Who are you? Who are you? Fantasy manager profiles Part 6
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.
Next up to the examination table are Josh721 and TJ our team-sheet guru.
Josh721
THE BASICS
Members name: Josh721
Real name: Joshua Sonnier
Occupation: College student, soccer referee
Age: 21
Country of residence: USA
Best finish in The Barclays Premier League Fantasy Football game: 36,133
Current position for the season: 250,597
Planned finish (at the start of the season)for the BPL FF game in 2014/2015: 1st. Duh.
Expected finish for the BPL FF game in 2014/2015: Top 10,000
Tell us about yourself in less than 50 words: College student obsessed with soccer, fantasy soccer, basketball, movies, country music, Superman.
FAVOURITES
Food: Italian
Drink: Probably soda.
Band/Type of music: Keith Urban, Lady Antebellum, Taylor Swift. I’m a big country music fan
TV Programme: Smallville (before it ended), Parenthood, Impractical Jokers, and The Office (US version)
Films: Forrest Gump, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Rear Window
Book/Author: Ender’s Game
Joke: A horse walks into a bar and the bartender asks, “Why the long face?”
It’s bad, I know.
Country visited (and state why!): Probably Italy. I don’t remember why because I was pretty young, but it seemed pretty cool.
Country would most like to visit (and state why!): England definitely. Would love to see a soccer game there
SPORTING FAVOURITES
Sport: Soccer obviously. Followed by basketball, golf, and bowling
Sporting Team: Manchester United
Sporting Personality: Alex Morgan. I could look at her eyes all day…
Sporting moment on TV: Landon Donovan’s winning goal against Algeria at the 2010 World Cup
Sporting moment witnessed live: My local team Sacramento Republic winning the championship in their inaugural season at the end of September. Great moment.
Sporting venue you’d most like to visit: Old Trafford
Do you have any personal sporting achievements you’d like to boast about: I’ve had games over 200 in bowling on 3 separate occasions.
RANDOMS
Your celebrity look-alike is/are: I don’t even know. Apparently my smile makes me look like Tiger Woods haha.
Which 6 celebrities dead or alive would u have at a dinner party: Jesus, Alex Morgan, Taylor Swift, Ronald Reagan, Will Smith, David Beckham
Which 3 items would u take to a desert island (no humans allowed!): the Bible, a soccer ball, and The Lord of the Rings (the book)
If you won £100 000 what would u do with it: invest some, get my own car, move out, go to Europe for a few weeks, see a Man United game and go to Disneyland.
The perfect afternoon would be spent: watching a soccer game and going out to dinner with some friends
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TJ
THE BASICS
Members name: TJ
Real name: Travis
Age: 18
Country of residence: England
Best finish in The Barclays Premier League Fantasy Football game: 92929
Current position for the season: 99828
Planned finish (at the start of the season)for the BPL FF game in 2014/2015: Top 50k
Expected finish for the BPL FF game in 2014/2015: 90k
Tell us about yourself in less than 50 words: Resident line up provider. Love sport (F1, tennis, football), animals, cars and gaming. I play tennis, squash and badminton. I tweet a lot and play games like Minecraft and FIFA.
FAVOURITES
Food: Pasta!
Drink: Errr…water.
Band/Type of music: Any!
TV Programme: Top Gear and shows like The Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother, Friends etc.
SPORTING FAVOURITES
Sport: Formula One, Tennis, Football, Golf
Sporting Team: Arsenal
Sporting moment on TV: Aguerooooooooo, Brazilian F1 race 2008
Sporting moment witnessed live: Ditto!
Sporting venue you’d most like to visit: Silverstone F1 Grand Prix
Do you have any personal sporting achievements you’d like to boast about: I’m not bad at tennis, I won a tournament a few years ago
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Many thanks to both Josh and TJ 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.
Just wondering what transfers to make I got 64 points this week but only bains out of my defenders actually scored above 1 point so I’m thinking a touch up there
What about Iva to Aspi to free up some cash. or if you want a lot of cash free do Iva to a swanse defender cuz after man city their fixtures are alot easier
Hi Guys
Just wondering what trades I should do this week
Doesn’t really help that I’ve got 0.0 in the bank
Any Suggestions? I played 3-4-3 this week and I got 78 points
You might want to slowly let go one of Sonton defence, you could just save your free transfer and once you have 2 of them just get rid of clyne and bertand and get a cheaper defence and you can use that money to maybe by idk aguero? just a thought
Harry we have no games this weekend with the International break upon us, so just hold for now and see if any injuries pop up first. Sometimes your transfers are basically dictated by injuries. If everyone comes out ok, I be looking to drop Lloris first for a cheap keeper and possibly the Saints defenders after GW12. Think you have to raise that money for Kun. I would even consider dropping one of Cesc or ADM to a Downing or Chadli to get Kun in for Pelle anytime after week 12.
ADM price drop is stressing me out.
Can do either:
ADM & Moreno out/ Sanchez & Dummett in
or
Tadic & Moreno out/ Wally and Dummett in
Which would you prefer (if either? )
the first one BB
None, sit tight Bennee, alot can happen in 12 days. ADM has some good fixtures coming up, you may want to keep him. Sanchez travels back from international duty 3 days before the Arse play, will he start ?
That’s what I was thinking, just a bit tight for funds if ADM goes down and sanchez goes up. United seem to have the better fixtures, but they’re terrible at the minute!
Decisions decisions!
I remember a few years back when Ronaldo kicked into form and if you didn’t have him he became unaffordable very quickly… elle is spot on that he’s a risk this game week though
Thanks Josh & TJ! But I do want to clarify that bowling is not a sport. And T.J I feel like I could have answered about half those questions on your behalf. 😉
Also a big thanks to Peakster for gathering the managers for the profiles.
Thanks Josh and TJ! Great read chaps.
Josh, i knew there was a reason i liked you. I love a bit of bowling and country music too. Bowled for my university. Annoyingly never broken 200, despite getting 7 strikes in a row once in the first 7 frames! I’ll leave you to work out just how badly i tanked once the occaision got to me and the crowd had gathered! Ha! It was almost impossible not to break 200 but i managed it. Sooo embarrassing.
And i think Brooks and Dunn, Toby Keith, Pat Green or the legend Mr J Cash are my favs.
Thanks lads, and thanks Peaky for another good interview.
Chins – apologies mate but that bowling story has me in stitches
Yeah yeah, what-ev-er.
I aim to please mate. 😉
You got 7 strikes in a row in the first 7 frames and you didn’t break 200? I don’t know what that means and even I realize that means you suck! LOOOOSSEEEER!!!!
Tekno,
I knew you’d be there to support me through this difficult time.
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Haha glad you enjoyed it Chins. 7 strikes in a row and still couldn’t break 200?? That must have been depressing. That’s cool that you like country too. I think I’m more partial to the new stuff since that was what I was exposed to first, but I like some old country as well.
Yep, i’m getting more into the new stuff too now i live over here Josh. It was hard to keep up from the UK. Listen to 99.5 The Wolf. They play the same few songs on loop all day, but some of them are pretty catchy.
Not talking about the bowling any more.
Nice job Josh and TJ, thanks for doing the interview! Josh, I remember Donovan’s winning goal too- my younger brother and I were watching the match at my house and we went mental when he scored that- I’ll never forget it!!
And TJ, the man behind the team sheets! I look for your posts exactly one hour before kick off for every single match, ever since the FFC site. You are the MAN- thank you!! I play tennis too, been playing that and football since I was little and it’s my second favorite sport to play.
Well done gents, and thanks again to Peaky for doing these. It’s nice to learn a bit about the people we chat with on the boards all week.
Red – that game was simply amazing!! I was actually watching it in a pub with about 100 other people and we just went crazy when that goal was scored. It was great! Someone even put together a video showing different people’s reactions to that goal and it gives me goosebumps every time I watch it haha.
Thanks, I’m pleased to hear that. I’m on twitter most of the time so I get all the teamsheets as they come out. Plus my twitter client uses live streaming, so I get them by the second.