Fantasy Aviva Premiership - Season 1

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Bath Rugby	Bathite
Exeter Chiefs	Luke
Gloucester	Prop
Harlequins	Driver
Leicester Tigers	Pooly
London Irish	Pull
London Wasps	Nick
Newcastle Falcons	Flux
Northampton Saints	Johnny
Sale Sharks	Ollie
Saracens	Chequred
Worcester Warriors	ITFL

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FOREIGN U21 bid - 0900 Sunday 27/05

• Born on/after 02/09/91
• U21 by 01/09/2012
• Non Int only
• 3m starting bid

FULL FOREIGNS (Summer transfers)

1st bid - 0900 Monday 04 June

2nd bid - 0900 Monday 02 July

Summer foreigns close - 31 August


WAITING LIST:
1. HERSH

Anybody interested in;
Any one of my three hookers
Mercey
Kohn, Swinson, Hudson
Welch, M Wilson, Hala'ufia, Gibson

P and J Hodgson
Thompstone, Ojo, Bendy
Shingler

Before I start working out my 25 players, would like some academy players if poss

Not going to be near a pc until tomorrow, so can I delay the creation of London Welsh until tomorrow?

Aye

Interested in Welch

Btw thanks for sorting my bid Pooly. I get free wifi at the resort so I can come on most mornings and evenings that I'm not drinking

No probs fella, hope your having fun

Anybody got a decent TH available?

Wilson?

I only really need bench cover, I'm guessing you'd want a fair bit for him

ChequeredJersey wrote:Interested in Welch

I'm also in for Welchy

Make an offer. Looking to announce my 25 and London Welsh team for 8pm

Guys, what do you think my best players/partnerships are in these positions?

SR- 2 of Borthwick (current captain), Botha and Ryan
Inside centre - Allen or Geraghty or Fitzpatrick (I know what I think but would like confirmation) (Conrad Smith outside them)
Sub FH- Geraghty, Leonard, Stanley or one of the SHs (Parra and Wiggy) covering?
Back 3- any of Wyles, Goode, Halfpenny, Mitchell, Sam Smith

Thanks

Also, is Jonathan Poff now available to sign from relegated Falcons?

SR = Botha and Ryan
IC = Allen
Back 3 = WG Halfpenny and Mitchell FB Goode

And as far as I know yes Poff is available

Yea you can bid on Poff.

I'll get releases/budgets up to date tonight as been on phone.

is poff considered a foreign?

Where do I need to improve, Front row or Second row?

Front row

Poff not a foreign

Anyone got a decent LH available

I've got loads of loose heads prop. Have a look and bid

cant seem to get that rugby union manager 2012 download to work. is there anything you have to do?

Just run it or save it, practically it.

gets to 99% on mine then says cannot be downloaded and norton says it has a threat after that.

Got it going ok, pretty good too.

Try another pc Nick and just copy across, it's just an .exe file

How is it going for you Pooly, enjoying it?

Got to semi's 1st season with Falcons.

I don't understand signing players though. I went to sign Mas and it was ok, went back week later and got rejected???

Yeah usually you can only sign players when they're on the transfer list or up for loan as they're willing to leave too. It's how I managed to get a back line with Carter, Roberts, BOD after a few years.

How do you know when they're willing to leave?

My Toulon team at the moment (Just won T14)

1.ELR
2.Bruno
3.Hayman
4.Shaw
5.Juan Smith (Injury crisis at 5!!!!)
6.JMF
7.Armitage
8.JVN

9.Care
10.Wilkinson
11.Masaga
12.Giteau
13.Basteraud
14.Fitzgerald
15.Rooney

16.Oriloi 17.Emanuelli 18.Samson 19.Lapandry 20.Henjak 21.Pallison 22.David Smith

I snapped George Ford up on the cheap from Leicester whilst he was transfer listed as well. I keep getting warned off the FFR about my total of non french qualified players.

Because when they're transfer or loan listed they will usually sign for you. They only thing is you can't sign more than two World class players full time per a season.

impressive team mate, yeah I'd watch that. As being fined and warned loses respect with the board.

The board are pretty peeved with me , then i won the league

Aha that's the way to do it! lol

I was in the Heineken and kept losing at the semis. Won the league three seasons on the trot though

I still can't sign them when listed!!

with irish i managed to sign elton jantjies, shane geraghty and siya kolisi. no-one else would accept or want to join.

Ah I don't know then. Sometimes the club doesn't have a big enough reputation for some players.

What was this draft you were speaking of earlier by the way?

I'll sort it out when I get my laptop out, been up & down country last few days

Just added Steve Mafi , Graham Kitchener to my squad along with a transfer listed duo of Aurillian Rougurie and Horsea Gear.

Then Hugo Southwell says no......

Beastly!

Alright mate, I'll stay tuned.

Good morning lads,

Can you share your thoughts on where i need to improve first. 8 is a given but i'm chasing McCallister at the moment as Tom Heathcote isn't ready to nail down a big challenge to Farrell for a slot in the starting line.

Here's my strongest side if you want to have a craic at.

15.Jared Payne
14.Adam Ashley-Cooper
13.Elliot Daley
12.Wesley Fofana
11.George North
10.Owen Farrell
9.Luke Burgess

1.Alex Corbisero
2.Joe Grey
3.James Johnstone
4.Eben Etzebeth
5.George Robson
6.Chris Robshaw (c)
7.Matt Kvesic
8.Alex Grey/Jack Clifford

Think that front row might struggle a bit, especially as there aren't big pushing units behind them in the second row. Could do with a bit more quality in the back row as well I think. I'd go 8, 5, 2, 7

I think your scrum is ok, be focusing on back row mate.

Any tips for me:

1.Wood, 2.Dawiduk, 3.Jones, 4.Savage, 5.Whitelock, 6.Strokosch, 7.Qera/Burgess, 8.JVN/Narraway.

9.Yachvilli, 10.Burns/Lambie, 11.Sharples, 12.EFS/Roberts, 13.Trinder/Roberts, 14.JSD, 15.May/Morgan/Lambie

Hooker is the stand out for you prop, but Jones and Wood both great props. Not many big names in that pack though to make you stand out in predictions. Compare it to Tigers, Saints and Irish, all have names throughout 1-8

I'd look for a brute to play 4 prop and go Roberts and May in centres

Cheers guys, I'm hoping that the RC may catch a few teams short at start of the season! One area I am worried about is reserve Loosehead too. Just badly need some money but not sure how many players I can afford to release!!

Oh and add in Cane, Mills and Robson too!!

Budgets up to date & cash injections for a few clubs, good to be back on the laptop!

So what is this draft

We desperately need a new page for this one Pooly! I'd do it, but thought that you wanted to be the owner