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Exeter Chiefs	Luke
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Harlequins	Driver
Leicester Tigers	Pooly
London Irish	Pull
London Wasps	Nick
London Welsh	Flux
Northampton Saints	Johnny
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FULL FOREIGNS (Summer transfers)

1st bid - 0900 Monday 04 June

2nd bid - 0900 Monday 02 July

Summer foreigns close - 31 August

ACADEMY INCREASED TO 20

WAITING LIST:
1. HERSH

Lions team for me

1 Healy
2 Best
3 Cole
4 Grey
5 POC
6 Ferris
7 Warburton
8 O'Brien / Denton
9 Care
10 Sexton
11 Halfpenny
12 Davies
13 Tuilagi
14 North
15 Kearney

My favourite team to watch (with some Irish bias)

1 Marler
2 BDP
3 Cole
4 Grey
5 Whitelock
6 Kaino
7 Armitage
8 Parisse
9 Care
10 Carter
11 Tagicakibau
12 SBW
13 Smith
14 North
15 Armitage

Goppereth gets about 50k a year. Only Swinson of note has left.

Driver - RIP 606 wrote:Goppereth gets about 50k a year. Only Swinson of note has left.

Jesus, that's low. Would take me a hell of a lot more than that to move from Auckland / Wellington to Newcastle!

You can at least 150k to that Driver, no way is Gopperth on 50k

I'd be very surprised. Would imagine he would have been on more than that in NZ? 50k is about what the youngsters get, someone like Nathan Catt would be on that at Bath

I think Gopperth is on around £200k at least. bearing in mind Irish offered him around £200k and he turned it down, Falcons must have offered more.

Carl Hayman was on £350k which I think is still the most a AP player has been paid.

Butch was on £250k when he joined
Moody on ~£200k
Attwood ~ £160k

I'd imagine Louw and Watson around £150k

I love that THs are the best paid, think it is brilliant and very fair

ps. Struggling so much thinking about the real Aviva season next year without thinking about this league! Keep getting excited about Franks and Steyn at Bath, then come crashing down. Can't picture Tigers without JOC, Saints without Read

http://planetrugby.com/story/0,25883,16024_7887132,00.html

Man alive, had speculated that this would have been the perfect signing for Bath! Always really liked watching him, would have been a good option at 12,13 and 15 and probably not silly money

He's got a tigers type of deal where there's lots of sponsorship floats his way.

Is anybody here interested in entering a beach 7s tournament?

The RFU are hosting the Seaton beach 7s on the August bank holiday sunday and there is a £1000 prize on offer for the overall winner and £500 for the shield.

Squads are £10 entry fee and you get 10 free pints with that.

E-mail JonathanBenson@RFU.com to enter a team of 10.

I'll probably be able to find a cheap hotel nearby for you guys to stay in if you plan to stick around over night.

Driver - I am in a beach festival this weekend. The winner goes on to represent England!

http://www.newburybeachtournament.co.uk/

There's one on the island as well this weekend. Although I don't think the winner progresses further on. We've dominated it for the last five years lol

Sounds bang tidy Pull , love 7s tournaments. Too fat and crippled to play so i just spend all day being the mascot and drinking port and eating BBQ food.


Flux ,

Is rugby big on Isle of Wight? I know there's only Jersey on Jersey which is a bit odd as who are there juniors meant to play?

Aha I'm too unfit atm to play, although in my more bulky frame I could anchor down a three man scrum and pretend to be a prop.

It's relatively big, easily the second biggest sport during the season I'd say. Football is miles ahead though, we have like fives leagues on the island off the top of my head for Football. You've got my club Sandown and Shanklin Hurricanes at the top, then the Isle of Wight team Ventnor around at the same level, then Ryde. I haven't played for Hurries for almost two years other than friendlies or maybe the odd two's game because of uni.

But there are four Rugby teams on the island, and more often than not three can put two teams out on a saturday. We've also put three teams out and head a triple header down the club.

When I played age groups from U16 Jersey played us because Hampshire was the closest county to them. They made a trip out seeing each youth team because the'y usually fly over Saturday and stay the night ,and then play sunday and leave sunday evening.It was awkward for them to get to us because they'd have to fly over to Southampton and then get a train to the ferry over and then meet a coach. Or meet a coach and ferry across.
Alternative years teams would go over there and play them.

If anybody fancies a friendly against someone else against someone else in the league or a team outside it, add it to the thread and I will stick a game on there. Otherwise feel free to predict and comment on the game between Driver and I

It sounds like it's got a pretty decent rugby base to work from and if all the clubs junior systems click you'll be laughing.

That would be where the system faulters a bit. Each club doesn't have its own youth system. Through the age groups up to colts there is one side called Vectis (Roman name for the IoW) and it runs "seperate" from the clubs. I say it should run seperate, but coaches are usually members of one of the top three clubs. Therefore each year group usually a bulk of those players end up at the club their coach was from. It's a bit of a mess from the bottom up.

It'd be brilliant for each club to develop their own youth system, but there wouldn't be quite enough players. There was once talk of all the teams putting players into an Island Baa-baas style team to compete higher up the leagues.

Not going to be on here a lot for the next couple of weeks. Will try and get on but can't be certain.

If its looks like i'm going to miss a fixture if someone could just copy and paste my 7's or XVs from the previous round of fixtures it would be appreciated.

Will do no worries Ollie

Duncan Bell new Lydney Head Coach!!

Amazing! What a top bloke. Do you prop at that club prop? If so, you're in for a real treat.

Heard that he was going to be the Clifton coach though?

I used to. Yeah I head that too but it's on Lyd's website. I sometimes go back for 2nds games.

http://www.pitchero.com/clubs/lydneyrugbyfootballclub/

We playing cup this weekend??

Will give it a miss this weekend and get it up monday for next weekend Pooly

Sounds good mate.

Prem fixtures:

https://www.606v2.com/t32479-fixtures-2012-13#1394344

Great first fixture...

Anyone got a ball carrying six, and a decent centre? Willing to offer a bit

What kind of centre?

Can't really offer a 6 though, I'm looking to add another backrower long term anyways

Have Fasa available for right deal.

Stormers poor today, Rebels pushing them all the way

Guys where can i improve next

1.Corbs/Gill/Lambert
2.Grey/Bunchman/Harris-Wright
3.Johnstone/Budgen/Sinckler
4.Etzebeth/Denton/Matthews
5.Hargreaves/Robson/Merrick
6.Robshaw/Clifford/A Grey
7.Kvesic/Skinner
8.Alberts/Grey

9.Burgess/Berry
10.Farrell/Heathcote
11.North/Hamilton
12.Fofana/A Short
13.AAC/Stuart/Daley
14.J Short/Lindsey Hague
15.Payne/Southwell

Hooker is the obvious one I'd say. Not many line out options there though, a great thrower like best?

I'd say Alberts , Hargreaves and Robson are pretty capable of delivering quality lineout ball.

Hooker is the obvious one along with 7 and 10. Big advantage of being Quins is they churn out wizz kids for fun.

Six nations back line of

Burguss , Heathcote , Hamilton , AAC , Payne , Short , Lindsey Hague has some real weels about them.

All pretty good mate, just no focal point line out leader such as mullet or poc

Loads of lineout options. Hargreaves is great in lineout, as is Etzebth, Robshaw & Alberts.

Gray is ok for me, solid option.

Wing or 7 are standouts but a v good side

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2ncPd7jJLk

One of the best England performances post 03.


I hope Kvesic kicks on big style , think he could be a superstar hence why i paid big to get him off ITFL.

Henson to play 10 for Welsh

http://www.skysports.com/video/inline/0,,23397_7887310,00.html

Chizora looks massive next to Haye.

Haye looking goosed

Bye bye Chizora .......

He absolutely smashed him in the 5th,

He'll never beat Vitali or Vladamire though.

No chance, good finish though

Great finish , thought Chisora's left hook after the bell would have rattled Haye a bit but must of fueled the fire a bit more.

Feel like a bruised peach after beach rugby yesterday.

Drive I fancy Kvesic to be in the England team as our long term 7. I saw him in some games for Woss and when he focussed on getting over the ball at the breakdown, it was Pocock/Brussow-esque. Just see the fact that he won't play there and more 8 will however kill any aspirations

Thinking of adding 2nd set of games to the summer cup groups so you play each other home and away. Gives us games every week up till the start of the season. Any objections?

Fine by me. Back in lectures. Very dull

What you studying CJ?

Medicine. A month of pathology lectures now before we are back on clinicals. Pathology is not fun

Sounds nasty mate dont envy you!