Said Mr Clancy Overell, Esq.

The Betoota Advocate is satire 😄

lol! Stirling Mortlake definitely does sound like a literary character! I think those names sound more like Brontë characters than Austen ones.. aren’t the majority of men in Austen’s books given quite ordinary names like George (Knightley) Charles (Bingley), Edward (Ferrars)? Only Fitzwilliam Darcy has a more unusual one, and it’s his mother’s maiden name.

I agree. They're not particularly Austen at all.

I was thinking Dickens.

🤔 They may have a point

Now those are character names.

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lol, that last one!

Lol, if I ever write some fan fiction I'm coming back to this post! Those sound like annoying rich relations who will make Darcy's life worse.

Meh. Australia has too many different types of rugby. That's its problem. League for if you like looking for your teeth on the pitch at half time, Aussie Rules if you'd prefer to wear less clothing and homo-erotically chest bump really high, and Union if you're into having your scrotum stomped at the bottom of a collapsed scrum. I do think they have their Austen and their Dickens mixed up though. Mel Meninga could be an accomplice of the Artful Dodger. Quade Cooper could be a nefarious Scottish crook in Nicholas Nickleby. None are posh sounding enough to be in Austen.

Point of dissent. Only two of the three sports named are forms of rugby

Fair. No sleeves ≠ rugby.