Timothy Reddan-A'Blew

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! 😇

Congrats on a fine year, Meggs @ @Demonland

Not sure he was that good looking, LG, but your fascination does have a place here. He went at 23 in his draft (2000). Our pick before (16) was a good'un...for another club: Scott Thompson. Not a great drafting year for us after the highs of that year, except for another pick deep in the rookie draft...for another club: Darren Jolly. Ross Funke added some naming fun, and Daniel Breese, well... Thereafter, a 'What ever happened to?' list: Mitchell Craig, Nick Gill, Kevin Devine, Mark Berts, Ben Doherty and Tom Marshall.

Thanks!👍 2025 BnF, I presume? Umps' rising star an interesting one.