Timothy Reddan-A'Blew

Well done, Brett. In fact, well done all umpires.

Yes!? Glad it went well ☺️

Bairstow... Bairstow... Nup; can't place him. But I reckon Tommo, or Smitho, or Hibbo will go to him. Dees by an innings and 25 points.

Not Melbourne, but another Roy Boys one, and a bit of a surprise: Don Chipp, 3 games, 1947. I wonder how Curtin's notable eyes fared in games?

Good sub-quiz, with sample answers, @La Dee-vina Comedia and @radar. Let's see...

Looks pretty happy in the training vid. Regardless of when he returns, if he's happy, I'm happy. For me and for him.

That's brilliant, Radar! What research! A podium all to yourself! And thanks for playing 🙂 Speaking of podiums, though, @La Dee-vina Comedia got my intended famous one. Congrats! 'Twas...

🥺 for you. But you played, so 👏 Just remembered the '...one of the famous did have a notable football presence!...' bit ('the famous' now solved/revealed as PMs). Anyone care to guess who, and what?

Well, CAPITAL certainly! 😉

Next time, then, Layz? 'Everyone' might have over-implied its penetration! And good time?. Hmmm... 😄 Off 'on the road' now. Next puzzle in August. I'm thinking personal invitations, to get the two-dozen-plus 'regulars' out of the woodwork 🎣

With this quiz pretty much wrapped up, the topic starting, posting, searching and messaging involved has again reminded how impressive this site is. Thank you, @Demonland!

A pretty big 'Ooops!' from me: my 'coach' has, in fact, played 16 games. Thank you, @tilly18, for pointing this out, in PM-ing your correct answer. I hope you don't mind, @La Dee-vina Comedia, if I pop Tilly next to you on the first place area for this. I can only think the bio I read was from 2022. So it's not just any 16 games: they've been very recent and my coach is a Premiership Player! 🤦🏽‍♂️ So, my grovelling apologies to... ...HER!

...and rightly so! 👏👏👏 Last in to the quiz, LDVC is first with this particular 'first'. There's a big second area in the podium ready to acknowledge anyone else.

Ah. But the prime ministerial connection?

Well, that's weird: I wrote, and could swear I posted, an acknowledgement of your Alex Carey guess (noting it had confounded me!) and @La Dee-vina Comedia's and @tilly18's Deakyn Smith guess - all wrong btw. The 'ghost post' also welcomed LDVC to this supp. quiz. Alfred Deakin is before the 1923-2023 century. What's your Alex Carey connection?

...And does anyone know who this was, and in what way?

Meanwhile, who didn't miss this from the OP?... 'As usual, please make sure your answers are PMs!' I was also chuffed that HAROLD Stanley ended up in the SUB, fulfilling a famous conspiracy theory before that concept was supercharged by the internet! And Lew Gough (or one of the Edwards) would have tried to avoid the forward pocket this time round!

So... As our four place getters have identified, the squad provides the first names of Australia's 26 Prime Ministers since 10 July 1923, including Robert/'Bob' Menzies' and Kevin Rudd's double dips, and a 'Billy' for dear old Mr McMahon. As there were no Earles for Mr Page, or Goughs (though several Edwards) for E.G. Whitlam, surnames of the emergencies filled those gaps. That leaves the coach. @poita, @tilly18, @WalkingCivilWar, @Demonstone, @mo64, @Jumping Jack Clennett, and anyone else, care to guess who that is, from the OP?

Posted by our successful fourth-placer! Though so as not to usurp Malcolm Kennedy's squad-high 17 games, I'd bring in 3-gamer Edward Buckley.

New day, new clue (no new entrants...) This ought to do it for you, @Demonstone and @Jumping Jack Clennett: The slightly-differently-qualifying second emergency is Lew GOUGH.

But is Brodie's puppy?

'Show Me The Puppy' thread, Layz?

Footy Classified tonight. Shut UP!

MBJMcV! I think his 'then-to-now' arc bears comparison with Clayton Oliver's draft-year-to-first-year arc. And aren't a lot (most? all?) of our players, like Judd, so watchable?!

Happy to post to keep the thread 'northwards' @WalkingCivilWar, by posting my apologies: we'll be on the road northwards ourselves, into NSW by that time. Best wishes for a successful (and deservedly lucrative for the DA) event!