Who are you? Who are you? Fantasy manager profiles Part 5
Here at FF247 towers we’ve often wondered what driving forces hide behind a comment or a rate my team reply, do we really know the mindset and the persona of the people we are conversing with?! To find the answers to these questions we have lured some regulars from out of their caves and got them to endure a simple Q&A session.
Hopefully this will help us to uncover whether each member can be viewed as a ‘fellow sports enthusiast’, ‘colleague’, ‘fantasy friend’, ‘internet troll’ or indeed ‘sociopath’! Let’s take a look inside the minds of our latest two ‘victims’ then and see whether, hiding behind the cute monkey gravatars, lurks a sadistic, megalomaniacal, psychotic keyboard warrior. Or just a normal guy or gal who likes to play fantasy football…
We will add a disclaimer here – we have resolved to not edit what is sent in at all. What you see is what you (we) get. And no Bench, we aren’t just saying that because it’s your turn 😉
Next up to the examination table are Bench and Monty(Caz Daz).
THE BASICS
Members name:……Monty(CAZ DAZ)
Real name:……Sudipto Das (That’s a contrast, isn’t it. Well the previous one is my nick name)
Occupation:…….Jobless at the very moment. Striving hard to get into one. Well if you guys have any, I’ll do that but remember no field job for me.
Age:………..21
Country of residence:……India
Best finish in The Barclays Premier League Fantasy Football game:……..92,344(starting from GW2 in that game and was my first season)
Current position for the season……….Absolutely horrific start. Currently it’s on 575,097.
Planned finish (at the start of the season)for the BPL FF game in 2014/2015:….. Get 1st and get that free ticket to the Emirates.
Expected finish for the BPL FF game in 2014/2015:……Improve and better my performance to get into the top 10k which is seeming more than unlikely.
Tell us about yourself in less than 50 words:……A student who picked up his first job after dropping out from school and then dropped out from that job again due to the lack of patience. A big Arsenal fan and a greater Santi Cazorla fan. Love a good banter and love FPL, it has now been a part and parcel of my life.
FAVOURITES
Food:…..Indian food naturally and a special mention to Tandoor chicken. French is also not too bad.
Drink:…..Beer,champagne
Band/Type of music:…..Bryan Adams, Def leppard, John Denver (solo country music)….not into hard rock. Alternative rock is OK. Alterbridge, Sylvan etc etc.
TV Programme:……Game of Thrones as simple as that.
Films:……The Shawshank Redemption,well there’s a thousand movies that I like but can’t name them all….can we?
Book/Author:……Michael Crichton, Matthew Reilly, Adam Nevill, Stephen King…the list goes on and on.
Joke………….It was with a computer password. I put up “mypenis” in anger because it was getting on my nerves with all those shite character insertion and all. And on the screen it says “not long enough”.
Country visited (and state why!):……Egypt (To visit my uncle over there and anyway it became a holiday destination for us).
Country would most like to visit (and state why!)………England (London).. Well to catch up with some of my mates of the FF247 community over a can of beer and then visit Emirates. Well it would happen soon I guess.
SPORTING FAVOURITES
Sport:……Football
Sporting Team:…….Arsenal
Sporting Personality:…….Dennis Bergkamp
Sporting moment on TV:……Arsenal lifting the FA cup after such a long time. The Rambo goal and celebration in that game still gives me goosebumps.
Sporting moment witnessed live:…….Well cricket it is. It’s the final of the ICC WC 2011 and India came out on top.
Sporting venue you’d most like to visit:…….Emirates
Do you have any personal sporting achievements you’d like to boast about…………Sadly it’s also in cricket. A couple of centuries !! Football !! I missed some sitters and was thrown out of the team in my teens.
RANDOMS
Your celebrity look-alike is/are…. Well I can’t say a Brad Pitt lookalike. But maybe James Franco (not with that body of course).
Which 6 celebrities dead or alive would you have at a dinner party:…… Morgan Freeman, Robin Williams, Richard Attenborough, Bill Gates, Dennis Bergkamp, Jim Carey..
Which 3 items would u take to a desert island (no humans allowed!):…….Food for sure and water, and some flares. Well first and foremost I won’t go there.
If you won £100 000 what would u do with it:………Make a world tour.
The perfect afternoon would be spent:……..With some of my mates with some booze and food of course.
My Epitaph would read:…….I am dead and I approve this message. Now let me ROT in peace.
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THE BASICS
Members name:…… Bench
Real name:…… Sir Bench or Chris to friends
Occupation:……. part-time roofer, full time beer tester
Age:……….. the big 40
Country of residence:…… England
Best finish in The Barclays Premier League Fantasy Football game:…….. 20k
Current position for the season………. 60k
Planned finish (at the start of the season)for the BPL FF game in 2014/2015:…… dont concern myself with overall position, i dont kid myself and think i am that lucky enough to win it, i much prefer the H2H Leagues especially the Banterbury Leagues ( shameless Plug )
Expected finish for the BPL FF game in 2014/2015:…… Happy with top 100k, be more made up if i could win a Banterbury competition
Tell us about yourself in less than 50 words:…… umm just umm !!!
FAVOURITES
Food:….. has to be salad haha, no only joking, Egg & Chips
Drink:….. yes often !!
Band/Type of music:….. Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, or anything 2tone/SKA
TV Programme:…… soccer AM, Peaky Blinders
Films:…… The others, Devils Advocate or anything with Al Pacino or Robert Di Nero in
Book/Author:…… The Power Of Now/ Eckhart Tolle
Joke…………. what is ET short for ? because he has short legs Ha
Country visited (and state why!):…… Spain for the 3 S Sun/Sea & San Miguel
Country would most like to visit (and state why!)……… North Korea/ for a night on the town with Kim Jong-un
SPORTING FAVOURITES
Sport:…… Beer Pong haha i don’t even no wot that is but it sound good,
Sporting Team:……. Liverpool
Sporting Personality:……. believe it or not David Beckham, the way he handled people burning his shirt and so on after being sent off in ’98, and then turned it all round to become a world mega star, and for putting up with that missis of his, that deserves credit on it own
Sporting moment on TV:…… 2005 European Cup Final
Do you have any personal sporting achievements you’d like to boast about………… As a 14 year old had schoolboy trials for Villa, Swansea, Bristol City & Oxford Utd, playing on the Vetch Field ( Swansea’s old ground) was special
RANDOMS
Your celebrity look-alike is/are……………. bonehead ( oasis )
Which 6 celebrities dead or alive would u have at a dinner party:…… Jesus, Henry VII, Elvis, Churchill, Bill Shankley, Wendy James ( for you young’uns google her, fit mint or wotever the word is these days for you know you would !!!)
Which 3 items would u take to a desert island (no humans allowed!):……. The Bible, a never-ending beer can, and factor 25
If you won £100 000 what would u do with it:……… Send my Daughter to the ladies Collage
The perfect afternoon would be spent:…….. with my Daughter playing football
My Epitaph would read:……. “I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.”
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Many thanks to both Monty and Bench for being so candid! We hope you know your two fellow ‘fantasy friends’ a little better now.
If you feel that you would like to expose your inner self then please feel free to mail us at contact@fantasyfootball247.co.uk and we shall have peakydave interrogate you! If you have already submitted one, which many have, we are publishing them in the order received and hopefully yours will be along soon.
Morning all, great read Monty + Bench, thanks Pokey for putting it together once again. Quite surprised how many people like The Stone Roses, and Bench, thanks for the memories, Wendy James and Transvision Vamp, aaahhh !
Is the general consensus that Costa is a must for next Gw?
If fit, yes.
There lies the problem doesn’t it.
Well i’ve kept him in for 2 weeks now with this game in mind, i can only hope he is fit.
You’re gonna be so disappoinyed when he plays the full 90 but doesn’t score.
Disappointed*
Bye bye FMLS. Thanks for all the help throughout the season folks, it’s much appreciated :thumbup:
NIN
I had a very disappointing final week and my first below average score in about three months!
Left on a bit of a downer but I’l be back next year.
Same here, disappointing end to the season. I was in 144th as recently as gwk 28 but slipped to 287th as end rank. Still, decent for a first effort i suppose. I’m buzzing for next season already
Right i’m off to bring the pooch for a walk. Catch you later mate.
NIN
That is a great rank.
Congratulations, you’ve set a high standard for yourself for next season.
Unfortunately what with going on holiday and then moving house I never had chance to do the MLS from about round 21 onwards.
Hopefully be back on it next season with an actual broadband connection!
I finished 3711 overall, don’t think i’ll play next year, its absolute crap, the amount of times i had players not playing and no auto subs was ridiculous, they need to change the rules. Idiotic americans.
nice one lads.. I finished 348 overall so really pleased with it… But, you know… It just doesn’t quite feel the same..
Getting a whopping score and being top 100 (as I was for a time) feels… kinda….. empty… As in comparison to FPL. Know what I mean ?? Or not
Sorry, 356.. But who’s splitting hairs hey
Good stuff lads, the FF247 league was pretty damn good considering how many first time players there were. Kudos to all :thumbup:
Now, back to business, FPL, Mangala needs to go but who to replace him with? I’m thinking Coleman, squad is linked. Ta.
Demsie
Great ranking well done.
And elle I agree. It is a system i don’t like at all. Should be autosub definitely. Like I’m up at 3 or 4 in the morning checking line ups in America!
Thinking of doubling up with Baines?
What about Cahill? Chelsea’s fixtures are pretty appealing
Shadow – Cahill isn’t really justifying the price tag so far. Coleman is three points ahead of him having played four less games.
Yeah Shadow, I’ve had Ivanovic for a good few GWs now and he’s done nothing. I’m reluctant to ship as I just know as soon as I do he will start raking it in again, but I am strongly considering a Baines + Coleman combo instead.
Fair point, just think there’s plenty of clean sheet opportunities coming.
Saying that I have Terry and probably going to get rid of him for Baines this week even though they have QPR at home!
F**k it. I’m doing it now. Mangala -> Coleman. I’ll only end up changing my mind again and doing a less profitable transfer. Lets go Seamus 😉 Little dixie.
After that great debut Mangala hasn’t really looked up to much has he, unlucky NIN. And not sure if I’m having a brain fart but that is how you spell debut right?? It’s got a red squiggly line underneath it for some reason..
Weird, that’s definitely the right spelling. Yeah Mangala/City just aren’t doing it defensively. Even big Vinny has been a bit ropey so far. I’m disgusted Coleman got injured a few weeks ago, would have caught the double mega haul vs Villa. Drat.
Morning/afternoon all of you! Hope there were good (or at least above average!) scores all around. I ended on 43, with Coloccini coming off the bench tonight. Snuck up a few places I think.
My plan remains to overhaul my defence (and wish I’d gone Chambers instead of Wisdom this week!). Chambers and Hutton are on my radar for Taylor and Wilson respectively. Taylor will drop I think when Swansea’s fixtures hit, and at 4.6 now he’s a straight swap for Chambers. Colo might do ok if Newcastle’s slow resurgence continues….haha.
Thing is, I’m tempted by Sterling > Alexis this weekend (kneejerk, I know, but Sterling isn’t getting much joy amongst his underwhelming teammates). But maybe I should hold off due to ‘pool playing Newcastle? Also, might be worth holding onto a transfer in case Siggy or Costa doesn’t make it.
Last thing: I am vaguely considering the WC in order to solidify my place high up the rankings. I doubt it’s necessary but I’m just a little frustrated by a few of my team, and there will be others soon whose fixtures deteriorate: Forster will have to go, for example; also Pelle might have a better option coming in. Thoughts on this?
And while my team is linked, here’s next week’s lineup as it stands. Thanks all!
Team looks good. Wait with transfers if you can.
WC that team? You’re crazy. Might need it much more later in the season. Also, with a bit of luck we get a few DGW’s in march/april, you can setup teams and receive double points. That’s what I’m planning anyway. Unless I suddenly have 6 players injured.
Thanks Raz. You feeling better today mate?
Mostly I just am annoyed that I might be spending transfers for defenders over a few weeks, not seeing the benefits and then missing out on exciting developments higher up the pitch. But I could probably go with my current front 7 for at least 2-3 more matches (injuries, rests pending of course) and take the time to consider how best to fix the defence. It’s not like many teams are keeping CS consistently either. There’s been a surprising lack of them this season– I feel like the beginning of last season it was par for the course.
Think last season started with a lot of cleansheets but ended with with a very few. Main reason why I’m keeping Baines and I’ll try to add more players like Chambers/Clyne/Wisdom later (atm I’m stuck with Hutton, Dummett, Moore). Put my focus on 1 goalie, 2 class defenders, and 7 class offensive players. It has worked out though Falcao not playing sort of made my butt itch. I read Falcao is the best one with the head at United, all the players say so, just think would could’ve been if it was him instead of … at United? I think a fit Falcao is going to be awesome.
Yeah, doing better. My shite isn’t as liquid as it was yesterday. Penicillin obviously still in my blood though, doc said if it takes a turn for the worse, I’d have to drop by.
Good to hear (thanks for the detailed response….!)
Falcao is a great player- when he clicks you’ll be rolling in the points.
Yeah, the plan was having Falcao/Kun/Drogba. :p
Ummm I mean Falcao/Kun/Costa …. LOL… once Costa is fit!!!!!!!!!!!!! :rant:
Afternoon all, can i have some help with my team? No idea what transfers to do this week! I was planning to play my WC but that seems really unnecessary now. Thinking of selling Siggy, he has 3 hard fixtures, and has got 3 assists in the last six games (with opposition including Newcastle, as someone said yesterdday), and maybe Shawcross. Thoughts?
Siggy has a great relationship with Bony now and his stats don’t really match how well he’s played. I don’t know if it’s possible to find *chances created* anywhere online? Whoscored.com maybe? I would hesitate to drop him unless he’s confirmed out as injured for a few weeks.
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If Siggy is fit I will def. not be selling him. He’s key in everything Swansea does. Isn’t he assisting he’s setting up the goal. Scored 2 wondergoals versus Holland and he can do the same in the EPL. I’m just watching how serious his injury is. Everybody is jumping on the Barkley bandwagon and he didn’t even start the last game. I was also thinking Chadli but he hasn’t done anything the last 3 games, well 1 assist. I only let go of topnotch players if I really have to. And remember, it will be much harder to buy him back. My Costa buy back plan paid off but doubt Siggy will drop 0.4m anytime soon. Oooh yeah, Siggy is playing against big opposition but not the best defenses in the league. 😉
Thanks guys! I’ll be keeping Siggy then! Should I do anything about Shawcross?
Hi Veer, no need for you to be making so many changes. Stick with Shawcross for now. The players to think about switching are your goalkeepers. Mannone is in danger of losing his starting place, so be on the lookout for a replacement.
Does anyone know when Sakho will have his x-ray?