Summer Tournament

Summer tournament will start at the beginning of July and there will be 7 rounds (including the finals) of matches which will take us close to the start of the season. This is the format that it will take and I will knock up a home page for it once this season is over.

Format

- Two pools of 6 teams with each team playing the other teams in their pool once
- Top 2 from each pool go into the cup semi finals
- 3rd/4th place from each pool go into the shield semi finals
- 5th/6th place from each pool go into the plate semi finals
- All games are to be played at neutral venues

Rules

- No EQ player requirement, free reign to select whoever you choose in your teams
- Minimal tactics (10 lines maximum)
- Predictions with comments to assist managers will receive £1.5 million bonus
- Predictions without comments to assist managers will receive £0.25 million bonus

Pool A

Newcastle Falcons
Saracens
Gloucester
Leicester Tigers
Harlequins
London Irish

Pool B

Sale Sharks
Northampton Saints
Bath Rugby
London Wasps
Worcester Warriors
London Welsh

Prize Money

Cup
Winners - £6m
Runners Up - £5m
3rd - £4m
4th - £3m

Shield
Winners - £5m
Runners Up - £4m
3rd - £3m
4th - £2m

Plate
Winners - £4m
Runners Up - £3m
3rd - £2m
4th - £1m


Round 1
(To be played in New Zealand)
Match Thread

London Irish v Harlequins (at Eden Park)
Newcastle Falcons v Gloucester (at Westpac Stadium)
Saracens v Leicester Tigers (at Forsyth Barr Stadium))

London Welsh v Northampton Saints (at Waikato Stadium)
Bath Rugby v Worcester Warriors (at North Harbour Stadium)
Sale Sharks v London Wasps (at Rugby League Park)


Round 2
(To be played in Australia)

Gloucester v London Irish
Leicester Tigers v Harlequins
Saracens v Newcastle Falcons

Worcester Warriors v London Welsh
London Wasps v Northampton Saints
Sale Sharks v Bath Rugby


Round 3
(To be played in Hong Kong)

London Irish v Leicester Tigers
Gloucester v Saracens
Harlequins v Newcastle Falcons

London Welsh v London Wasps
Worcester Warriors v Sale Sharks
Northampton Saints v Bath Rugby


Round 4
(To be played in South Africa)

Saracens v London Irish
Newcastle Falcons v Leicester Tigers
Harlequins v Gloucester

Sale Sharks v London Welsh
Bath Rugby v London Wasps
Northampton Saints v Worcester Warriors


Round 5
(To be played in Europe)

London Irish v Newcastle Falcons
Harlequins v Saracens
Leicester Tigers v Gloucester

London Welsh v Bath Rugby
Northampton Saints v Sale Sharks
London Wasps v Worcester Warriors

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POS		Pool One	PLAYED	WON	DREW	LOST	P F	P A	P D	T F	T A	TBP	LBP	POINTS
1		Newcastle Falcons	5	4	0	1	141	120	+20	17	13	2	1	19
2		London Irish	5	3	1	1	131	122	+9	15	14	0	1	15
3		Leicester Tigers	5	3	1	1	131	130	+1	14	15	0	0	14
4		Gloucester	5	2	1	2	131	132	-1	16	16	1	2	13
5		Saracens	5	1	1	3	119	135	-16	13	16	0	3	9
6		Harlequins	5	0	0	5	122	136	-14	14	15	0	5	5

POS		Pool 2	PLAYED	WON	DREW	LOST	P F	P A	P D	T F	T A	TBP	LBP	POINTS
1		Northampton Saints	5	5	0	0	144	111	+33	17	13	2	0	22
2		Sale Sharks	5	4	0	1	142	118	+24	17	13	2	1	19
3		London Wasps	5	2	0	3	122	125	-3	13	14	0	3	11
4		Bath Rugby	5	2	0	3	102	138	-36	11	14	0	1	9
5		London Welsh	5	1	0	4	112	110	+2	14	12	1	2	7
6		Worcester Warriors	5	1	0	4	121	121	-	11	15	0	3	7

Should be some interesting combinations put out there during this.

I'll be trying loads of things out with players in this to try to gauge how you lot all see things with the players I have.

Mark. I'm going to try different combo's also probably different captain's and playmakers so would like feedback on that part as well!!

Venues for Round 1 fixtures updated.

Could someone put a blank Worcester squad form onto my page please so I have it easy access?

Playing my rc league side against you pooly. Waiting for code to be put up

Pete fancy playing one of AI/RC/6N teams?

Am looking to mix it up over the 5 games playing an RC/AI/6N/Full and Anglo Welsh side once each, so happy to go with whichever you want for the first game mate.

Similar plans myself. Start with RC team?

1 Steenka mp( if not selected by Boks for RC. Imagine he will be after last few top 14 performances)
2 Gray
3 Mas
4 Gray
5 Palmer/Robson
6 Ferris
7 Qera
8 Heaslip/Hari
9 Murray/TJ
10 Goosen
11 May
12 Matt Scott
13 JDJ
14 Sharples/JSD
15 May/Balshaw
16 Wood
17 George
18 Harden
19 Palmer/Robson
20 TJ/ Robson
21 Lamb/Donald
22 Hape
23 Balshaw/May/ JSD

Will be my RC lineup. Not looking bad at all. Looking forward to getting Matt SCott playing. Looked great for Edinburgh and Scotland this year. Outside bet for Lions squad at 12

ITFL, you ok to do RC squad this week?

LukeLovesLuka wrote:Similar plans myself. Start with RC team?

Sounds good to me buddy.

My team for our game will be this luke. Will get the match thread up before the weekend so that people have time to get their teams in before next Thursday.

Homer
Trimble
Trinder
Davies
Fitzgerald
Trinh-Duc
Parra

Corbisiero
Smit (c)
Jones
Skivington
Borthwick
Dusautoir
Rennie
Vermeulen

Chuter, Mullan, Harris, Kitchener, Johnson, Duvenage, Farrell, Taute

what team you gonna put out Steve, RC Champ team?

Most likely mate

Glos team- Seriously mobile outfit for the summer.

1 Coonie
2 Gray
3 JJ
4 Gray
5 Palmer
6 Ferris
7 Qera
8 Heaslip
9 TJ Perenara
10 Goosen
11 May
12 Scott
13 JDJ
14 Sharples
15 Balshaw
16 wood
17 George
18 Harden
19 Robson
20 Fasivalu
21 Murray
22 Lamb
23 JSD

Super mobile pack with gas to burn in backs
wave after wave of forwards coming round corner to get over gain line
Generate quick ball for goosen who looks to get it wide.
Target lineout with gray palmer heaslip
Quick throw ins and break up game from back 3

Worcester (RC Squad)

• Paul James
  
• Richardt Strauss
  
• BJ Botha
  
• Luke Charteris
  
• Ollie Kohn
  
• Ryan Jones ©
  
• Justin Tipuric
  
• Ben Morgan
  
• Dwayne Peel
  
• Kyle Godwin (k)
  
• James Short
  
• Seilala Mapusua
  
• Matt Hopper
  
• Julien Malzieu
  
• Olly Morgan
  

• Koree Britton, 17. Nathan Catt, 18. Chris Budgen, 19. Tom Savage, 20. Mamuka Gorgodze, 21. Tawera Kerr-Barlow, 22. Sam Vesty, Fergus McFadden
  

Tactics

*Forwards to look to gain the edge at the scrum,

*Charteris, Jones and Tipuric to pick off the lineout,

*Breakdown dominance from Jones and Tipuric with Morgan bashing it up,

*Quick ball for Peel when needed and Godwin to put us into the corners when needed but aim for running rugby,

*Maps to hit hard with runners off him and to let Hopper go,

*Wings to go looking for work with pace and power and Morgan to play the high ball game,

*Use subs as and when bringing on experience and youngsters gunning to impress,

*Hard defence looking to slow the ball down with our breakdown experts.

No net this weekend bar on the phone sorry (moving week).

SEMI FINALS

CUP

Newcastle Falcons vs. Sale Sharks
Northampton Saints vs. London Irish


SHIELD

Leicester Tigers vs. Bath Rugby
London Wasps vs. Gloucester


PLATE

Saracens vs. Worcester Warrriors
London Welsh vs. Harlequins

Nice easy game for me then