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Waiting List
1. pullthestrings
2. Bathite

Yea, they're looking for a top LH, lock, flanker and 8. Chasing:

Eifion Lewis-Roberts, Jean-Philippe Genevois, Kris Chesney, Dean Schofield, Joe El Abd, Joe Van Niekerk, Fabien Cibray, Matt Henjak, Willie Mason and Christian Loamanu

Interesting.

Is that stat about 3 french titles right??? since 1994?

That there list of clear outs? Surprisded to see Schofield on it even more so to see JVN

They were talking about this when I was at the Biarritz vs Toulon game. Bruno was having a mare and lots
Of people were saying the same thing.
I did not believe it.
I
Think he has had a big fall out with Toulouse. Gary Botha
Has been starting lots of games until injury.

Toulouse are brutal at
Moving people on when they think they are going down hill or have talent emerging.

I think Servat is top top
Class and still looks like
A wc player which makes
Me think he had a bust up with someone at the club

Schofield and JVN have played well this season, I think they're looking for marque signings to replace them.

Servat alongside Kubriashvili will be mental.

Servat certainly not going down hill but can understand offloading if he wants 3 years.

Heard things about Schofield/ELR back to Sale but whilst I wouldn't turn either down neither would make me jump with glee. We have loads of locks who all do a job.

PSA signed all the ex sale lot as favourites so wouldn't be surprised to see them move on now he has.

Watching sale vs Leicester how good does millar look. Great game

Miller is very handy. With ball in hand he looks so elegant and is surprisingly strong similar to Foden.

Brady and Addison are the guys who could have international futures. Might seem silly thing to say but Brady's kick chases are unbelievable. He always seems to put pressure on or cause problems.

He's a bit like Sharples in the sense that they both have out and out gas

Brady impresses me
Every game I see. Quite a unit
Also

Brady is big guy. he hurt both shoulders last season which hindered him. I played against him when he played for Lancashire and he was class, ripped us to shreds. Never looked at by England age groups.

Hope you all had a good new years etc!! Back now!!

If anyone is after someone in foreigns the need a bit of extra cash for i'm willing to spend cash domestically....was gonna go for North but if Steven is, can't compete with him!

Driver mate,

Can we have a heads up on your plans for foreigns in future please? I've budgeted for the one signing for the season and spent money on nationals etc but now we are getting the two signings. Makes it hard to actually plan out if your going to change it about on short notice

Yeah i'll try and give better notice mate , was certain i mentioned it before but i must of imagined it lol.

You ok to do Thread this week mate?

Yeah mate its already up

Driver likes to be a little off the cuff I'm beginning to think....lol

How long will the transfer window be open?

Will it be a set time limit or until people have all signed an under 20 or have said they don't want to?

Both will be until the first 6 nations game.

Willing to either buy or sell for cash tonight

espn scrum saying that delon and kennedy will join steff at toulon

I heard that this morning. Nick will be a loss, Delon will as well, but not so much with Homer coming through.

Need to reinvest their wages in a grizzled scrummaging tighthead and hope that young Kieran Low comes through to add to the second row options.

I'd be pretty surprised with Kennedy signing, hardly the marque player they were talking about!

Toulon aren't just about marquee players.

Makes sense as Toulon haven't really got a top lineout man. I could see him going there.

They've stated they're planning on bringing in marque signings at hooker, LH, lock, flanker and 8.

Kennedy is still a fantastic lineout operator and alongside someone like Bakkies (if he is still there) would be fantastic.

If they are letting Schofield and Chesney go as is widely expected then they will need replacements.

As I said, they're looking to bring in a lock. Kennedy is hardly an upgrade on Schofield or Chesney though.

Kennedy is a better lineout operator than either of those two Pooly, and I believe is younger.

I realise he's younger, I'd just be surprised if he went to Toulon. I didn't think he was the level they were looking at.

Maybe they rate him a bit higher than you do mate.

I'd say Kennedy is a upgrade on Chesney although they are different players.

Kennedy and Schofield is opinion. Schofield is a 4.5 sort of lock so difficult to compare to the out and out lineout man.

I agree with pete than bakkies and kennedy could work well.

Just watching Bath/Irish game, whats going on with Irish's scrum lately?

Irish scrum is very hit and miss this year Pooly. We seem to either completely dominate or get completely dominated, no middle ground.

Lack of a settled front 5 is part of it I think. I know you have to rotate, but the changes seem to be pretty random and players are not getting the opportunity to work as units.

Corbs has had a couple of average games recently, which is a worry. He was carrying an injury and I think he's been rushed back and is still carrying it.

corbs has been poor recently for his standards and wood looks much better

ion and dermody are steady but not destructive

anyone seen Shaun Edwards column in the Guardian where he picks the England32 that he thinks Lancaster will pick in order to get England close to winning the 6Nations.

He's gone for Nick Wood in front row and kept Tindall in the squad.

Ryan Jones/Martyn Williams available.

Malzieu isn't for sale sorry!!

All available...

HK Chris Whitehead (E)
PR Juan Pablo Orlandi (ARG) (3)
PR Sakaria Taulafo (Samoa) (1)
PR Nic Mayhew (E)
PR Ben Moon (E) (3)
PR Carl Hayman (NZ) (3)
PR Bob Baker (1 or 3)
FL Rocky Elsom (AUS)
FL Liam Messam (NZ)
FL Alexander Lapandy (France)
FL/N8 Luke Watson (South Africa)
N8 Simon Taylor (Scotland)
N8 Ryan Kankowski (South Africa)
SH Charlie Davies (E)
SH Stuart Commins (SA/E)
FH Lionel Beauxis (French)
CE/FB Shane Geraghty (E)
CE Jean de Villiers (South Africa)
CE Willie Mason (Australia)
CE Casey Laulala (NZ)
WG Sitiveni Siviatu (NZ)
WG Julian Savea (NZ)
WG/FB Rory Lamont (Scotland)

Bath were great, think Bendy showed he can play in the wet he was brilliant.

Bakkies came on against Biarritz in the second half to replace shaw. he looked really fit and raring to go.

Shaw was the ony toulon player to put up any fight. He was very good although did give away about 6 penalties but he had to to stop the onslaught.

how did steffon play?

Pretty anonomous in all honesty but they did not turn up. The number 8 for toulon was dreadful.

Side profile wise steffan looks like a small basteraud. mistook them a few times from distance.

he won a few turnovers but toulons lineout was more than awful. Bruno had one of those days and they have no jumpers to hit really with steffan, schofield and Shaw as their prime targets.

JVN went up a few times also

I am going to watch the bath game later this evening on replay. How did donald do in it pooly??

Bath fan in my office crowing about how good the performance was

Just finishing watching that game, Toulon pretty average all round.

Donald had best game in Bath shirt by far. He's been pretty dire (as have Bath tbh) but looked a more comftable playing the kicking game. He still looks to force things too much but I think he always has, when it comes off its spectacular.

Irish were really poor, Bath scrum really dominated. Claassans and Bendy were very good. Attwood and Pereneyse played well too

anonmattyt wrote:I am going to watch the bath game later this evening on replay. How did donald do in it pooly??

Bath fan in my office crowing about how good the performance was

Bath had their best performance of the season and Irish their worst. Donald was ok, but didn't look like a World Cup winning All Black in all honesty. Abendanon was good, as was Cararro, and the whole of the Bath pack, but Claassens was their best player and really dictated how the game went.

I think Carraro is massively underrated and having him back and a few others will help Bath.


Bath have had a lot of injuries. Irish scrum must have been poor if perenyse went well in the scrum.

Bath really miss mears and Dixon also. Against worcester they had a prop playing hooker and it was embarrassing

perenise got the upper and on corbisiero which was really poor from corbs.

donald kicked wel, shingler kicked terribly and armitage had a shocker.

the impact garvey had was impressive, like a one man team at times.

Jimmy Goppereth set to sign a new deal at Falcons. Drats

That's terrible news

Hope Joel Hodgson moves on for the sake of his career. Tait just wastes the young talent that we have , Just in the same way Dave Thompson peed everyone off by incisting his Matt should be starting at hooker - Vyvyan left because of it!