Rugby Union Legends Game - Draft

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Rounds One and Eleven (Loosehead Prop and Winger)
1.Banafan-aka-hon - Os Du Randt/Jonah Lomu
2.GloucesterBear - Jason Leonard/David Campese
3.Pullthestrings - Tom Smith/Jason Robinson
4.Bathite - Tony Woodcock/John Kirwan
5.Inthefastlane - Bill Young/Bryan Habana
6.Driver - Trevor Woodman/Shane Williams
7.Steven_Sharks - Craig Dowd/Jeff Wilson
8.Prop_Lyd - Olo Brown/Ieuan Evans
9.LDCPete - Christian Califano/Joe Roff
10.Lukelovesluka - Graham Rowntree/Rory Underwood

Rounds Two and Twelve (Hooker and Centre)
1.GloucesterBear - Keith Wood/Tana Umaga
2.Pullthestrings - Sean Fitzpatrick/Philippe Sella
3.Bathite - Raphael Ibanez/Tim Horan
4.Inthefastlane - Brian Moore/Danie Gerber
5.Driver - Steve Thompson/Will Greenwood
6.Steven_Sharks - Phil Kearns/Scott Gibbs
7.Shark Bite Cider - Uli Schmidt/Frank Bunce
8.LDCPete - Anton Olivier/Mike "Frail" Gibson
9.Lukelovesluka - John Smit/Jeremy Guscott
10.Banafan-aka-hon - Keven Mealamu/Stirling Mortlock

Rounds Three and Thirteen (Tighthead Prop and Centre)
1.Pullthestrings - Carl Hayman/Brian O'Driscoll
2.Bathite - Phil Vickery/Jason Little
3.Inthefastlane - Al Baxter/Denis Charvet
4.Driver - Paul Wallace/Will Carling
5.Steven_Sharks - Graham Price/Yannick Jauzion
6.Prop_Lyd - Jeff Probyn/Phil de Glanville
7.LDCPete - Fran Cotton/Ray Gravell
8.Lukelovesluka - John Hayes/Elton Flatley
9.Banafan-aka-hon - Pascal Ondarts/Mike Catt
10.Cookie Monster 15 - Richard Loe/Aaron Mauger

Rounds Four and Fourteen (Lock and Winger)
1.Bathite - Martin Johnson/Doug Howlett
2.Inthefastlane - John Eales/Rupeni Caucau
3.Driver - Bakkies Botha/Christophe Dominici
4.Steven_Sharks - David Giffin/Philippe Saint-Andre
5.Prop_Lyd - Bill Beaumont/Tony Underwood
6.LDCPete - Robin Brooke/James Small
7. Lukelovesluka - Simon Shaw/Joe Rokocoko
8.Banafan-aka-hon - Brad Thorn/Va'aiga Tuigamala
9.GloucesterBear - Olivier Merle/Lote Tuqiri
10.Pullthestrings - Malcolm O'Kelly/Cedric Heymans

Rounds Five and Fifteen (Lock and Full Back)
1.Inthefastlane - Fabien Pelous/Serge Blanco
2.Driver - Victor Matfield/Christian Cullen
3.Steven_Sharks - Wade Dooley/Gavin Hastings
4.Prop_Lyd Moss Keane/Matt Burke
5.LDCPete - Ian Jones/J.P.R Williams
6.Lukelovesluka - Danny Grewcock/Percy Montgomery
7.Banafan-aka-hon - Chris Jack/Josh Lewsey
8.GloucesterBear - Olivier Brouzet/Chris Latham
9.Pullthestrings - Paul O'Connell/Gareth Thomas
10.Bathite - Nathan Sharpe/Mils Muliaina

Rounds Six and Sixteen (Blindside and Scrum Half)
1.Driver - Richard Hill/Fourie Du Preez
2.Steven_Sharks - Francois Pienaar/Gary Armstrong
3.Prop_Lyd - Josh Kronfeld/Robert Jones
4.LDCPete - Jean Pierre Rives/Jean-Baptisite Elissalde
5.Lukelovesluka - Martin Corry/Kyran Bracken
6.Banafan-aka-hon - Rocky Elsom/Byron Kelleher
7.GloucesterBear - Reuben Thorne/Graeme Bachop
8.Pullthestrings - Jerry Collins/Pierre Berbizier
9.Bathite - Fergus Slattery/Bryan Redpath
10.Inthefastlane - Graham Mourie/Dimitri Yachvili

Rounds Seven and Seventeen (Openside and Prop)
1.Steven_Sharks - Michael Jones/Gethin Jenkins
2.Prop_Lyd - Richie McCaw/Gareth Chilcott
3.LDCPete - Peter Winterbottom/David Sole
4.Lukelovesluka - Neil Back/Rodrigo Roncero
5.Banafan-aka-hon - George Smith/Greg Somerville
6.GloucesterBear - David Wilson/Pieter De Villiers
7.Pullthestrings - Martyn Williams/Dai Young
8.Bathite - Serge Betsen/Sylvain Marconnett
9.Inthefastlane - Phil Waugh/Martin Castrogiovanni
10.Driver - Schalk Burger/Adam Jones

Rounds Eight and Eighteen (No8 and Hooker)
1.Prop_Lyd - Zinzan Brooke/Colin Deans
2.LDCPete - Wayne Shelford/Peter Wheeler
3.Lukelovesluka - Scott Quinnell/Richard Cockerill
4.Banafan-aka-hon - Lawrence Dallaglio/Mark Regan
5.Gloucesterbear - Taine Randell/Jeremy Paul
6.Pullthestrings - Sergio Parisse/Ciaran Fitzgerald
7.Bathite - Dean Richards/Gordon Bulloch
8.Inthefastlane - Morne Du Plessis/Michael Foley
9.Driver - Tim Rodber/Mario Ledesma
10.Steven_Sharks - Gary Teichman/Yannick Bru

Rounds Nine and Nineteen (Scrum Half and Free Choice)
1.LDCPete - Joost VD.Westhuizen/Thomas Castaignede
2.Lukelovesluka - George Gregan/Austin Healy
3.Banafan-aka-hon - Nick Farr-Jones/Carlos Spencer
4.GloucesterBear - Agustin Pichot/Simon Easterby
5.Pullthestrings - Rob Howley/Neil Jenkins
6.Bathite - Justin Marshall/Emile Ntamack
7.Inthefastlane - Matt Dawson/Juan Martin Hernandez
8.Driver - Mike Phillips/Brian Lima
9.Steven_Sharks - Fabian Galthie/Jonathan Davies
10.Prop_Lyd - David Kirk/Derek Quinnell

Rounds Ten and Twenty (Fly Half and Free Choice)
1.Lukelovesluka - Stephen Larkham/Ben Kay
2.Banafan-aka-hon - Jonny Wilkinson/Abdelatif Benazzi
3.GloucesterBear - Grant Fox/Jaque Fourie
4.Pullthestrings - Dan Carter/Lewis Moody
5.Bathite - Michael Lynagh/Chris Paterson
6.Inthefastlane - Naas Botha/Sebastien Chabal
7.Driver - Andrew Mehrtens/Dafydd James
8.Steven_Sharks - Mark Ella/Andy Irvine
9.Prop_Lyd - Hugo Porta/Alan Bateman
10.LDCPete - Joel Stransky/Mike Teague

Chris Jack and Brad Thorn will be fine.

Just need a blindside flanker but I will wait.

Watching Mock the Week anyway.

My locks then will be.

Olivier Merle & Olivier Brouzet.

after much thought I am having to go for Rocky Elsom

so bear:

chris jack. Brad Thorn. Rocky Elsom.

ok. let me know when I need to pick again!

Think you have basically finished for the first positions in each section banafan, just really need pullthestrings to get his picks in asap.

Will add Elsom for you.

My blindside flanker will be.

Reuben Thorne

What happens if Pull want Tim Horan. He should get him in theory so perhaps remove him from Bathites name!

Yes no need to remove just yet.

Pullthestrings has it all to do, if he picks Horan I will just cross Horan off from Bathite and tell him to pick again.

nearly finished!
have some big ones to do yet.
hooker, prop etc! but were getting there!

Morning all!! Lovely day for a first aid duty, welsh athletics!!

welsh - athletics, isn't that a contradiction in terms?

What have you got 80 yard chip van chase?
Leek toss
THe being able to name that long railway station without dribbling???

Oh hon you joker!! There's also a chase the sheep round and a catch the rain!!

Is it my pick on anything?

errrr bear sin't Rueben Thorne lock not a flanker, going by usual positions?

just saying

oh yeah the sheep chase, forgot about that . . .

Hooker, Scrum Half and Fly Half Driver

Driver, its your turn to pick a hooker (not the one from last night though mate)

Yes Hooker, Scrum Half and Fly Half.

I see Pullthestrings is online, he best get cracking he is keeping many waiting.

Reuben Thorne played the majority of All Blacks games at flanker, so I think it's acceptable.

I'm out at the moment so won't be able to get my selections in until later. Obviously disappointed about the Sella situation, see it as the same as Umanga. Will go into more later.

Sella is definitely an outside centre Pullthestrings sorry.

Umaga is a difficult one, he played a lot of times at 13 for New Zealand, but also played 12 and has played 12 this season for the Chiefs.

LDCPete wrote:Driver, its your turn to pick a hooker (not the one from last night though mate)

haahhaha but i bet he got HIS number for later though . . .

I personally think if your picking centers you should pick either 12 or 13 unless they were an out right 12 or 13 like Sella - it's too hard to argue otherwise.

like you have done with Thorne - he was mainly a lock mate

but your the boss bear

It's hard you have to be strict, but Thorne played most of his games at flanker for New Zealand.

We all know Umaga can play 12 and 13, Sella I have definitely seen enough to warrant him as a 13 if you look on espn scrum he played a lot of matches for France of course but most of them have him playing at 13, with a few at 12.

Hard to decide.

LDCPete wrote:Driver, its your turn to pick a hooker (not the one from last night though mate)

You know me too well Pete lol


Hooker i'm going for world cup winner Steve Thompson
Scrum Half i'm adding Australian world cup winning captain Nick Farr-Jones
Fly Half i'm going with the greatest man to don the All Blacks 10 jersey Andrew Mehrtens

maybe the thing to do is let poeple just pick a center - instead of inside outside . . . .

driver I have nick far-jones

and dam you for taking thompson

Nick Farr-Jones was taken by Banafan.

Other two are ok though, you need to pick a scrum-half again.

Westhuizen, Gregan, Farr-Jones, Pichot, Howley, Marshall and Dawson all gone.

I'll take the 2009 Mike Phillips then

Mike Philips and his drunken violent ways . . .. lol

there is an up to date list ( I assume bear) at the top of the page showing who has gone . . . so what about this centers thing Bear?? wouldn't it be easier to just allow people to pick a center wether its inside or outside?

So just pick any centre is what your saying.

Could do.

would make life easier and the debate about who played 12 or 13 when in theory most centers could switch if needed!

And in honesty if people are picking they are likely to try and pick a 12 and 13 in turn anyway . . .

just a thought . . .

it doesn't bother me either way though as I am at the bottom of the choice list so am screwed either way, not sure how many decent ones will be left!!!

Need steve to come online so I can start ploughing through mine!!

Hooker - Phil Kearns of Australia
Scrum half - Fabian Galthie of France
Fly Half - Mark Ella of Australia

get ploughing then prop you drunkard . . .

Hooker still pondering

Scrum Half: David Kirk

Outside Half: Hugo Porta

oooo Porta! nice - Dacid Kirk? Iwill have to check up on him

and never heard of: Still Pondering? is he Australian?

No Fdp on the scrummies eh...

mike '2009' phillips - brilliant - sure you don't want Mike 'cardiff 2011' Philips

I could do with a drinking buddy....

should think he will get picked up pretty quick in the bidding when it starts!

Hon: kirk's the 1987 N.Z captain!!

All updated.

Still pondering about the centre sitution though, Pullthestrings has already pick Sella and O'Driscoll.

Umm

Captain Kirk lmfao ahhh when they won the first world cup . . . why was he captain?

Needed.

Prop - Hooker
Bathite - Tighthead prop
Pullthestrings - Lock 4 & 5, Blindside, Openside and Number 8
LDCPete - Fly Half

Centres I haven't decided.

GloucesterBear wrote:All updated.

Still pondering about the centre sitution though, Pullthestrings has already pick Sella and O'Driscoll.

Umm

well its up to you mate - your the Legends God so your rules count!

i am uttelry screwd in teh centers situation - I have an idea of about 10 centers I would like but I can see that being bottom of the pile I am going to need an idea of about 20 decent centers to choose from depending who gets picked !!!!

I don't think I can name 20 decent centers

lol

Im counting Reuben Thorne as a flanker because that's where he played most of his games for All Blacks.

Sela im counting him as a 13, played a lot of games but if you look yourself 13 crops up plenty of times.

Umaga has played both inside and outside and is a difficult one to decide on.

There's ambiguity in every position Bear, Leonard could ply both sides, Corry was an 8 not a 6. Let sleeping lions lay I say! :wink:

It is hard.

Leonard can play both sides, Corry played enough at 6 to count as one, Umaga has played enough times at 12, Sela though most of time played for France as a 13 you can check the stat line ups to see that.

The only thing I will do, is everyone can pick any centre but I will let you keep Sela and O'Driscoll Pullthestrings.

Inthefastlane I will let you pick your centre, any centre inside or outside.

Danie gerber!