...

The facilities look pretty vacant, G, in contrast to the stack of vehicles evident in google satellite view. Are they vacant? It would remove facilities relocation from the issues to be faced.

Well, Disco now has another 5 years to work into captaincy contention! 😊