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Hola my Filthy Followers! We're back with another exciting edition of GFW. This week's show will be longer, fiery and more filthy than ever before! And there is a very good reason for that.
My guest tonight is a beauty. Little introduction is required. He's co-captain of the East Side Hawks, Captain of the reigning SOO premiers the Allies and is widely regarded as the most antagonistic poster is the SFA, ladies and gentleman strap yourselves in and please give a Filthy welcome to Itsmyshow!
Thank you for the introduction and the opportunity to be involved Chez, many of these interview shows have come and gone and I have yet to have the opportunity to partake, which is odd, I always thought I would be great value. But it seems that you are far less a flog than the others and actually want to give the fans out there what they really want to see, a head to head interview with an SFA Icon. I like that, I might start calling myself "The Icon", surely no one else has done that?
Mr.Show I would like to begin tonight by looking back on that Origin win. As captain of the Allies you certainly had your hands full. I was apart of it myself and we were certainly struggling when we first formed as team. Take us through that period and then what it meant to win SOO after doing it so tough before the series.
The beginnings of the SoO carnival was tough. When the state split was first floated by bonce, the merit behind the idea was sound and quite frankly exciting, not only would we be able to compete representing our actual state, but the opportunity was there to try to wrangle in some new contributors to the board. It quickly became rather obvious though that we would struggle to fill a "Tasmanian" side along with a "Queensland" side, despite the best efforts of Duggan and myself on the Tassie side of things and Reardo and RUL on the Qld side of things (and of course bonce).
So the decision was made to realign the two, of course in the past, the Allies had also had a NSW/ACT element, but to the credit of Gee Dub and skm, they were able to get a side up and running.
In the end, we were able to push the numbers and get a side up and running. We had a list of 21, and of that number we had 5 players that would have been considered "fillers", throughout the tournament though, we were able to push 18 players to post in the game threads, a phenomenal effort really when we were only looking at 16 that "might" post.
That was really the most important facet of the competition for me, that the guys who put their hand up to be a part of a team that many said didn't have a home, but not only do that, the guys took pride in the team they were representing, yourself and PVF in particular really stood out.
Did we make mistakes in the tournament, absolutely, one of those was the omission of yourself from the leadership group, but in the end, I think everyone that played a role for the Allies really enjoyed it.
I also learnt that I probably shouldn't send a PM out with a spoiler to the result
Yes the spoiler really was classic. As you said the win did come from guys like PVF who re established himself in the SFA. One of the other surprise packets was of course the then referred to as J3V. At time I remember thinking he was stringing his best games together. Was this influential in why you took a punt on him at the Hawks? Take us through your conversations with J3V and boncer in the lead up to that controversial decision if you wouldn’t mind.
I didn't play a massive role in the recruitment of Jobby tbh, I did send bonce a message with the simple words "Jobby, thoughts?" Not sure if this played a role in getting bonce to think about it or not, but I have a feeling that the wheels may have already been in motion. If I recall, Jobby may have already signed for the Hawks at the time of SoO, so it really didn't have an influence. I already had the thought that he could improve even further at the Hawks and that thought was behind my decision to accept Easty's offer to guide him to the Allies, he was impressive in that tournament though and it only reaffirmed my thoughts that he had plenty to offer the Hawks. His acceptance of a position in the Allies line up and his subsequent embracing of the team was outstanding.
Jobby entered the league as DonStorm and his first game was against the Roys, whom I was playing for, the Roys made us wear a red onion on our belts, which was the style at the time.. Wait, where was I?
Oh, right, Jobby.
He entered in a blaze of glory and I got stuck into him pretty heavily. Most of his stuff was completely idiotic, but there were some moments of solid work in there as well.
Over the next couple of seasons, I continued to slam Jobby pretty hard, of course, everyone else had jumped on board as well, but I saw improvement, especially last season, in his work. He gets vilified pretty badly, and in the most, he bought it upon himself. But he has come a long way in his work of recent times, especially since he has stepped up to assist loopy in posting games. His S(l)im Dusty stuff in Round 2 was superb. So whilst Jobby will take a long time, if at all, to get rid of the stigma around his posting style, he is improving, probably to the point now where he reminds me a little bit of pacey.. Just needs to bring out the lawyerz...
While I agree there may be signs of improvement, do you think a guy like J3V can be a distraction for a club like East Side? Off his reputation alone he brings the trash talk onto himself. Do you think this alienates some Hawk teammates? I mean a guy like HARPS whose best is great, appears to have stagnated, perhaps due to all the spotlight shifting off him and onto Jobby? While Jobby may drive activity, do you think it comes at a price to the rest of the team and could lead them to different clubs sometime down the track?
Some might believe that Harps has stagnated, but everyone was well aware that it was going to be far tougher for Harps this season due to other commitments. The club is filled with long term SFA players who know how to deal with controversy, so really, there has been minimal disruption.. Unlike other guys and other clubs, our guys understand the meaning of "random simulator" and "Fantasy Football Game".. So do I think it comes at a price.. No.. If there are players out there that are too precious that every single thing about this game offends them, then they are kidding themselves.
And now we see the hard edge of IMS come out. The one that he is so famous for. What do you think about your reputation as a real mongrel of the SFA? Do you pride yourself on it, or does it annoy you as you'll probably never be the premier SFA player amongst players as your just simply not likeable enough?
Not likeable enough? Surely you jest? I am much loved!! Honestly, it really doesn't phase me, it is a role that needs to be filled. Like WGS and his nice guy role, or the Roy's and their old men role. Do I deliberately target people in order to fulfill the perception, at times, sure, most of the time it's just fill though. When someone says something insanely idiotic though, I am going to call him on it. (hi Juggs). I would fully expect the same in return. I wasn't always the antagonist, but it shits me how life and death some people make this game. Not many would understand, but before this influx of new talent, the league was being considered inactive and failing, in recent times there has been a boom which is fantastic. But only a few short seasons ago, inactive was the perception. All except the Roys, who prior to that season were considered the most inactive of all. By the end of the season, the Roys had 20-22 posting in Every game thread. I would like to think I played a role in that, an a significant one. God knows I spammed the shit outta those threads. At the close of that season, I had a discussion with Mobbs about the health of the league, particularly with Freakie heading to the Roy's and decided that I would join a team that needed a boost, and here we are now , I joined the most controversial team and became the most antagonistic poster in the eyes if others. But most importantly, despite my best intentions for the comp as a whole, I am considered one of the biggest turn coats. Well, so be it. Perception is irrelevant to me, do are the opinions of the wider SFA community. It's just how I like it.
What was the question again?
Can't remember - judging by your response I think it was "tell me IMS how you single handedly saved the SFA." Let’s just move on shall we?
While you said you antagonise to feed people's perceptions, I'd challenge you in that I think it goes beyond that. My first guest Wise Guy Sam called you the East Side Bullies for the way you attack new posters in the league and I tend to agree with him. I mean when I first declared interest you told me to join Baghdad, when Eq announced I'd joined the Furies you jumped all over me and at the time I had no idea what was going on. Recently you've been very hard on Mr Zero, more so than most really. Is this really an appropriate way for a captain to handle himself? I mean if we're trying to bring in new talent shouldn't we give them some room to breathe before you come in with your bullying ways?
See this is most of the issue. Grow up. It's like a whole group of little girls join and want to be Molly coddled.
I directed you to Baghdad, you didn't join, I called you weak, but I barely jumped all over you.
Mr Zero is a whole new world.. Came in as an alias, lied about it, spent his first week stalking Jobby with copy paste responses from real posters in S14, and now runs around kissing the arse of the Demons hoping they don't cut his lying arse loose. He shoulda been banned for a year.
You have been waiting for your little mark to have a stab at me for the first thing I said to you. In game threads last season did I abuse you at all? Did I abuse WGS in game threads? People have a perception that the Hawks beat up in noobs because bonce made the act famous. I couldn't give a rats about whether you are a noob or a general flog, if you say something insanely idiotic and act like it, I will make it nice and clear to everyone what a flog you are.
It's fair enough to treat everyone the same if that's your porogative but from my perspective you seem to be first in line to take a shot at the new guys, and when they fire back you say "here we go again, a new bloke trying to ride on my coatails to try and make a name for themselves." You put them into a corner where their captain is forced to fight them out of. I don't see why a player of such stature such as yourself, gets involved and goes after new players when you say yourself that they're beneath you.
Is this an interview or an opportunity for you to express your perspective on how I post in the league?? I will say it again, your perspective is wrong. I barely mention let alone attack any new players unless they are looking for a fight, then I give then one. If I picked on you when you first arrived, I apologize. You certainly seem miffed and disenchanted.
I can assure you it's an interview show...Show. Just giving you a chance to give your take on a topic Wise Guy Sam put out there in my first episode. But on that awkward note we must leave it there. Let’s go to a commercial break, cool off and come back ready to get stuck into some other SFA topics.
My guest tonight is a beauty. Little introduction is required. He's co-captain of the East Side Hawks, Captain of the reigning SOO premiers the Allies and is widely regarded as the most antagonistic poster is the SFA, ladies and gentleman strap yourselves in and please give a Filthy welcome to Itsmyshow!
Thank you for the introduction and the opportunity to be involved Chez, many of these interview shows have come and gone and I have yet to have the opportunity to partake, which is odd, I always thought I would be great value. But it seems that you are far less a flog than the others and actually want to give the fans out there what they really want to see, a head to head interview with an SFA Icon. I like that, I might start calling myself "The Icon", surely no one else has done that?
Mr.Show I would like to begin tonight by looking back on that Origin win. As captain of the Allies you certainly had your hands full. I was apart of it myself and we were certainly struggling when we first formed as team. Take us through that period and then what it meant to win SOO after doing it so tough before the series.
The beginnings of the SoO carnival was tough. When the state split was first floated by bonce, the merit behind the idea was sound and quite frankly exciting, not only would we be able to compete representing our actual state, but the opportunity was there to try to wrangle in some new contributors to the board. It quickly became rather obvious though that we would struggle to fill a "Tasmanian" side along with a "Queensland" side, despite the best efforts of Duggan and myself on the Tassie side of things and Reardo and RUL on the Qld side of things (and of course bonce).
So the decision was made to realign the two, of course in the past, the Allies had also had a NSW/ACT element, but to the credit of Gee Dub and skm, they were able to get a side up and running.
In the end, we were able to push the numbers and get a side up and running. We had a list of 21, and of that number we had 5 players that would have been considered "fillers", throughout the tournament though, we were able to push 18 players to post in the game threads, a phenomenal effort really when we were only looking at 16 that "might" post.
That was really the most important facet of the competition for me, that the guys who put their hand up to be a part of a team that many said didn't have a home, but not only do that, the guys took pride in the team they were representing, yourself and PVF in particular really stood out.
Did we make mistakes in the tournament, absolutely, one of those was the omission of yourself from the leadership group, but in the end, I think everyone that played a role for the Allies really enjoyed it.
I also learnt that I probably shouldn't send a PM out with a spoiler to the result
Yes the spoiler really was classic. As you said the win did come from guys like PVF who re established himself in the SFA. One of the other surprise packets was of course the then referred to as J3V. At time I remember thinking he was stringing his best games together. Was this influential in why you took a punt on him at the Hawks? Take us through your conversations with J3V and boncer in the lead up to that controversial decision if you wouldn’t mind.
I didn't play a massive role in the recruitment of Jobby tbh, I did send bonce a message with the simple words "Jobby, thoughts?" Not sure if this played a role in getting bonce to think about it or not, but I have a feeling that the wheels may have already been in motion. If I recall, Jobby may have already signed for the Hawks at the time of SoO, so it really didn't have an influence. I already had the thought that he could improve even further at the Hawks and that thought was behind my decision to accept Easty's offer to guide him to the Allies, he was impressive in that tournament though and it only reaffirmed my thoughts that he had plenty to offer the Hawks. His acceptance of a position in the Allies line up and his subsequent embracing of the team was outstanding.
Jobby entered the league as DonStorm and his first game was against the Roys, whom I was playing for, the Roys made us wear a red onion on our belts, which was the style at the time.. Wait, where was I?
Oh, right, Jobby.
He entered in a blaze of glory and I got stuck into him pretty heavily. Most of his stuff was completely idiotic, but there were some moments of solid work in there as well.
Over the next couple of seasons, I continued to slam Jobby pretty hard, of course, everyone else had jumped on board as well, but I saw improvement, especially last season, in his work. He gets vilified pretty badly, and in the most, he bought it upon himself. But he has come a long way in his work of recent times, especially since he has stepped up to assist loopy in posting games. His S(l)im Dusty stuff in Round 2 was superb. So whilst Jobby will take a long time, if at all, to get rid of the stigma around his posting style, he is improving, probably to the point now where he reminds me a little bit of pacey.. Just needs to bring out the lawyerz...
While I agree there may be signs of improvement, do you think a guy like J3V can be a distraction for a club like East Side? Off his reputation alone he brings the trash talk onto himself. Do you think this alienates some Hawk teammates? I mean a guy like HARPS whose best is great, appears to have stagnated, perhaps due to all the spotlight shifting off him and onto Jobby? While Jobby may drive activity, do you think it comes at a price to the rest of the team and could lead them to different clubs sometime down the track?
Some might believe that Harps has stagnated, but everyone was well aware that it was going to be far tougher for Harps this season due to other commitments. The club is filled with long term SFA players who know how to deal with controversy, so really, there has been minimal disruption.. Unlike other guys and other clubs, our guys understand the meaning of "random simulator" and "Fantasy Football Game".. So do I think it comes at a price.. No.. If there are players out there that are too precious that every single thing about this game offends them, then they are kidding themselves.
And now we see the hard edge of IMS come out. The one that he is so famous for. What do you think about your reputation as a real mongrel of the SFA? Do you pride yourself on it, or does it annoy you as you'll probably never be the premier SFA player amongst players as your just simply not likeable enough?
Not likeable enough? Surely you jest? I am much loved!! Honestly, it really doesn't phase me, it is a role that needs to be filled. Like WGS and his nice guy role, or the Roy's and their old men role. Do I deliberately target people in order to fulfill the perception, at times, sure, most of the time it's just fill though. When someone says something insanely idiotic though, I am going to call him on it. (hi Juggs). I would fully expect the same in return. I wasn't always the antagonist, but it shits me how life and death some people make this game. Not many would understand, but before this influx of new talent, the league was being considered inactive and failing, in recent times there has been a boom which is fantastic. But only a few short seasons ago, inactive was the perception. All except the Roys, who prior to that season were considered the most inactive of all. By the end of the season, the Roys had 20-22 posting in Every game thread. I would like to think I played a role in that, an a significant one. God knows I spammed the shit outta those threads. At the close of that season, I had a discussion with Mobbs about the health of the league, particularly with Freakie heading to the Roy's and decided that I would join a team that needed a boost, and here we are now , I joined the most controversial team and became the most antagonistic poster in the eyes if others. But most importantly, despite my best intentions for the comp as a whole, I am considered one of the biggest turn coats. Well, so be it. Perception is irrelevant to me, do are the opinions of the wider SFA community. It's just how I like it.
What was the question again?
Can't remember - judging by your response I think it was "tell me IMS how you single handedly saved the SFA." Let’s just move on shall we?
While you said you antagonise to feed people's perceptions, I'd challenge you in that I think it goes beyond that. My first guest Wise Guy Sam called you the East Side Bullies for the way you attack new posters in the league and I tend to agree with him. I mean when I first declared interest you told me to join Baghdad, when Eq announced I'd joined the Furies you jumped all over me and at the time I had no idea what was going on. Recently you've been very hard on Mr Zero, more so than most really. Is this really an appropriate way for a captain to handle himself? I mean if we're trying to bring in new talent shouldn't we give them some room to breathe before you come in with your bullying ways?
See this is most of the issue. Grow up. It's like a whole group of little girls join and want to be Molly coddled.
I directed you to Baghdad, you didn't join, I called you weak, but I barely jumped all over you.
Mr Zero is a whole new world.. Came in as an alias, lied about it, spent his first week stalking Jobby with copy paste responses from real posters in S14, and now runs around kissing the arse of the Demons hoping they don't cut his lying arse loose. He shoulda been banned for a year.
You have been waiting for your little mark to have a stab at me for the first thing I said to you. In game threads last season did I abuse you at all? Did I abuse WGS in game threads? People have a perception that the Hawks beat up in noobs because bonce made the act famous. I couldn't give a rats about whether you are a noob or a general flog, if you say something insanely idiotic and act like it, I will make it nice and clear to everyone what a flog you are.
It's fair enough to treat everyone the same if that's your porogative but from my perspective you seem to be first in line to take a shot at the new guys, and when they fire back you say "here we go again, a new bloke trying to ride on my coatails to try and make a name for themselves." You put them into a corner where their captain is forced to fight them out of. I don't see why a player of such stature such as yourself, gets involved and goes after new players when you say yourself that they're beneath you.
Is this an interview or an opportunity for you to express your perspective on how I post in the league?? I will say it again, your perspective is wrong. I barely mention let alone attack any new players unless they are looking for a fight, then I give then one. If I picked on you when you first arrived, I apologize. You certainly seem miffed and disenchanted.
I can assure you it's an interview show...Show. Just giving you a chance to give your take on a topic Wise Guy Sam put out there in my first episode. But on that awkward note we must leave it there. Let’s go to a commercial break, cool off and come back ready to get stuck into some other SFA topics.
