Demonstone

For those who came in late, here's Crompton's Cruel Cryptic ... Here is a team of past Melbourne players. This team is a little old fashioned as it only has 2 interchange players, and there are some names from very long ago. I spent (wasted) a whole afternoon trying to put this together, so i will be dejected if someone gets this "discombobulation" too quickly. B. Billy Deans Tassie Johnson John Beckwith HB. Frank Davis Joe Pearce Tony Sullivan C. Robert Flower George Bickford Stan Alves HF. Andrew Obst Earl Spalding Scott Thompson F. John Lord Fred Fanning Bob Johnson R. Jim Stynes Paul Wheatley Hassa Mann INT. Arthur Sowden Bill Allen Not one but two things link this team – one football related and one not. What are these 2 links?

If it's already been solved by two posters, it might be time to reveal the answer, put the rest of us dunderheads out of our misery and shift the focus to Crompton's double bunger. Personally, I'm suffering a little brainteaser overload so will hold off posting another for a week or two.

My copy arrived this morning, just in time to keep me company in front of the fire during this wintry lockdown.

Nicky Buckley, who I met when I was on "Sale Of The Century", is indeed a Melbourne tragic. She was our Number One Woman Ticketholder for four years back in the early 2000s until being replaced in this role by Terry Bracks, wife of the then Premier of Victoria.

Not just politicians, unfortunately.

Possibly a relative of Allan Jeans?

The time has passed for PMs which means I can now make a fool of myself in public. Could it be that they all share first names that sound like the first names of basketballers?

I think you're suggesting we need a "Suffer In Yer Jocks" emoticon.

Seeing as I was wrong, I can share my incorrect answer and prevent anybody else falling for the same trap. I thought all the players had at some stage suffered either a knee reco, a broken leg or a serious leg injury. Looks like I haven't got a leg to stand on!

I hadn't cracked it when I posted that, but I think I may have just found the answer and have sent a PM.

Your one is good 'un, WCW. Quality over quantity I reckon!

It's nice to have others putting up their puzzles as it gives me a chance to play. You should be warned that I still have another ten or so of my mindbenders in the bank!

Aha! Their christian names are shared by Australian wicketkeepers.

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It's another cricket reference. A long hop is a delivery that is short, slow and doesn't rise very high and which is easy pickings for the batsman - fruit for the sideboard, as the saying goes. I've come up with two possible answers to this pearler of a mindbender with all these cricket clues. 1. All the players named were cross-dressers and were caught in slips. 2. Because of their footy fame, they had no trouble bowling a maiden over.

I feel like I've been hoisted by my own Ricky Petterd here as I haven't a clue what the answer is. Kudos to Timothy. If Mazer has won the gold medal, I'd be lucky to earn rusty tin.

That's be us if we merged with Carlton. ?

Numbers 18, 22, 32 and 44 old bean.

You've got to feel a little bit sorry for the Hawthorn fans who now won't be able to go to the game. Both are reported to be devastated by the news.

Good luck with the latest lockdown, fellow Demonlanders. Here are some tips from NSW:

Five day Statewide lockdown from midnight tonight I just heard ...

There's already been a movie made about those dodgy removalists. The only question I have is who the hell is Kenny Carter?

Apart from Dyson and Dixon, they are all in alphabetical order by surname.

This was a reference to @JimmyGadson whose current and past username (Steve Jordan) are both drummers.