Fantasy RaboDirect Pro 12

Title says it all really:

Get Playing

http://www.fantasypro12.com/

I'm in. Gonna be a really interesting challenge for the first eight rounds!

I'm in and have gone totally against what my head tells me and have gone for a dragons win away against Munster. Madness? Probably!

Sorry, scrap that comment by me. I thought this was the sports guru prediction competition that I've entered. I may have a go at this though...

Private 606 league at all?

Griff- back you up on that Dragons result! All the way. Well... maybe. If the bounce of the ball goes your way. No, I probably won't actually.

Ian Humphreys is quite low priced because of the Ulster palce kicking duties alternating between himself and Pienaar. But with Pienaar away at the RWC, I think its a bit of a bargain for the start of the league. He was consistent with the boot last year and got in for a few tries as well.

Just joined. There's a few funny players included. Lots of Dragons development players who will turn out for the semi pro clubs in the region but rarely if ever for the Dragons, E.g. They've given a choice of 6 Dragons number 8s! But only 1 Blues no.8 (Rush)???

Also, you can pick Gavin Quinell for the Scarlets, but he retired about a year ago due to blindness... May give him a miss then.

Hah! Paddy Wallace is Ulsters highest scoring player from last season. I'm not sure how he beats Humph and Pienaar but apparently... he does.

Sorted. i dont expect great things though as i am useless at remembering to transfer players.

I've created a league.

Password to join is '9dd84d28'

I joined that league you created Notch. I've made a few strange choices which could be great or could flop.

Happy with my team though.

Cheers Notch, I've added your pool details to the sticky https://www.606v2.com/t11914-rugby-tipping-fantasy-games#423574

I'm currently in 8 different Tipping/Fantasy coms across 3 sports and 5 tournaments/leagues so I think this one is one too far for me.

Bob Loblaw’s law Blog XV are in. and they’re going to probably kinda kick some… ball!

I'm in. Nant y Cachiad. maybe not brilliant but flowing...

I've joined - NGD

What the hell is Rabo?

It's still the Celtic League to me.

come on HERSH get with the times.

not sure if this has already been posted on here but with the season starting tomorrow:-

http://www.fantasypro12.com/Default.aspx

i see there is already a 606v2 league does anyone know the password?

I'm in. My first foray into the Celti.......... Rabo League.

Don't have a clue really but one of my rels plays for the Blues. Hope he has a great season.

Mickado wrote:Bob Loblaw’s law Blog XV are in

You, sir, are a mouthful!

Whos your relative breaker? Just asking so I know not to slag him off on here

Yes, I've set up a league and the password is 9dd84d28

All the details are here;

https://www.606v2.com/t12854-fantasy-rabodirect-pro-12

I've asked the mods to merge the two topics, hope you don't mind. Just trying to avoid confusion.

Gavin,

We've already got it running so I'll merge this with the other one..

cheers,
Line

cheers gents nice one

Notch wrote:

Mickado wrote:Bob Loblaw’s law Blog XV are in

You, sir, are a mouthful!

Whos your relative breaker? Just asking so I know not to slag him off on here

Michael Paterson

His great-grandfather was brother of my grandfather.

So don't diss him too much, Notch!

I'm in it'll make all the non Dragons games a bit more interesting

I'v just entered my team. Very Hibernocentric, but I'm not for apologising.

If the best teams in the league are Munster, Leinster and Ulster thats understandable

I've got 9 Irish based players in my team - (3 Munster, 3 Leinster, 2 Ulster, 1 Connacht). Then 2 from Ospreys, 1 Blues, 1 Dragon, 1 Scarlet, 1 Edinburgh.

Anyone find the site is acting the maggot? I remove one player from my team, then i look at it and 3 players are removed and the rest of the team has changed. Hope its just teething problems...

it was doing some odd things earlier. Try clicking on squad again and you should find it's ok

Rhys M. Thomas Prop Scarlets 6.0
2 Fergus Thomson Hooker Glasgow 6.5
3 Iestyn Thomas Prop Scarlets 7.0
4 Lou Reed Lock Scarlets 6.5
5 Steven Turnbull Lock Edinburgh 4.5
6 Andreis Pretorius Flanker Blues 6.5
7 Roddy Grant Flanker Edinburgh 5.5
8 Johnnie Beattie Number 8 Glasgow 5.0
9 Colin Gregor Scrum Half Glasgow 7.0
10 Ceri Sweeney Fly Half Blues 10.5
11 Tim Visser Winger Edinburgh 9.5
12 Ashley Smith Centre Dragons 6.0
13 Ashley Beck Centre Ospreys 5.5
14 Tom James Winger Blues 6.5
15 Barry Davies Full Back Ospreys 4.5

Good team McKay. I've gone for:

van der Merwe, Strauss, Archer
O'Driscoll, Tuohy
Tirpuric, Naoupu, Turnbull
O'Leary, Tovey
Laulala, Spence
Fitzgerald, Davies, Visser

Beattie is a great call at number 8 BTW.

Yeah I had a flash of inspiration remembering he wasn't going to the world cup. He should be chomping at the bit too.

Being half welsh, half scottish I've kept my team as a combo of the two nations. think it would do ok.

Red stags are looking good for the new season too...

red_stag wrote:Good team McKay. I've gone for:

van der Merwe, Strauss, Archer
O'Driscoll, Tuohy
Tirpuric, Naoupu, Turnbull
O'Leary, Tovey
Laulala, Spence
Fitzgerald, Davies, Visser

Beattie is a great call at number 8 BTW.

Out with a knee injury at the moment though Beattie. Not sure how long he'll be sidelined.

P. McAllister, A. Kyriacou, S. Archer
D. Browne, I. Evans
N. Ronan, J. Bearman, D. Ryan
G. Laidlaw, I. Humphreys
C. Lualala, D. Barnes
R. Fussell, J. Thompson, T. Visser

is my team. Hoping for great things but not expecting too much.

3 Ulster, 3 Munster, 3 Edinburgh, 3 Ospreys, 2 Leinster, 1 Blues

ScarletSpidermen

Iestyn Thomas
Tom Willis
Scott Andrews
Ian Evans
Ian Nagle
Justin Tipuric
Josh Turnbull
Ben Morgan

Jonathan Evans
Ian Humphreys
Andrew Turnbull
Casey Laulala
Andrew Bishop
Matthew Pewtner
Isa Nacewa

Anyone else think they have done an excellent job on the price of the players.

1 Duncan Jones Prop Ospreys 6.0
2 Richardt Strauss Hooker Leinster 7.5
3 Marcus Horan Prop Munster 5.5
4 Dan Tuohy Lock Ulster 5.5
5 Ian Evans Lock Ospreys 6.5
6 Andreis Pretorius Flanker Blues 6.5
7 Rhys Ruddock Flanker Leinster 6.0
8 George Naoupu Number 8 Connacht 4.0
9 Tomas O'Leary Scrum Half Munster 5.0
10 Ian Keatley Fly Half Munster 14.5
11 Tim Visser Winger Edinburgh 9.5
12 Casey Laulala Centre Blues 6.5
13 Nick De Luca Centre Edinburgh 4.5
14 Fionn Carr Winger Leinster 8.0
15 Jared Payne Full Back Ulster 4.0


Had to go with Payne and De Luca as i ran out of money.

red_stag wrote:Anyone else think they have done an excellent job on the price of the players.

Yeah, but a few weird ones. Keatley is very high- some of the guys at the RWC are high but they'll be decent marquee signings later in the season.

As far as I can tell what they've done is they've looked at last season, taken the stats for each individual player, fed them into the system and then priced players based on how many points they scored last year. So Chris Henry and Pedrie Wannenburg are priced much higher than the injury prone and international absentee Stephen Ferris, for example.

Keatley is the biggest gamble of the lot Mick. VERY VERY expensive, in his first season for Munster. He'll get game time but could crash and burn in a new environment.

If he kicks well then your looking at a good score Mick. Excellent team.

Jared Payne is set to arrive this weekend in Ulster. Not sure how quickly they'll want to rush him in if Adam D'Arcy is playing well.

red_stag wrote:Anyone else think they have done an excellent job on the price of the players.

Dom Ryan is more expensive than Sean O'Brien. D. Kearney and Fitz are the same. A few odd things, but overall it's very good.

Notch wrote:Jared Payne is set to arrive this weekend in Ulster. Not sure how quickly they'll want to rush him in if Adam D'Arcy is playing well.

Even better. I thought he wasn’t over here for a month or so yet. He’s a touch of class, I’m sure he’ll get his chance to rack up a few points for me shine in an Ulster jersey.

red_stag wrote:Keatley is the biggest gamble of the lot Mick. VERY VERY expensive, in his first season for Munster. He'll get game time but could crash and burn in a new environment.

If he kicks well then your looking at a good score Mick. Excellent team.

That’s my gamble alright. I figure if any team is going to put up some big scores at the start of the season it would be Munster, and Keatley can score big in a poor team. which is a good thing since he’s playing for you lads.

Mick but O'Brien will miss a huge amount of game time. Ryan was an excellent performer last year and will get a lot of games.

Fitz doesn't score many tries and was probably backed to travel to RWC.

I've three each from the Provinces, two from the Blues and one from Edinburgh (Try scoring machine)

1 John Afoa
2 Tom Willis
3 Duncan Jones
4 Damien Browne
5 Dan Tuohy
6 Andries Pretorius
7 Josh Turnball
8 Ben Morgan
9 Joe Bedford
10 Dan Biggar
11 Doug Howlett
12 Casey laulala
13 Adam Hughes
14 Tom Visser
15 Jared Payne


Anybody know when Payne is due to start playing?

Also anyone else having problems with random squads popping up instead of your own?

Notch wrote:

red_stag wrote:Good team McKay. I've gone for:

van der Merwe, Strauss, Archer
O'Driscoll, Tuohy
Tirpuric, Naoupu, Turnbull
O'Leary, Tovey
Laulala, Spence
Fitzgerald, Davies, Visser

Beattie is a great call at number 8 BTW.

Out with a knee injury at the moment though Beattie. Not sure how long he'll be sidelined.

P. McAllister, A. Kyriacou, S. Archer
D. Browne, I. Evans
N. Ronan, J. Bearman, D. Ryan
G. Laidlaw, I. Humphreys
C. Lualala, D. Barnes
R. Fussell, J. Thompson, T. Visser

is my team. Hoping for great things but not expecting too much.

3 Ulster, 3 Munster, 3 Edinburgh, 3 Ospreys, 2 Leinster, 1 Blues

I know he is but I reckon we'll see him back more quickly than you might expect. I think the injury is more likely to his ego than his knee

1 Adam Jones
2 Matthew Rees
3 Mike Ross
4 Alun-Wyn Jones
5 Richie Gray
6 Andreis Pretorius
7 Danny Lydiate
8 Toby Faletau
9 Eoin Reddan
10 Jonathan Sexton
11 Shane Williams
12 Casey Laulala
13 Jonathan Davies
14 George North
15 Felix Jones

I meant to pick Gethin Jenkins at 1, ahh well - COME ON ADAM!

I think my backline has a good chance of scoring tries, but I only have 1 kicker (I accidentely picked Blair, then realised he probably wont be playing this season)

Linebreaker wrote:I'm in. My first foray into the Celti.......... Rabo League.

Don't have a clue really but one of my rels plays for the Blues. Hope he has a great season.

Haahaa, me too.

We need a good Lock/Backrower to replace our oldies. Go on Paterson

mpc28 wrote:
Anybody know when Payne is due to start playing?

Also anyone else having problems with random squads popping up instead of your own?

That happened to me once but I just refreshed and it was fine. Jared Payne won't arrive until the start of next week, probably won't be involved for a week or two.