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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Waiting List
1. Sam
2. pullthestrings
3. Bathite

Aus side for weekend:

Adam Ashley-Cooper, Lachie Turner, Rob Horne, Berrick Barnes, Digby Ioane, James O'Connor, Will Genia; James Slipper, Tatafu Polota Nau, Salesi Ma'afu, Rob Simmons, Nathan Sharpe, Scott Higginbotham, David Pocock, Ben McCalman

Replacements: Stephen Moore, Ben Alexander, James Horwill, Dave Dennis, Matt Hodgson, Nick Phipps, Ben Tapuai

JOC at 10

Who's Dave Dennis?

sounds like a caretaker

Isnt he a flanker at the Waratahs?

Should be ahigh scoring game, two 10s who will only attack!

whoever he is I'm surprised he's ahead of Beau Robinson

Hasnt he got a slight knock? They usually try a few new players on these games/tours

Lawsons contract expires this year and their are rumours of Irish sniffing around.

does it say who we are after?

Matt when you getting a team in?

Australia:
Adam Ashley-Cooper, Lachie Turner, Rob Horne, Berrick Barnes, Digby Ioane, James O'Connor, Will Genia; James Slipper, Tatafu Polota Nau, Salesi Ma'afu, Rob Simmons, Nathan Sharpe, Scott Higginbotham, David Pocock (c), Ben McCalman

Replacements: Stephen Moore, Ben Alexander, James Horwill, Dave Dennis, Matt Hodgson, Nick Phipps, Ben Tapuai

Too slow Luke

Hi Luke

thought i had submitted it yesterday. had it open and just had not pressed send. i have about a million applications open on my computer.

Lol no probs mate

Should be a contrast of styles.

Chiefs have a few bigger players availible

Salvator Perugini
Efion Lewis Roberts
Shane Jennings
George Pisi

worst possible news pete.
bowden injured in training, Jarvis starts!!
could swing the game in wasps favour.

Ah ffs, I was confident until you've said that.

Who comes onto the bench?

Ah that's a shame about Bowden lads...Robinson has been excellent for us recently - not sure we've got enough in our backups ATM it's Poff who is carrying it for us really. Need launchbury back from injury, he caused teams problems at blindside

Be surprised to see Attwood take to rugby field any time soon, looks really nasty.

Just watching that Pooly, not a good night for Attwood or for Bath. Worcester 13-0 up with 12 minutes to play.

See that the Chiefs have just got a 79th minute try to go 30-23 up against Sale.

Jayzus, didn't realise that Sale were 20-0 up with 18 minutes gone. How de feic did they lose that one.

Try for Bath, going to be a fierce last 8 minutes in this one.

Bath set piece a shambles. Mullen looked tidy till he went off, Goode will see this one out

Drop goal from Goode.

Mullan looking decent this season so far, needs to stay injury free, as I do think the England loosehead shirt is up for grabs. Corbs, Marler, Mullan could all put their hand up for it, all need a run of big performances to edge themselves in front.

At the moment I'd have it as Corbs, Marler, Mullan.

Great break Garvey, good to see little Jonny Arr playing well

Corbs seems set I think. Stevens, Mullen behind. Marler not quite ready

Stevens showed in the World Cup that he's not a top class test loosehead for me. Good player, and excellent to have on the bench as covers both sides adequately, but for me not a test starter.

I'd agree with that, seems to buckle against a good scummager

Agree with you about Stevens Pete, think he needs to be on the bench as otherwise I think our oldest front rower is Hartley at 24! Is Cole still 23? And Corbs must be 22 at most?

Have you released Willie Mason Chris? I see that Toulon are releasing him as he's not lived up to the hype apparently.

Not yet Pete, waiting to see what happens - apparently he isnt settling in south of france at all - dont think its anything to do with rugby and not sure how much he has hooked up with his team mates just yet. Parents live near Toulon for 6 months a year, so get all the gossip from them. Whoever knew you could make so much money from comics!

Apparently a Dubai based company wants to buy Wasps...interesting!

Guys keep an eye on Elliot in the Saints game, think its his first start of the AP today - looks very good.

Just going through teams/tactics now.

Benjamin's try was a cracker last night, somehow missed it despite watching most of game?!?!

How did Garvey do last night guys? Was it wet conditions? Just wondering as I saw he was placed as a weakness in my selection.

Who owns kvesic ? What a day of rugby.currently watching worcester beat Bath. Going to glos vs Leicester then watch sarries saints and then home and if still standing watch re run of ba bas

Garvey played well, Kvesic played well at 8. Donald had a stinker, tried to force it too much. Bath were pretty dire 1-15

You would not want to be 9 or 10 for bath with that set
Piece. No go forward ball at all

I would have nick wood in the mix for england been outstanding for 18 months and the best scrummager out of Marler, mullan( good player and could well be the answer and corbs

He has had the better of every prop he has come up against this year

Total shambles scrum and lineout, Worcester game plan was great.

Think you spoke to soon about Wood Matt, Castro giving him a right old game!

Bad decision from TMO, surely a try for Flood?!?!

Anyone watching Ba's game? Tomkins can't wait to get rid of that ball in the ruck!

Yeah shouldnt have started this game at all. Hansen was going through how to present the ball in the ruck just before kick off!! Cips was constantly telling him where to go on defence. He has cracking support lines though

"Cips was constantly telling him where to go on defence."

That's like Rick Waller giving healthy eating advice!

Is there a harder running winger in world rugby than Ioane?

I know mate it was quite funny to watch!

Yeah the man is a beast. Done very well today. I'd say tour a happy man AAC is going very good today!

Not hard though against this defence!!

AAC certainly gives them something different from 15, a hard running line breaker which they sometimes lack.

Good game, Aus should be well up but for a few forward passes. JOC very raw but brings so much to 10, such a talent.

Trust it to be Tomkins to score the only Baabaas try!
Some cracking attacking play from the aussies but the Baabaas really did look like a team put together from scratch on defence

What was Cips doing for that Horne try?!?!?! A blind offload 2m out from your own try line, guys a liability sometimes.

Higginbottom playing really well, interesting Barnes thinks he should be ahead of Elsom.

big win for irish today
scrappy game

Saints awesome. Interestingly sarries winning
Scrum battle with smit excellent and nieto peerless as usual.

Come 60 minutes scrum may change. Saints have a very fit front row and often get on top later.