Shiva Blast

4 rounds out from finals. Knockout is down to a final 16. The walls of the season are closing in but we’re putting it all to the side as we celebrate the 2026 Shiva Song Contest Grand Final. Who will take out this year’s Mark Santillo Trophy of Musical Excellence? You decide. Vote here: https://forms.gle/rSgSMBRAwfm9fPUB9 If you're entertained by the amazing efforts of our contributors, consider s...

5 rounds of byes done. But there’s no respite now, it’s a 5 game sprint until finals. 5 rounds left to give yourself the best chance at survival, or at a title. Plus, the Knockouts are back with 32 coaches vying for the title of champion. It’s the home stretch of the season on the SHIVA BLAST! Song Contest Heat 1 Voting: https://forms.gle/mcVTX41aHr2QeufL9 Song Contest Heat 2 Voting: https://forms...

The Shiva Song Contest is here for 2026 and 23 entries are vying for your votes and the Mark Santillo Trophy of Musical Excellence. Heat 3 features the talents of Coaches James, Nathan, Justin, The Commish, MattyMacca, Ben, Jarrod and Matthew. Voting link is below to eventually send 2 more coaches through to the final (on top of a golden buzzer which Turk has put straight through!) Vote here: http...

The Shiva Song Contest is here for 2026 and 23 entries are vying for your votes and the Mark Santillo Trophy of Musical Excellence. Heat 2 features the talents of Coaches Jared, BennyMacca, Tom, Max, Michael, Leigh (LFG) and Dylan. Voting link is below to eventually send 2 more coaches through to the final (on top of a golden buzzer which the Commish has put straight through!) Vote here: https://f...

The Shiva Song Contest is here for 2026 and 23 entries are vying for your votes and the Mark Santillo Trophy of Musical Excellence. Heat 1 features the talents of Coaches Ross, Aaron, Matthew, Jamie, Callum, Turk, Brett and Odin. Voting link is below to eventually send 2 more coaches through to the final (on top of a golden buzzer which Benny has put straight through!) Vote here: https://forms.gle...

With the song contest pushed back to next week, this week is the podcast that wasn’t meant to be, born out of the ashes of minimal podcast host coordination. Grab a nice cuppa, settle in for an unexpected SHIVA BLAST! Get your song contest entries in for next week!  Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/thedtshiva Twitter: @dtshiva_ Instagram: @thedtshiva Join the Shiva discord here:  https:/...

Apologies in advance. The Commissioner's recollection of his unlikely win is possibly the least offensive part of this week's Shiva Blast. Seags is back, Benny is here, Bacon brings the Stats and there's plenty of contributions via the Open Line. Tea Cups, Water Bottles, White Russians, Grammar Police and more.  Get your song contest entries in for next week!  Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/g...

With the 2026 Shiva Song Contest submission deadline approaching on Tuesday June 16, we've scoured the records of the Shiva Blast and are resurrecting old song contests that no longer appear on the feed. If you want historical submissions to inspire you, here they are!  Thank you to all of our coaches who have been part of the contest throughout its history.

With the 2026 Shiva Song Contest submission deadline approaching on Tuesday June 16, we've scoured the records of the Shiva Blast and are resurrecting old song contests that no longer appear on the feed. If you want historical submissions to inspire you, here they are!  Thank you to all of our coaches who have been part of the contest throughout its history.

With the 2026 Shiva Song Contest submission deadline approaching on Tuesday June 16, we've scoured the records of the Shiva Blast and are resurrecting old song contests that no longer appear on the feed. If you want historical submissions to inspire you, here they are!  Thank you to all of our coaches who have been part of the contest throughout its history.

With the 2026 Shiva Song Contest submission deadline approaching on Tuesday June 16, we've scoured the records of the Shiva Blast and are resurrecting old song contests that no longer appear on the feed. If you want historical submissions to inspire you, here they are!  Thank you to all of our coaches who have been part of the contest throughout its history.

The cracks are showing! One more injury, on top of all the others. One low score from your backed in player. Hugh McCluggage. Any one of these things could be the straw that broke the camels back.  But lets look at the positives. This is the best of the bye rounds for teams missing. We’re one round closer to the end of the year. And the podcast is back! Turn that frown upside down, its the SHIVA B...

10 rounds down and the byes are looming. Do you yearn for the respite of reduced numbers week by week or fear losing more players on top of your already broken squad? There’s hurdles looming but for now we prepare ourselves for one more full blooded battle in Round 11. This is the SHIVA BLAST! Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/thedtshiva Twitter: @dtshiva_ Instagram: @thedtshiva Join the...

As we enter the mid-season stretch of Shiva, our worst enemy isn’t our league mates or the coach filling our inbox with shit trade offers, it’s complacency. Forgetting to set the lineup, not scanning the waivers or leaving the big scoring loop option rotting on the bench. In the immortal words of Shannon Noll that I like to imagine is about Shiva and not his flaccid penis: I know how hard it can g...

BennyMacca has fled overseas and subsequently away from the podcast for a month. In past what could be a cause for celebration is now precarious if the last time the Blast was without him is any guide. In a week where some of the season’s best scorers stumbled, is there a new Shiva order? Let’s find out on the latest SHIVA BLAST! Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/thedtshiva Twitter: @dtsh...

Safe to say we didn't cove ourselves in glory last week. But the Commish, Seags and Benny are back. So is the Bonglord. So is Bacon. So are the brave Open Line contributors.  It's shorter (slightly) It's better (probably) It's the SHIVA BLAST! Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/thedtshiva Twitter: @dtshiva_ Instagram: @thedtshiva Join the Shiva discord here:  https://discord.gg/4h9EPdaYbu...

There's a lot to cover in this episode of the Shiva Blast. A caption wouldn't suffice. So here's a challenge for you, comment below - what was the moment that you felt that the Commish and Seags lost patience with the episode. Time stamp away Shivarites!  Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/thedtshiva Twitter: @dtshiva_ Instagram: @thedtshiva Join the Shiva discord here:  https://discord.gg...

We gathered, we saw and results were mixed after only the second full round of football for the season. It’s a little more painful when you can’t drop the biggest spud score from your tally at the end of the week! Each league is starting to get a good idea of the front runners now, as well as those who have a lot of climbing to do - and there’s a few that fall into the second group on this week’s...

*Warning - this episode pushes the boundaries more than most* Like a crucial umpiring decision in a tight Crows loss, sometimes it can feel like it’s hard to get things right in Shiva. The wrong choice on draft day, the wrong player left on the bench, a bad loophole, a poor choice of 10-year long co-host. On the brighter side though, there’s always next week, the byes are done and here’s another e...

Things that are shit: Carlton, Essendon, Port Adelaide, bye rounds, early season bye rounds, early season bye rounds when a shit ton of players are out, when Seags says he’s not free for the recording. Things that are ok: A round where we didn’t get a whole bunch of high end injuries, A busy Open Line and the latest episode SHIVA BLAST!  Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/thedtshiva Twitte...

Only 2 weeks into the season and the walls are already closing in on some coaches as a mixture of reduced numbers thanks to byes and injuries to quality players are hurting the bottom line. And if you can’t turn to fantasy football for relief in tough times - where can you turn?! Not easily accessible online pornography. Not a quiet Saturday drive. Perhaps just the SHIVA BLAST! Facebook:  https://...

Apologies for the delay Coaches! We are underway and we’re already learning that Shiva will be a tricky beast to tame this year. One first-round draft pick gone for 4 months. Plenty of others underperforming in a quickly changing fantasy landscape. With reduced numbers this week for a stupid Round 2 set of byes, let’s find out what awaits our coaches on this week’s SHIVA BLAST! Facebook:  https://...

The draft is done, for most of us. As we hit record on this episode, 6 Champions Leagues are back at the draft table - ready to use their experience to move up the 2027 ladder. For the rest of us, we’re left to celebrate or lament everything that went down on Sunday. We’ll sift through the debris and look towards the start of the season on the last pre-season SHIVA BLAST! Facebook:  https://www.fa...

Coming fresh off a 45-minute long Facebook live draft draw, the final piece has been put in place for the 2026 Shiva season and now we lock in on this Sunday’s draft. Spreadsheets, tier lists and devices at the ready, this is the SHIVA BLAST! Registrations for new players still open at dtshiva.com.au Marcelo's draft draw website: https://sprinna-app.vercel.app/ Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/...

The smell of football is in the air and it is almost time for unabashed use of Keeper Fantasy on the company dime to begin. The Shiva Draft is just over 2 weeks away and there’s plenty to sort out in the interim - best we sink out teeth into another episode of the SHIVA BLAST! Register to play at dtshiva.com.au Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thedtshiva Twitter: @dtshiva_ Instagram: @the...