Timothy Reddan-A'Blew

Forgive me, all, as I briefly hijack this thread. It is one of the furthest of the current 'Recent Topics', on the front page of 'Land, from footy news and talk as @Demonland has rightly advised me is what we all most often come here for. I just wanted to let interested 'Landers (if any?!) know I've started a thread in the 'General Discussion' forum, away from disrupting footy discourse here, called 'CONUNDRUM CORNER'. It's for puzzles that will continue the occasional series started and so thoroughly maintained by @Demonstone these last 4 years, with a little bit of help from his friends. You won't see when there are recent posts there, so, creators and solvers, head on over there occasionally to see what's going down/up/around. We now return to normal transmission...

I want him to stay, and I reckon he does, for all the reasons put for that herein. Another take on the trade value, however: In the Bolton trade, Freo got player and 1161 draft points. Richmond got 3709-1161=2548 draft points. As a single pick, that's somewhere between 2nd and 3rd pick in the draft. As two picks in the first round it is, for example, 8th and 18th picks or 12th and 13th picks.

The Herculean @Demonstone has provided us with, by my count, 47 maddening conundrums over the last 4-odd (very odd?!) years. Moreover, in those 47, he's managed to alliterative entitle them with 19 of the 26 letters of the alphabet. I open this thread in honour of Mr Stone and: 1. Challenge him to raise his bat for a historic half-century; and 2. Challenge us to complete the alliterative set. G, H, R, U, V, W and X appear to remain. I reserve X (gulp) for myself!

North buttered up the next week, with Sydney, to kick a combined 32.18 (210) in the first half - the only aggregate of 200 points for a half in VFL/AFL history. Re @Sir Why You Little's observation, the premature injury loss of Owen did have the (eventual!) compensation of Jako - though another premature loss there followed... I've got mixed feelings about goal celebrations. I do like the 'get-around-him/her' aspect. Re past 'celebrations', a special oldie is Neil Crompton's run back to the backline in '64. It looked like he didn't quite know what to do (lack of practice?😉)

Was anyone at this? Supplementary question: Did Darren Cuthbertson, Luke Beveridge and Rod Owen share an ancestor? And three cheers for the early '90s, haircut-wise.

Ouch.

...not worn on game days, so all good then!

Did he take it? (Touch of the head drops, too...) It's all grist, though, for his improvement mill.

D-Litd

Koalas regularly appear in my manna gums. He/she/they are generically called Kenny. However, they may now need to be called Luci?!

...and my 'Thanks' emoji was ironic 😉

What, 'football related', could possibly distinguish St Kilda one-gamer, Chris Hemley?! Certainly not a stat! 😄

Could Neale somehow get to see all your words (which I share; thank you for finding them)?

Now I'm tempted, Mr. Stone. Really tempted...

'Kick it to me, Halfway!' Would require a strong lead...

...who used to look a bit like 'you' Ethan? Could be him, but a bit of weight and facial hair loss has been achieved:

Just noticed, RBF: when Ryleigh and Megan play in our next premiership, you're going to have to re-format!

@layzie, you'll have to help them; they appear not to digg it...

...and I felt the 'Sayers' thread could have been renamed 'Trooble at t'Park'

Putting aside the apparent uncertainty herein about whether the alleged involvement is as an advisor or a candidate, could someone put together a list of the AFL CEOs to ascertain how many of them also played or possess otherwise-accumulated footy knowledge?

Oooooh! That's better!

Ripper hyperbole, ripper! I nominate it for the thread that ought to be set up to collect such fine (and for-humour(?)) examples 😄

Thanks, @Ghostwriter! This thread is a stark reminder of how pleasantly trivial, diverting and consuming Demonland can be 😄 Do any of the names vary in the heat of match-day battle? TMac, for example, might be a bit of a mouthful? Does Clarry get Clazz much? (as used by Richo (*) in his interview, for example) Ditto Koz v. Kozzy/Kossie? Poor Harves had to take second best, eh? Ricky, though, hasn't been forced there by the 'unentitled' Rick. And, finally, we mourn the passing of the good old days: only 5 genuine 'nicknames' imagined by this Gen-something-or-other (and PC?) lot! (*) Perhaps a coaches' list, too, Ms Friendly Ghost?

How many words achieved without them? Is there a relevant Walkley category being vied for?