Demonstone

My teachers accused me of being a plagiarist. Their words, not mine.

Nibbler copped four weeks for a sling tackle. It's hard to argue that Stewart's act was not worse. edit: *snap DZ

Roughly translated, it means "Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries". I think.

Geelong asking for three weeks, AFL want four. Stewart won't be playing against us.

That's his brother, Ben.

I'd be rapt to land either of these two, but if Carlton matched the offer (and I reckon they would), a trade would then become necessary. This is what happened with Jeremy Cameron to Geelong.

Stewart has nothing to deal with. He has no leverage in such a confected outcome. All he can do is plead guilty or not guilty and the answer there is plainly obvious.

Majak goes with my very best wishes for the next stage in his life. Never got to play a game for Melbourne, but did his best for Casey.

If we snaffled both of them, that would be a very Goodyear.

Boom boom boom!

Stewart has been referred directly to the Tribunal with the offence graded as "careless" (ha ha), "high" and "severe".

If Stewart's action wasn't deliberate, you have to wonder what else his intention could have possibly been.

Hawthorn had seven (!) in 2015 - McEvoy, Lake, Frawley, Gunston, Hale, Gibson and Burgoyne.* Richmond had six in 2017 - Houli, Prestia, Nankervis, Townsend, Caddy and Grigg, as did Sydney in 2012 - Mumford, Kennedy, Richards, Mattner, Morton and Shaw. * Strike Burgoyne off that list - he played in Port's flag in 2004 before his Hawthorn career.

Yes Timothy, those five were excluded so as to not make it too obvious. Brainteasers are meant to be hard to solve. That's the point of them.

Dee Zephyr has come home with a late run to claim third. The answer is that all these players won their first premiership playing for their second club. Given the general lack of interest in today's quiz, I'll hold over some others I have prepared for a later date. Thank you to those who did participate.

Silver has been won by reynolds46, leaving just third place up for grabs. Another clue: today's answer is purely football based.

QED.

Because he retired in 1998 and is now a rotund 57 year old?

Just like 1964, Neil Crompton has come up with the winner and takes home the gold medal today. I'll take pity on everybody else and reveal that, as opposed to my usual method, the answer has nothing to do with the players' surnames.

We can eliminate the following incorrect suggestions that the players share a surname with: boxers bushrangers cricketers brain surgeons (or rocket scientists!)

Hoist by my own Ricky Petard, it would seem! I've had that album since 1978 and in my mind's eye I always thought they'd misspelt the title as "Greivous".

You're saying that she IS a sports journalist amid a sea of mediocrity and you don't rate her. That's fair enough. As far as Martin Flanagan goes, he is one of the very best writers I've had the pleasure of reading.

It's time to saddle up the old grey matter and take it for a gallop again, cowboys and cowgirls. The team below is a far from star-studded line up of players all from the AFL era (post 1989). What do they have in common (apart from that)? I've tried to make this teaser easier than recent ones. Then again, I already know the answer. Prizes are of an alliterative nature in keeping with today's tortured thread title (another alliteration actually). First: Nowt Neil Crompton Second: Nihil reynolds46 Third: Nothingburger Dee Zephyr As always, answers to me in a PM please, or you may send in your responses written on the back of a $50 note. B: Matthew Hogg Darryl Wakelin Glenn Manton H/B: Shane Morwood Craig Bolton Brent Montgomery C: Sean Denham John Blakey Dean Laidley H/F: Peter Wilson Barry Hall Tyson Stenglein F: Paul Williams Paul Barnard Doug Barwick R: David Hale Shaun Grigg Kym Koster I/C: Martin Mattner Dean Rice Shane Biggs Ted Richards

"Greivous Angel" is one of my all-time favourite albums and still sounds great today. It's a shame that Gram Parsons is not more widely recognised.