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.
Baines currently the 3rd highest pointed player, that’s crazy. Sanchez and Aguero both top.
yeah i’ve gotta admit thats very good for a defender
Morning all,
hope the GW was a good one for everyone.
Happy with my 70 pts after 2 weeks of captains blanking finally got one right with Aguero.
Thanks TJ and Josh, another enjoyable read and to Peaky for putting it all together.
Thanks to both Josh & TJ for an entertaining read.
Josh, I’d never heard of Aex Morgan so I’ve just googled her! Thank you
Hi guys,
Hope you all had a good weekend. Please could you help me out and give me some ideas on how I could possibly fit Aguero into this team without sacrificing Costa?
What’s my best option you think?
Cheers,
Mega – If you really want Aguero and I can completely understand why you would, you’ll probably need to downgrade one of Cesc, ADM or Sanchez and then use the cash to bring Kun in for Pelle.
Well, with Fabregas out for 3 weeks I (along with many others i assume) am torn for what to do . However I have narrowed it down to a few options, i think.
First Question: If I do decide to transfer Fabregas out, I can either wait until after the International Break and risk Fabregas dropping even more OR make the transfer now and avoid the price drop but risk another injury popping up. Thoughts on that?
Anyway, moving on, these are my options.
1) Transfer Fabregas out for someone else for under 9.8k
2) Hold off on the Fabregas move and instead take Ulloa out for Sakho as previously planned.
3) Hold off on every transfer and save the two for next week
TomW13 – I’ve not seen any confirmation that Fabregas is out, have i missed something? SSn and FPL aren’t showing anything about it.
Not sure but i am going on what Jose has to say
http://weaintgotnohistory.sbnation.com/2014/11/9/7181505/chelsea-fc-injury-news-cesc-fabregas-thigh-spain-national-team
Okay, if he’s only set to miss the one game then i’m going to keep him. I would go for 2) there mate. Ulloa has to go.
cheers mate. That’s what i was thinking
Sakho or Austin?
Sakho over Austin all day long. better striker, playing in a better team and same price. no brainer!
Should i do that now?? i have exactly 5.9k and thats what sakho is. worried he’ll go up
tomw13 – yes I would do that now then or just keep an eye on his price.
ok thanks buddy. big help mate. cheers
TomW, I’ve gone for Austin rather than Sakho. Despite being only 25 he’s already scored more than 100 career goals (twice as many as Sakho, who’s 24) and won’t have to play in the African nations cup.
Anyone RMT Had A Another Crap GW Only 57 PTS !
Forster
Wilson,Duff,Baines
Hazard,Downing,Mane,Di Maria
Aguero,Pelle,Sakho
Bench : Schmeichel,Boyd,Taylor,Wisdom
Would you guys transfer out Pelle for Costa – 1 FT
Jeet – Pelle -> Costa is the move i would make.
Nope. The toughest defence he’s up against in the next few weeks is Man U, and there are sound reasons why you haven’t got any Man U defenders