Rugby Union Legends Game - Draft

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

Just Marking

Hon - you're up ..

so i choose a prop & winger . . . easy

Os Du Randt

Jonah Lomu


thats me done then for the next 10 rounds

You only pick the prop this round Hon

eh why does it say prop & winger?

ok cool - Os DU Randt then

and looks like prop has finally taken team 10 yippeeee

Rounds One and Eleven (Loosehead Prop and Winger)

One = Prop
eleven = Winger

Do the winger the second time around I assume.

ahh I see!! what a numpty - cool Du Randt for me then please

should there be a list of players that get chosen to make life easier for the other managers as they pick to see who's gone already - at the top of the page maybe?

Yeah Round Eleven is winger hold your horses mate.

Os Du Randt then mate.

Or put the players pick next to their name?

Is that ok?

he's done it - good lad

prop said he would take on team ten finally - so he can pick himself - we haev ten managers coooolio

Draft suspended for five minutes.

I will update the homepage and this page for prop.

Draft Re Open.

I pick Jason Leonard

Pullthestrings your pick mate.

lol Leonards a tighthead mate, but suppsoe he played loose as well . . . a bit

Bear -

I'm not sure! Tom Smith - how would he be rated? or Woodcock?

tom smith - highly mate, woodcock as well

Leonard played both sides brilliantly

mainly tighthead though mainly mate because Probyn forced him to move by being an animal . . . ooops siad too much . . .

Pullthestrings who you picking mate, everyone will rate the players of when they were in there prime, Smith would be good.

Leonard played both sides, Vickery came along and Woodman also so I will play Leonard at loosehead.

Tom Smith

Tom SMith - The Silent assassain - very good choice mate, he's highly rated in my books . . .

As for leonard you want to be playing him tight head if you can bear . . . yes he played loose but only because of Probyns magnificent effort at loose. Either way he's a great great choice.

Bahtites up then, it starts getting interesting here on in . . .

Woodcock,

No faffing around!

Inthefastlane's turn now, guess he will be on later tonight.

Just realised I'll be getting last picks for some of the tastier positions - back row especially

GloucesterBear wrote:Inthefastlane's turn now, guess he will be on later tonight.

Sorry Driver that's when he is most active isn't it.

Back row you will be fine Pullthestrings, that's probably along with wing and centre the position which has the most depth of quality.

It will work that people will be strong in different areas. i will have a fairly tasty back 5 of my pack but a weak at half back. Will make the inter team transfers interesting.

yeah think the draft might take a little while!

I know it may be complicated but would it be best opening each draft now to hurry along? We could be here a week or so if things go against us

Could be an idea. Just make sure obviously that people don't choose before their go.

So I could choose my tighthead prop now for example but have to wait for everyone before lock.

I see, but there is orders of who picks first and what not.

Dont' think it will work if you do that steven_sharks.

Unless I do open loosehead and winger together.

Hooker and Inside centre together, Tighthead and outside centre together.

It will be two at once then which would kind of speed things up a little.

I think your idea of doing the two together is good. LH and WG and TH OC etc

Yep lets do that then.

Hon you can pick your first winger.

doubling them up - ok cool - that will save a bit o time!

Jonah Lomu then if thats cool

David Campese for me, played in the 90's but more a 80's player still allowed though I did state.

Pullthestrings your pick for winger

For Campese, surely the earliest he can be rated is 1990 which means he was towards the tail end of his career...

I'll go for Jason Robinson

Played in 1991 and 1995 World Cup so I guess he is fine.

Jason Robinson superb, your next Bathite.

Me and Pete get the sort straw by a distance here with the way the draw has gone. Why are people doing prop AND winger?

if he played in the 90's which he did he counts - campese is a great shout and WILL be rated at his prime by me. good call

Also jason robinson this draft is great as you can't get all the players you want - Robinson is the mannnnnn

Yeah Robinson is class as is Campese

What's the year range again? Not sure Kirwan would qualify, which is a joke. As he is a true legend

1990-2009.

You only get the short straw in some positions Luke, when it reaches openside you pick 4th which is pretty good.

There are loads of quality players from 1990-2010, its not like the AP and ERL game when you can only buy players from 2011 what are playing now.

Everyone will be fine, some people will be stronger in the forwards, while others will be stronger in the backs, making it really competive, plus you have foreigns where you can buy even more quality players from a whole two era's.

Luke - you've got first choice at half backs - probably the most influential positions on the park.