Timothy Reddan-A'Blew

May I join you in your umbrage, @beelzebub?

I thought this one was all over, but, out of the clouds has come @Tim to correctly and succinctly articulate the balance. Welcome to Demonland Puzzledom, Tim*, and enjoy your 'silver' of quiet satisfaction. I feel bound now to upgrade @Demonstone's participation award to the 'bronze'. With early dedication, he established that the totals of the letters of the players' given names and family names were the same (136). Definitely a 'balance' I hadn't considered, a direct arithmetic consequence of the full answer, and true of the team list. But it missed the further balances in the team as positioned. @Ghostwriter twigged early that there must be a reason why I had to call our coach 'Steve'. The given names and family names of the players in my 'spine' - the centre column - are all in balance, having the same number of letters. Down the outer side of my field - the left column - the given names all have one letter less than the family names, but that's balanced down the other side - the right column - by the given names having one letter more than the family names. 'Counting on me to spell out the answer'? 'Centre your thoughts and you'll be left right there with the answer.' @beelzebub started to get close but he was looking across the lines. I'll give your VC-grade participation ribbon to him, Mr Stone, if that's OK? I'll dust off my own Grade 1 egg-and-spoon an sack race ribbons to placate @Little Goffy and @Neil Crompton. Thanks for playing, everyone. As usual, I feel bound to apologise! (*I assure players Tim and I are 2 different people, btw. He's not a straw-man me to help bring this to a close!)

Riley Butalsoe?

Are you counting on me to spell it out, perhaps, LG? You, too, @beelzebub, and any others lurking secretly? @Demonstone, you were so, soo, sooo close, too.

Yep: the old 'GW' has made two years necessary now to get that number of certain days of snow...

WE HAVE A WINNER! @Ghostwriter COME ON DOWN! If the W Awards venue is still set up, that would be fitting!

@Ghostwriter has just PMd me a pic of that piece of paper!

@Ghostwriter has spotted something important. She now teeters between glory and madness. No clues there. Just a sympathetic observation. You don't need anything else but that team sheet to find the balance I claim for it. Concentrate: centre your thoughts and you'll be left right there with the answer.

Yep, to a degree and to the right degree. It's a bit of a worry for me; it came out in the Club welcome interview ('I'm charismatic'!) and we see it a bit again in the 'Mic'd Up' from the community camp, I think. I wonder what the other boys think, or will come to think? @DeeZone: from an earlier post you seem to know him? What do you think?

So, 🦗🦗🦗, somewhat! 😏 Amazingly - for what he came up with, not that he did come up with something, of course - @Demonstone has given me 2 answers that apply and are direct consequences of the intended actual answer. He has the Victoria Cross of 'participation' awards accordingly. But the hard-currency medals are all still up for grabs. The answer is not related to footy, or to MFC, or to anything beyond them. It's all there right in front of you on the page in the OP.

Eden, Chloe, come on down to the Rolling Hills of Gippsland: Casey out the back door and Heaven out the front!

I'm sorry I haven't made it this easy for you all!...

Nice memory, BB! It's an under-appreciated aspect of Demonland, being a source of nostalgia.

Be proud of it, Robbie. It's a nice bit of off-season-filling you've achieved for us! 😊

You tease, @Demonland. With that title change. So, not wearing the Red n Blue in Season 11! Would have been a bit like that famous church sign: 'What would you do if Jasmine Garner came to Melbourne?' 'Drop Kate Hore to Vice-Captain.'

LOL...

It is called a 'community camp', so you'd expect 'the community' would be welcome! I think they were last year?

Gotta keep this on the board with a comment, @Six6Six! It's obviously a 'slow burn' 😊 Demon Army, does 🎶'Glory, Glory, Red and Blue, yeah! The Dees go marching on!'🎶 have any match-day potential?

...of me? ...out of here?

An objective sometimes thrown up at Draft time is 'team balance'. I reckon our chaps did a pretty good job on this but fell a bit short. They did a good job bringing in Xavier Taylor, Latrelle Pickett, Riley Onley, Kalani White and Oscar Berry, but I suggest, in letting Christian Petracca, Clayton Oliver, Charlie Spargo and Deakyn Smith - yes, Deakyn Smith! - go, and retiring Nathan Jones early, they missed a greater opportunity. Credit to the Board, though, for its contribution to balance in its selection of our new coach (he's such a good fit, and already so familiar, that I feel quite comfortable moving on already from 'Mr King' to 'Steve') This team might not seem balanced, but it really is. Why? [PMs, blah, blah, blah - you know the drill!] B: Jake BOWEY Xavier TAYLOR Kalani WHITE HB: Jake LEVER Blake HOWES Nathan JONES C: Xavier LINDSAY Bailey LAURIE Christian PETRACCA HF: Trent RIVERS Daniel TURNER Clayton OLIVER F: Bayley FRITSCH Harry SHARP Latrelle PICKETT Foll: Max GAWN Kysaiah PICKETT Charlie SPARGO I/C: Jack VINEY Riley ONLEY Deakyn SMITH Shane McADAM Oscar BERRY Coach: Steve KING

No? Course maintenance compound, for which alternative premises need to be found?

I think they're dropping 'The' and 'Centre'. They're still 'impressions, BB, but the following has just dropped. Sack the copy-proofer, though; can someone correct?...

Don't worry about this, Rodney. The discussion was about the value of the Club's history (vs looking to its future) to the Club. not to the 'outside world'. It seems to be in good hands in the former.

I certainly, even particularly, meant that cohort, Rodney, for what they bring from the Club's history. 'History' in this discussion does them an injustice; they are very much 'present'. Their potential and actual contribution is tangible. The older cohorts, infirm or departed, can still provide models of attitudes to the Club and to life, though, for our cohorts current and yet to come, as they make, then go on to represent, history* for the Club. (*...and now, into the spotlight, herstory)

2060, eh, Dub? There's a fair group on here who'll have to be with you just in 'spirit'. Represent them well! 😇