Timothy Reddan-A'Blew

...and there's a little face-the-crowd cheer-leader-in-waiting over in our bay. Kept us going nicely. Sign him up, DA!

You can sit at the near edge of the GA bays abutting the DA's bays, like we do. Chants and the rest of the good vibe very easy to join in on (though there is the occasional oppo stirrer to contend with!)

Not commenting on BG's future; just noting Max, in his interview with Jack V this week, said AA ruckman Mark Jamar never let him win a ruck contest at training but Verrall manages to beat him on occasions.

So, so many to choose from, but...

Thanks for yet another challenge, good sir! I'm sure you have a Max-like 200 in you and look forward to them all 🙂 Nominating 'lead singers', I went too specific first up, but also not specific enough in presuming Rod Stewart, Van Morrison, etc.. So, per my most recent PM, somewhere between a 'Do'h!' and a 'Grrrr!' 😉

This thread should attract more individual posters than any other, ever. I was there the day the gangly lump kicked 4(?) at Casey. I attach myself to all the foregoing about Max and, I suspect, to all that will follow here!

...Though if really strongly dislike (I hate the word 'hate') is the criterion, a premiership-winning year out of that May-chopper Hawkins would be my Number Two(s).

Tritto.

He sure is.

I like Grundy in for Petty. However, Goodwin made a bit of a point of how Petty and Van Rooyen combined being part of the last 2 weeks of success in the forward line. Grundy can possibly match Petty in individual capabilities but I wonder whether the 'combo' effect can be matched? Can that be trained, and embedded, particularly in the short time frame since the need arose?

Timmy-Timmy said it, too. There's always two in a shell...

Pics for the 'Show Me The Puppy' thread, please, IHW!

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.