Possible Clues:

• Ungracefully tall and thin
• Lanky
• (Of limbs) awkwardly long and thin
• Clumsily tall
• Awkward group overcoming extremes of lunacy
• Tall, thin, awkward
• Tall and awkward in movement
• Loosely put together band lately disheartened
• Awkward group of criminals likely to lose heart
• Scrawny mob put on plays -- nothing odd about that