Demonstone

No, he just wrote the songs.

Some more incorrect answers to shrink the list of possibilities: * Their first names are not connected to company or corporation names * There is no connection to poets or poetry * Their first names, although some are most unusual, are not all unique (eg. Stan Alves/Stan Magro) I'm not sure I can provide any further clues without giving the game away. Let's just say that the solution may be said to border on the esoteric but I didn't think it would stump so many fine intellects. The connection is not that they share a name with any group of people or that their names relate to any other entity. There is an obscure hint in the OP.

As the stripper said to her TAFE class.

Tommy Hafey's gameplan back then was "Kick it to Royce".

Pay them no heed, Timothy. They have nothing to do with the answer.

I'm pleased to report that several posters have had a go at cracking this, all to no avail however. If prizes could be awarded for creativity and lateral thinking, there would be many, many winners. Those incorrect responses include the following: * They are the names of horses * Their first names are unique in AFL/VFL * They all made their debut at the MCG (possibly correct) * Their first names all appear in titles of movies * None of the names contain the letter Q (true, but ...) * Their first names are culturally related to their surnames (eg. an elf called Stan, a German called Carl) * At least two of them have lent their names to rhyming slang (Rex Hunt & Royce Hart). 🤣 I'm taking Timothy's advice and leaving it open. It would be a first for one of these teasers to go unsolved!

This morning's mail reveals two more incorrect attempts. These players didn't all have relatives who played AFL nor did they play for another club wearing the same jumper number. Given the quiet nature of the site at the moment, I'll leave this going for a while longer. I'll be away from the computer for a few hours and will post the answer this afternoon around 2pm. Clue: Focus on the players' first names. Fabulous prizes still be won!

Well, this has turned out to be a fizzer of a quizzer. I'll leave it open overnight and reveal the answer in the morning.

A couple of more answers have lobbed, neither of which is correct but both of which are in the right area. Not all the players have unique first names nor are they always called by both names by commentators. edit: No further submissions have been received. Will check back in a couple of hours.

Demonland has a pulse! There has been a response! Alas, it was incorrect. The players did not all appear for more than one club.

It's oh so quiet on Demonland at the moment that you could imagine Bjork writing a song about it. The footy season is over (we didn't win the flag), the trading period is done and dusted (we did well) and the National Draft awaits (we'll clean up). Following that is the summer hiatus with only training reports to occupy our Demon minds. Time then for another in the interminable series of brainteasers featuring a fictional team of past and present players who have been named mainly in their usual positions on the ground. Five former MFC players have made the cut. Like always, your challenge is to identify what links all these players. Answers in a PM only please! B: Byron Pickett Rex Hunt Easton Wood H/B: Bachar Houli Earl Spalding Setanta O' hAilpin C: Stan Alves Steele Sidebottom Clive Waterhouse H/F: Rene Kink Royce Hart Winston Abraham F: Eddie Betts Dermott Brereton Cyril Rioli R: Carl Ditterich Jaeger O'Meara Touk Miller I/C: Orazio Fantasia Jobe Watson Majak Daw Jamarra Ugle-Hagan

I have two questions. 1. Did Simon Goodwin also receive a ring? 2. If so, will there be any ring-kissing from fringe players trying to break into the side?

My first kick in Under 12s went through for a behind ... for the opposition. A loose ball luckily bounced my way in the back pocket, I grabbed it and kicked it and it grubbed off the side of my boot and rolled through the other team's goal. Things went downhill after that. I've always maintained that I could have played VFL but that my career was cruelly cut short by a tragic lack of talent and courage.

A poster from Amsterdam might consider adopting the username "Far Canal".

Would Cutler be the steak knives or the bloke who makes them?

Rest assured I was and remain unriled, Luci. Advance notice: new brainteaser to be unleashed Thursday afternoon around 4pm. You have been warned.

Taking a ruck as early as pick 13 would surprise me as we already have two automatic selections for that position in Gawn and Grundy. I think we'd be more likely to pick up a developing big man at 37 or (even more likely) in the Rookie Draft. A tall forward or a speedy mid/HB with good disposal would be more of a need with our first pick IMO.

Ok. Here's another question for you. What is it about calling Geelong "Jeelong" that is in any way funny or intelligent? Explain it to me if you could because I just don't get it.

Short of putting you on 'ignore', how does one avoid reading such tripe?

You're just being facetious, skort. Ooh, there's another one!

Really? Is there any other information other than Kane Cornes' self-confessed wild speculation?

"Pistachio ice cream" sounds very much like "you make a grown man cry" to my ears.

I think you've identified the right song, but the mistaken lyric is more likely to be "... you make a grown man cry".

Is it "Gimme Shelter" (It's just a shot away)? edit: No, it's not!

@FireInTheBennelly changed from FireInTheBelly after we recruited Harley Bennell.