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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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Waiting List
1. Sam
2. pullthestrings
3. Bathite

Can managers do what they did to others this week by putting my strongest team on my page!

I'd appreciate the same!!

I wouldn't mind the same if people don't mind. Struggling to decide where to play my EQ's

Shingler...idiot.

what did he do??

Peter Fitzgibbon is one of the worst refs I've seen. What an awful bit of refereeing for that try! Misses two blatant things in 10 secs.

Spear tackle. Watching it again the player twisted in the tackle which made but look worse.

My days Courtney can tackle

Getting a hatred for Fitzgibbon now. Surely a high tackle

A little bored so am doing what I think will be the Lions 22 when we face oz (Which could easily be a unreal series. Really wanna go out for it.

1. Cian Healy
2. Dylan Hartley
3. Dan Cole
4. Richie Gray
5. Courtney Lawes
6. Tom Croft
7. Sam Warburton (c)
8. Sean O'Brien
9. Ben Youngs
10. Rhys Preistland
11. George North
12. Jamie Roberts
13. Manu Tuilagi
14. Chris Ashton
15. Ben Foden

16. Lloyd Burns
17. Gethin Jenkins
18. Bradley Davies
19. Dan Lydiate
20. Connor Murray
21. Owen Farrell/Jonathan Sexton
22. Lee Halfpenny

That could be a great Lions side. Against what I suspect will probably be the best side in the world in 2 years

Unbelieveable scenes at franklins garden's.

Jamie Heaslip will only be 29 come the series so i think he'll start and would be my skipper.

1.Cian Healy
2.Dylan Hartley
3.Dan Cole
4.Richie Grey
5.Bradley Davies
6.Tom Wood
7.Sam Warburton
8.Jamie Heaslip

9.Ben Youngs
10.Johnny Sexton
11.George North
12.Jamie Roberts
13.Darren Cave/Kieth Earls
14.Chris Ashton
15.Ben Foden

16.Ross ford
17.Alex Corbisero
18.Courtney Lawes
19.Sean O'Brian
20.Lloyd Williams
21.Rhys Priestland
22.Manu Tuilagi

Halfpenny/Sharples/Trinder/Lydiate/Murrey/Farrell unlucky not to be involved in the matchday 22.

Ferris will only be 28 lydiate is another option.lawes a must

Great game at Northampton. Scarlets superb, Preistland MoM and fully deserved. Saints missed Foden and Roberts and Lamb had a nightmare last 20. Saints dominated scrum but not much else.

Edinburgh 49 - 47 Racing Metro

What a game

feel for shingler. no malice at all just unlucky. hope he doesnt get banned, no need for one.
to lose by only 6 at cardiff with 14 men for 60 mins is decent.
ion destroyed jenkins in the scrum.

The question is...even though he didn't deserve on, what band will he get?

Didnt get to watch any of the rugby last night and just picking up the scores. Cant believe Saints lost at home? From sounds of it they had some very bad decisions go against them, but were rubbish at the same time and made lots of mistakes.

Not having a top quality fly half always costs them.

Saints pack let them down last night Chris. That and lack of basic skills they spilled so much ball. Clark had a stinker as pisi ashton Dickson Downey and many others did. Lamb was poor when Roberts came on also.

Always said saints lack it at top. Don't have any proven big game players. Look at Toulouse, Leinster etc they have certain wc players who step up and get them out of tricky situations. Good example was Munster and o'gara last week

How far has Paul hodgson slipped down Irish pecking order. Can't believe they played sansom instead of him. Is he playing that bad??

Matt

You have to put Lamb in with the poor players. He was awful throughout along with every other back and most forwards. Downey looked good on crash ball but limited hands let him down throughout.

Saints scrum was good, Roberts was dire when he came on as he was v Sale earlier this season. Hats off to scarlets though, their 9 was good all day. very lively and fiesty, then the replacement 9 went half the pitch after stepping 4 players. Priestland was sensational and Jon Davies was great apart from one or two mistakes.

I did put lamb in with the poor players. Trouble with saints is they have one way to play and no plan b. personally I would not want mallinder as coach as he has not demonstrated success at top level for me

I missed that sentence my apologies. Great game for the neutral!

Welsh rugby on the up at moment. Still think scarlets are a poor
Outfit up front.

Dragons beating Perpignan the other day was a shock although perp did not have best side out

Dragons v Exeter will be games worth watching in that pool

Just watched some of it - cant believe no one reacted with Ashton;s knock on! All the Saints team stopped. That's worst Saints perfromance I've seen since their return to the AP.

I didnt think Scarlets played well at all either, just that Saints were so bad that it got Scarlets the win. Priestland is looking very good.

I don't get why Saints persist with Roberts at no9 when they've got Stuart Commins around, far better player and has the quickest pass of all the no9s at Saints. They also have Alex Day coming through and he's better than Roberts too!

I think that Saints do have some big game players, but the issue they have is that they dont have a top class player in the midfield - would say that most AP teams have got better decision makers than Saints in that key position - e.g. Wasps have got Robinson & Flutey - both would walk into the Saints team there.

Really amazed that Saints lost that though - just didnt turn up! Havent seen them like that ebfore.

Guess Sarries look like the best English bet now :-(

Some crazy results this weekend. See Treviso held Ospreys to draw

Should have won pooly from sounds of it - last minute penality to tie the game for the Ospreys wasnt it?

With all the players leaving the Ospreys in the summer have they now slipped behind the other Welsh regions? I had a look at their pack and theyve lost a lot of their better players.

Anyone watching the Quins game? Is Hooper playing in the centres? I signed him from Cornish Pirates in the summer and havent seen him play at this level yet, is he any good?

Not seen any rugby this weekend Chris, I'll d/l and watch during week. See Hopper was playing as Lowe was injured.

Hooper has bagged a try

just started watching thequins game, they get away with so much infringement. Gloucester have got some talented youngsters in the backline. May looks brilliant.

If you had Quins forwards with Gloucesters backline you'd have some team!

Very surprised Quins are winning at Kingholm (21-9), playing some cracking stuff this season but thought this would be a game too far.

All teams get away with little bits Chris. I always admire a team who push the boundaries as it shows they know how to play the ref rather than be clean as a whistle every game

"Pooly - I didnt mention Youngs as pretty sure I read that he's out for 6months - 6Nations in Feb. So doesnt look as though he will be available."

"Pooly - Tigers don't ever really let people know what's happening with injuries, I think it was Crane last year who got an absolute b ollocking for when he tweeted he got injured. THere was an interview, which I think has now been taken offline from TIgers site with Cockerill saying that Youngs had come back worse than before last injury and was out for many, many months."

Chris, not sure where you get your info from, Youngs came on as sub today. If its the same fella who told you Clark had the most turnovers in the prem last season I'd stop listening to him as he talks out of his hoop.

Not watched anything as played scored and won by 50 but not surprised by glos losing.

We have so many young players that we will sometimes implode and go wrong. Also no depth.

May is special and for me most gifted young player in England.

No idea how we went but burns is a front foot player and when it goes wrong for him it goes massively wrong

How bad was Parling injury????

Barcella playing well 20 minutes in Biarritz game hari also exceptional

Biarritz vs saracens a proper game

How good was harinordoquoy. As Fitzpatrick said best 8 in the world. Basically plays 8 for Biarritz with 7 on his back and alternates with lakafia at
Being 8 at back of scrum.

Hari does all the 8 reading of game and rules lineout and lakafia all the flanker work. Begs question why do they not play lakafia at flank and hari 8???

Lakafia some prospect but raw as hell and needs a ton of work. Not international class yet but I think has a huge future. Think him and the new Whitelock at 8 in canterbury squad this year best 8 prospects going. 3-5 whitelocks in Canterbury
squad this year.

Ngwenya top try. He is gash defensively but in open field wow!!! How are Biarritz bottom of top 14?

Sarries still not out and have that spirit that glaws would love

For you chaps who watch the Rabo what do you think of donnacha ryan???

Munster have dropped Doc for him last few games and doc is a Munster favourite so I am assuming Ryan is quite tidy

Sam Tomkins has been called up for the Baa-Baas!! First RL player to do this.

Pete/Nic
You guys heard anything about Michael classens joining Irish?

Anyone about for some deals? I'm looking to strengthen my back row and back three.

Leinster looking ominous

Glasgow not playing well. Gray isn't doing badly in defence. Cusiter struggling a little after his knock.

O'Malley looks handy. Never seen a yellow card work against the side with numerical advantage quite as much as it did there. Weir is really struggling.

Heaslip playing well, he's looked off boil lately but looking good. SOB is such a class act too, hardly ever disappoints

Didn't see the game last week but apparently SOB and Heaslip couldn't get into the game at all. Considering the were both poor all world cup this could be important for them.

No they didn't play well last week Steve. I thought SOB had a great world cup bar Wales game, was fantastic v Aus.

Leicester/Ulster game was a good watch, real battle throughout.

saw first half and last 10. Humphries really belted the first pen! had 10 m and was from inside his own half.

Healy comes on and gets mullered. He needs to improve his scrummaging so much. There is nothing special with this Glasgow scrum at all.

He could be cold still, I'll give him benifit. Cusiter looking busy, I'm a big fan when on form.

Humphries is so infuriating, is so talented and looks magic at times then misses easy touches/convs and game has past him by. Possibly the most gifted FH in the NH but has just never done it for prolonged period.

Great pass Donald, TD looking a little rough so far.

Donald shifts for a chubby lad!

I think Steve wonder could throw in better than creevy. 22 minutes gone and he has missed his man 4 times