Timothy Reddan-A'Blew

Next, then - these twenty-three MFC men select themselves. Where's the 'tether'? (PM me) John Lord, Hassa Mann, Ken Emselle, Bob Gormly, Ted Lees, John Toll, Darryl Schwarz, Peter Weekes, Greg Wells, Ray Carr, Stephen Kerley, Kim Smith, John Tossol, Steven Stretch, Mark Bradly, Mark Jamar, Nick Smith, Kyle Cheney, Jack Watts, Max Gawn, Mitch Clisby, Ben Kennedy, Tim Smith. The squad of 23 is sufficient for a modern team but I doubt they'd compete; several have single-figure games tallies, and they wouldn't have all positions covered, I'd say. But it is a unique squad, consisting of players who debuted with the Dees since my childhood second favourite player, John Lord RIP, himself debuted. For nothing other than convenience, I've listed them in debut date order.

Um, I think I pipped him? But, by our mutual 'Likes', I think we're happy to share?!

Ziggy's flash?

Ah, so it's not Domino's! (My shock-face reaction was to a tattoo of same, not the product. To pizza, of any persuasion, I too am partial. Indeed, fully!) Nothing from me just yet, then, WCW; you have the floor.

I shall care for them as if they were family (my own being so remote in our current dystopia...)

Would everyone like another? It is only Tuesday, on a slow football week. Not.

*cough*: DS?...

DS, you could almost have got away with subbing Essendon's Bruce Dodson in for our Nathan😁...

Snap, Earl!

Jesse kicking a bag would provide a sentimental bone of interest. Otherwise I'm in the Beat Each Other Up camp.

No Dees. Thoughts?

We will. And we will.

As I was listening, was thinking all the things I'd say about Gus. Then read on and found you'd said them all! Thank you, everyone Would just add, through the constant and widespread messaging, I'm genuinely believing now that the players are genuinely playing for US!

Ah, yes, of course! But 'twas a product of a unique, exploitable and fleeting perversity of rules. Our legion arises from a settled and competitive rules regime. But, with Stan Alves involved, underdog-ness, premiership virginity, victories over disliked teams (I never hate), quirky stars, etc, North's exploits then (but definitely not since) provided me some engagement and thrill when my team's weren't, so much!

Prefer - GWS. We can beat both but a GWS game will bring much less emotional baggage (for me, mainly!) Believe - GWS. Loss of Greene isn't all-or-nothing. GWS emotionally high after last weekend, Geelong shot. Geelong playmakers can be more easily identified, planned for and dealt with.

A subset question to your OP one, Dan: Has a club - MFC particularly but indeed any club - ever put together a better, larger group of 'foreign legionnaires' than our club has? Five 'starting 22' in May, Lever, Tomlinson, Langdon and Brown plus door-knockers Hibberd and Melksham. Throw in Majak Daw and Mitch Brown if depth is needed for a tie-break.

If the West Australians can match the South Australians of last weekend (and I think they might actually do better) then we'll do all right, I reckon. Particularly if GWS is the away team.

A timely thread, Girl; I was looking for somewhere to say I realised some time (well!) after midnight last night that I was overdosing on Demonland. Time for a break!

The person airlifted to hospital: was he the same one Ch7 interviewed? Remarkable recovery!

Knowledgeable. Insightful. Measured. Unaffected. Humble. Humorous. Confident. Loyal. Real.

Thanks for this commentary everyone! As some have said, and no doubt everyone has thought, What. A. Night. Apart from the Charlie/Flag/Norm trifecta, one other item to tick off to make it a quaddie: Coach(*) Of The Year. (*which would be 'Coaches' in our case) (Quiet note to AFL: it's 'centre', not 'center')

Magic, WJ. Kudos. This year, and last Saturday in particular: The Gift That Keeps On Giving. And is it time for a 'Like' button that likes every post in a thread? I've been having daily guilt pangs this week...

As it will be this year, too (hopefully one S. Goodwin...)

Can't help myself, Colin...😏

Cards, keep it, you young whipper-snapper; you can look forward to being less and less worried about wuss as you get older. Take it from me.