The fantasy industry is not only growing, there is some serious quality happening in some new shows.
I have already spruiked for the Dream Team Ruined My Life podcast in this blog, with the inimitable footylover18 and Cosmo providing weekly analysis and comedy in equal measure, but I want to make special mention of this week’s bonus show with skankdanker, a fantasy coach who not many of you know about but you all should listen to. If I heard fl18 correctly, skankdanker has finished in the top 200 or so in Dream Team for the last five years running, a feat that I suspect has not been achieved by anyone else. He is also a past winner of the Finals Dream Team competition, the year that they offered a car as the main prize. His 2009 DT squad Chook Raffle is lurking in 40th with over $300,000 sitting in the kitty. (Note the stacked backline!) This is a man to be respected. Listen to this podcast and learn from a master. Warning: the first 8:40 contains no skankdanker but does have some very funny, but very naughty-word-filled abuse towards this week’s injured players! Big W Catalogue has great football products.
Still in potty-mouthed podcast land, this time of the video variety, Adelaide-based comic Alex Williamson is making a name for himself with some profanity-laced fantasy rants on YouTube with a show called Alex’s Flowerin’ Sweet Dream Team: part 1, part 2. Unlike the FanFooty chat, there’s no swear filter on this video, but that makes it all the funnier! Alex proves that not all Dream Team fans are nerds who sit in front of their computer all day and obsess over their teams. Or does he?
Finally, there a couple of new blogs to talk about. snooperCoach is a nice-looking site written by Johnny Coping with some good little features for Super Caoch enthusiasts, though it’s a bit of a worry that he’s already dropped off without a real update in a couple of weeks… come on Johnny, your team can’t be going that bad mate! Check out Johnny’s essay on SC from last year for some heavy intellectual braindumping. Also, the new blog Tackle, Free Kick, Goal = 14 has a cracker of a name and the Dream Team content is hardcore for fans like you and me, written by flamer13. Weekly previews include all-important Drop and Pick-Up recommendations, most of which flamer13 has got on the money, apart from dropping Luke Hodge!
John
April 27, 2009 at 11:39 pm
This is quote from the tackle, free kick, goal = 14 blog. Written two weeks ago. Just thought it was funny about Hille and Harvey. LOL.
“Drop: Daniel Wells; It’s hard not to put David Hille or Brent Harvey here, but they will come good. As for Wells, the great hope for this year has flopped and appears to be the same as in the past.”
Teddler
April 28, 2009 at 12:12 am
got to respect the man skankdanker, but any team with scott lucas in it is a serious worry, seriously what was he thinking there?
Team_Lactose
April 28, 2009 at 12:23 am
yerr but look how much he has gone up. mid priced up grade player. Why not.
Bill
April 28, 2009 at 9:24 am
Snoopercoach will be back this week. Jonny has been abroad.
Chook Raffle
April 28, 2009 at 10:01 am
Thanks Teddler.
Fair call regarding Lucas and I have been asked a lot about that selection. From my perspective Scott Lucas represents value. He was priced at an average of 50 meaning he basically needed to average 52.5 to make money.
Even though he hasn’t played well he has still scored OK – if he finds form he is a very servicable DTer – compare a 66 from a crap game to someone like Judd who can play a blinder with 23 possession yet score only 70 odd. Methinks people have forgotten what a good player he is in the past 12 months.
Cheers
Skank
casha
April 28, 2009 at 10:09 am
Ahhh nice write up on the Skank there Monty and well done to the Boys from DT ruined my life for getting him on.(he is an elite in his feild :))
if you don’t learn somthing new about trading,stratergys,Money laundering out of the interveiw with Skank then you will stay a DT HACK 4 life!
Personally i think Skank should stfu 🙂
James
April 28, 2009 at 10:48 am
Dont forget footy tragic Monty! 😉
We finally got the audio working in our videos (phew!), so looking much better than earlier in the year! Also, weekly wrap is up (every monday morn!)
Thanks again for ur earlier help Monty!
-Toby (footy tragic)
Toby
April 28, 2009 at 10:49 am
Dont forget footy tragic Monty!
We finally got the audio working in our videos (phew!), so looking much better than earlier in the year! Also, weekly wrap is up (every monday morn!)
Thanks again for ur earlier help Monty!
-Toby (footy tragic)
bigbudyboy
April 28, 2009 at 1:54 pm
Hey mOnty.
I’m trying to listen to the dtrml show, but I cant download/listen/or subscribe to it (i get an error message). Just wondering if you had, or if anyone else is having this problem?
Cosmo
April 28, 2009 at 2:19 pm
Bigbudyboy,
Sorry to you and all other prospective listeners. Due to unforseen popularity of this week’s podcast, we have exceeded our bandwidth limit for the month and are in the process of upgrading our account to ensure this doesnt happen again. You should be able to access the podcast in less than an hour. Thanks, Cosmo
flamer13
April 28, 2009 at 5:48 pm
Wow! Thanks a lot monty! I only started it so I could put ads up. So if anyone visits, please click on the ads. Make me money.
And to explain my Luke Hodge decision. I’m just a very bitter Geelong supporter.
XztatiK
April 28, 2009 at 7:31 pm
Skank’s not that good, just beat him last week 😛
AFL blog - contestedfooty
April 28, 2009 at 10:16 pm
what about the brilliance down at contestedfooty?