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

It will have to be Ciaran Fitzgerald because Wheeler is taken

Right i'm here

Tighthead - Paul Wallace
Openside - Schalk Burger
Number 8 - Tim Rodber
Centre - Will Carling
Wing - Christophe Dominici

Sugar! Just realised who i want as my 8! memory went blank earlier! fiddlesticks!

Nearly went for paul wallace myself driver, good choice. carling and dominici were also on my list

pullthestrings wrote:Ciaran Fitzgerald or Peter Wheeler..

I've already got Wheeler mate.

Ireland and British Lions captain Fitzgerald it is then

My tighthead and centre are still there!! Steve you best not do a 'Gibbs' again!!

yeah rodber & dominici good calls

prop pm me your tight head mate?? i want to make sure you haven't got mine

Driver I can't count Rodber as your 8 mate, he has played too many positions so im slightly tipping him as a blindside flanker.

Sorry mate going by England caps.

If someone asked me what was Rodbers best position I would have said number 8.

what about charvis? he is my 8, but according to espn scrum played about 20 games out of 96 there? want me to change it? not fussed either way

Bathite - Hooker
Steven - Tighthead, Centre and Winger
Luke - Scrum-Half
Driver - Eight(Sorry)

Rodber who forced Dallaglio to play 6 because he was our best 8

Hon: you'll have to wait and see :p

Hooker: Gordon Bulloch

Can't count Charvis either, I know he played 8 so I just put him down.

Confiding in overall games, Charvis will count as a blindside or openside.

Rodber counting as a 6 mate.

Bathite and Driver you have to pick again please.

I'll have Dean Richards as my 8 then please.

Steven - Tighthead, centre, winger
Luke - Scrum-half
Driver - 8

ahhh c'mon prop - i swear if anyone pics him I will cry

Rob Wainwright it is then

I really want my tighthead pick. I have a shortlist of 3, with 2 people in front of me. I know that prop will pick my number 1 choice, which means down to number 2, just hoping that Steve doesn't pick him or I am down to number 3.

That said, they were my shortlist before anyone picked and I am amzed that they haven't all gone already and I will get one of them.

My TH is going to be the Greatest Tighthead of them all - Graham Price
My N8 is going to be - Dean Richards
My Centre is going to be - Yannick Jauzion
My Winger is going to be - Phillipe Saint-Andre

GRaham who????

Right need to pick my 8 again, I will have Gary Teichman

And there is know way im counting Wainwright as an 8 either, only played a few games there for Scotland but played blindside the rest of the time.

Sorry again Driver but statistics mean everything.

I personally think that Rodber should be an 8.

shame you couldn't get the other two ponty boys Steven, that would have been an awesome front row

Steven_Sharks wrote:I personally think that Rodber should be an 8.

i agree - that was his best position and where I would pick him.

Damn you Steve, you have picked my first choice tighthead, which means I suspect that prop will now pick my second choice as I know he was going to go for Price.

Can't believe none of the first four picked Price. He would scrummage the Poopie out of the tightheads picked before him.

agreed LDC - price is a great choice, just lucky Faulkner and who was the other wilks? probably don't qualify as the ponty front row was notorious

I will count Rodber as an 8 then if it means this draft can get done quicker.

But not that happy with it, just to let you know.

I have completely forgotten about 3 players who I would have very close to there best in there position ever. Need to pray that I get some luck in the Free Choices.

Just realised Bathite got Slattery as an openside Will just have to settle for the 2nd best of all time in Jones

FFS!

But with Rodber thats like saying you can't have Umaga as a 12, or Robinson as a full back. It really is 6 and two 3's.

BANAFAN-AKA-HON wrote:agreed LDC - price is a great choice, just lucky Faulkner and who was the other wilks? probably don't qualify as the ponty front row was notorious

Boby Windsor was the hooker and him and Faulker played their last tests in 1979. I was going to go for it on the basis that they would have ciontinued playing club rugby after this point but could not find anything on t'internet evidencing them playing into the 80's.

Was hoping to pull them out of the bag like with Gibson, but sadly not to be.

Let me have Rodber!

Prop - Tighthead, Centre, Winger
Luke - Scrum-Half
Inthefastlane - Hooker

Bear has said you can have Rodber Driver.

Move on, nothing to see here people....



Whose pick is it?????

Driver, BBM prop and tell him to get his picks in mate.

Seriously again steve?? Argh!!!!!!!!

I'm going to go for Jeff Probyn then. Sorry if that's your 2nd pete but I know who your 3rd is too!!

Probyn was my 3rd mate, so no worries, I will take my 2nd choice who is

England and Lions monster of a tighthead Fran Cotton.

Jeff Probyn . . . . nice mate nice - he totally changed scrum time from a mash up to an art form . . . he terrorised his opposition and forced them to change the way they played. Good effort and now . . .. GONE - git . . .

Forgive my ignorance but not sure who these players flying around are!

COTTON???? surley not even into the 80's mate?

Centre: john dawes

Wing: John Bevan

Who do you not know pull?

Played on the 1980 Lions tour hon, definitely, but I'll find a link to show it.

BANAFAN-AKA-HON wrote:COTTON???? surley not even into the 80's mate?

holy snapping duck s h i t he did play for england n teh 80's feck me I didn't even bother okoking at him as thought no way he was an 80's player!!

AWESOME PICK!!

Fran Cotton not a Loosehead Pete

My Bill McLaren book has Cotton as his greatest ever loosehead but sadly he plays as 3 for Lions. Now I'm Gutted haha

damn that one slipped through . . .

Cotton's final test for England was against Wales in 1981...

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