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Calvin replies…

Hi guys – I’m writing in blue, hello there, how are we all? I’m a busy Cal these days so I thought I’d respond to a couple of questions/comments in regards to the following comments made last week in the round three edition of the greatest Captain’s article in the Fantasy world. I won’t be responding to these again as I think these explanations should cover it all. If you are still confused or upset after my explanations… I’m sorry, but I actually can’t help you anymore. All we ask is that you just stay kind and stay respectful.

Dan – Quick question in regards to your patreon…are you guys not sponsored by the afl with with your fantasy content? Or is the patreon stuff purely just an added money booster for ya? That’s not a dig either. I think I and few others are confused by the move behind a pay wall (yes I know there is still some free content provided too), as you guys have increasingly become bigger and bigger in the footy world with more afl ads on podcasts, more traders marketing all over the place, more air time, news time etc. But this patreon switch threw a massive spanner in the works, as it’s not what most people are accustomed to for people getting on patreon in the first place. Just curious that’s all. Thanks for the content anyway guys.

Hi there Dan, no dig taken at all. 100% all good. Between the three of us, we have five kids and three young families. We work three jobs as teachers, coach our kids’ soccer, basketball and football teams. We take the kids to swimming lessons, dance lessons and taekwondo as well. We have cut back our teaching hours, with the aim of creating more and better content than we ever have before and patreon allows us to do this. By reducing our workload as teachers, we are taking a massive risk… hoping that patreon can cover some of the loss.

Yes of course the AFL pay us, but their budgets are tight and they didn’t really want to embrace some of the “extra content ideas” we wanted to try and patreon allows this to happen.

We work hard. We have worked hard now for 17 years and because of that, and the fact we want to make elite Fantasy content and create more and more… the patreon exists for those legends who want to buy us a pint or a pot ($5 or $10 a month, for us to share, that’s 190mls each for a pint of beer each) to say thanks for the new stuff, along with the old stuff we have been doing for many years.

The people who have signed up to the patreon have loved the new stuff we do from the Sunday Night LIVE Shows, extra podcasts, Jaiden’s stats, new/weekly articles etc… and I have not read one negative comment about the extra work and extra content we have been provided.

Cheers mate, hope this addresses your concerns.

And now the “plug”… if that makes sense to you (and anyone else), and if you’re still reading and you’d like to get involved, click the link, join the crew and thanks!

Dez – These guys have been providing good, free content for ages. As they get a bit older, with families, time becomes a lot more valuable and it would have to be very hard to dedicate all the time and effort for little in return… There should be no questioning the motive behind charging a little bit to access premium content. They’d be making a little from the AFL, but not enough to justify all the time and energy that it would take in providing this content week in, week out.

Well said Dez. You are 100% on point (or on pint as we say in patreon land). Thanks for your understanding. Key words up there… “premium content” – that’s the goal, cheers!

Vig – Is Dunk’s score enough to use on a VC loop?

Shit… I really hope you took it! Sorry I didn’t see it sooner! Ha ha… hit me up on twitter (@CalvinDT) to get quicker responses! 

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