Fantasy Aviva Premiership season 4

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Bath RFC	InTheFastLane
Exeter Chiefs	Driver - RIP 606
Gloucester	Anonmattyt
Harlequins	Steven_Sharks
Leicester Tigers	LukeLovesLuka
London Irish	stnick88
London Wasps	Arry
Newcastle Falcons	Sgt_Pooly
Northampton Saints	Dammit_Chris
Sale Sharks	SirJohnnyEnglish
Saracens	LDCPete
Worcester Warriors	prop_lyd

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1. Sam
2. pullthestrings
3. Bathite

punched lahiff in the eye during a ruck

he deserves to be banned

I just wanted to use the smiley

Still the best >>

Can't beat

Prop, what sort of side you putting out against me this week then mate?

Watching Bath v Saracens, James Short showing how he is lethal but still making mistakes. If he irons out some of these mistakes then he will have a good shot at international honours. Fearns putting in some work at 7 and Caldwell looking impressive.

Pete: i'll give you a clue.......in my starting xv i'm going to have 2 props and 2 2nd rows..... nah don't know yet haven't thought about it! Will try to get my team and tactics done tomorrow!!

Good player Fearns, not quite sure where his best position is though.

Pooly

Do you really think thats true?

Do you not rate him Steve?

You messing with my mind Pooly?? You will not break me

Lol....you're the first victim of the edit scam!!! Was expecting worse tbh, you've changed Steve!

When I first saw it I was about to start a

But thought I'd see the explanation first. I reckon he will be with England in the 6N in some capacity. With no Haskell around and possible international retirements

He just needs to nail a position and really go for it, would like to see him shine for the Saxons too. Be good for him playing at Bath.

Just settling down to watch Aus/Ita match with a bag of onion rings, life is sweet!

Rolland the ego ruining the first half, Aus scrum actually dominating!!

Spoke too soon, Castro just smashed Kepu

What did people make of Bryce Lawrence's officiating during the England game? It was so obvious that the southern hem and northern hem play different games and its officiated differently.

Personally thought he was awful and ruined the game.

Steven do you reckon Fearns will get into the England sqd by 6Nations? I'm not so sure, he hasn't quite got there for me yet - very good player, but needs to just be played in one position and allowed to improve.

You were right about Fa'ainga Steve, he had a right stinker.

Chris, I reckon Fearns will be there or there abouts. I reckon Moody and Easter might be phased out and Haskell shouldn't be picked in Japan. See him as the obvious choice as Eng's next 8 tbh. Had two storming games with Bath and playing the back row with Louw and Moody will help him develop.

A back row of Croft , Fearns and Fourie could be pretty handy post WC. Not expecting to many huge changes though.

Think we need to immediately play youngsters and give them gametime, we made the mistake of not doing this post 2003 and post 2007 and it leaves us frantically giving young players games 6 months before the WC.

Think Johnson has to be bold straight away and pick players for 2015, which is what we have to aim to win, as have so many youngsters coming through.

I'd find 4-5 young forwards and pick them in every England squad to give them experience and gradually phase them in over 2-3 seasons - I'd get Launchbury, Kvesvic in straight away (not to play of course!), would make sure Attwood replaces Shaw and then replace guys like Wilson and Payne from the EPS with Marler, Mullan and other young props who need exposure to what international rugby is all about.

Personally still think Johnson is the wrong man at the head of England, dont think he understands tactics properly, particularly in the backline - he seems to think rugby is won in the forwards, but these days its all about speed of attack - just look at the Aussies!

Cracking 2nd half from Aus. Pocock was quality

Can't see any young forwards jumping in as its simply too physical and intense. I agree that players like Mullan, Gaskell, Attwood and Fearns in there now and let the likes of Kvesic, launchbury and others get some AP game times. You have to be first choice at your club before you get a look in for England in my view.

Good players coming through though. young lad called Luke Wallace got MoM for Quins on Friday night. he was like a duracel bunny.

Steven, I;d get them involved in the ENgland set up though. If you can ear mark the best of the youngsters and just get them involved in the ENgland set up just to show them what it takes to be the best.

Do you think Gaskell will make it?

Like the look of Saints new 7. he's very good - as mad as Moody but a top talent from the looks of it. No idea where he came from, as usually quite good at keeping up to date with the youngsters coming through.

Calum Clark is getting good reviews at the moment too, couple tipping him for full England honours by 6Nations.

Gaskell needs to get strong. He is unbelievable at 6 at times, he is so good at turnovers for a man his size and you don't often see him go backwards in contract. Also scores a lot of tries and has gas. He offers so much more than your average lock.

Chris, Nutley was totally outplayed by Wallace on Friday night. never even heard of Wallace except that he was in my academy.

Is he playing lock now?

Thing is I think a lot of players will play well one week, then struggle the next - is he 18? Did so much work when I watched the first Saints game.

Gaskell is a lock by trade, playing at 6. i don't think he will get into the sale side as a back row when vernon, powell fourie are back/ fit. Especially with seymour there as well

France team:

France:15 Damien Traille, 14 Vincent Clerc, 13 David Marty, 12 Maxime Mermoz, 11 Aurélien Rougerie (c), 10 Francois Trinh-Duc, 9 Morgan Parra, 8 Louis Picamoles, 7 Julien Bonnaire, 6 Fulgence Ouedraogo, 5 Romain, Millo-Chluski, 4 Pascale Papé, 3 Luc Ducalcon, 2 William Servat, 1 Jean-Baptiste Poux Poux.
Replacements: 16 Guilhem Guirado, 17 Fabien Barcella, 18 Julien Pierre, 19 Imanol Harinordoquy, 20 Dimitri Yachvili, 21 Fabrice Estebanez, 22 Maxime Médard.

Not a bad little team...

Not a bad reserve pack....

Not at all

Didn't even notice that, Servat aside it's pretty much second choice! Scary!

Rougerie back to wing eh, not seen him there for a while.

Mermoz

Odds on him lasting the whole match......

reckon Clerc, FTD and Parra would probably start the WC final tomorrow

He'll play 50 minutes and Esta will come on i reckon or Traille to 12 with Medard to 15

Probably Rougerie and Traille as well

Think you're prob right there Driver, unless he goes off injured with a twisted sock after 3mins

Guys not around tomorrow, have the premiere of the film at the Royal Geographical Society - work might be a little intense for a bit after that, so have put my team in today and will try and do tactics early Thursday.

No worries mate, teams in so your good.

Lawes banned for two games - yet when Quade Cooper knees McCaw in the head he gets nothing. Hmmm, and they say there is no bias at all between northern and southern hemisphere teams...absolute b o ll o c ks.

Could have been worse, I guess but cant see how you ban Lawes and Cooper gets nothing.

For those who havent seen the Quade Cooper incident - how Lawes gets two match ban and Cooper is let off scot free is beyond me. Oh wait its because he is from the southern hem...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9RYZStDdDI

Anybody after tweaking their English players? Players that could be available:

LK Geoff Parling (England)
LK Ed Slater (England)
FL Ben Woods (England)
CE Dan Hipkiss (England)
WG Miles Benjamin (England)
WG Topsy Ojo (England)

Maybe..

FH Jonny Wilkinson (England)

Poor old Topsy, you've been trying to sell him for months....

Thats the problem when you have 2 good quality English wings, can't play them both when I've got players like Maitland, Mitchell, Bowe!

Think Matt is the greedy one, pretending he is ever going to play the likes of Habana and Guildford.

Possibly interested in Benjamin if he keeps up his strike rate! Have 3 of the Worcester backs then

Lol...don't think he played Habana last season?!?!

Think he loaned him out?

Habana was in my back 3 with Sivi last year