Northampton Saints

Northampton Saints

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Coaching Staff:

Team Manager: Sir Johnny English

Assistant: Jim Mallinder

Forwards Coach: Gert Smal
Scrum Coach: Greg Rowntree
Lineout Coach: Victor Matfield

Backs Coach: Joe Schmidt
Kicking Coach: Neil Jenkins
Defence Coach: Dave Ellis

Academy Manager: Dave Rennie
Chief Scout: Dusty Hare

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Senior Squad :

Forwards:

Soane Tonga'uiha (LH) Tonga
Alex Waller (LH) England
Steven Kitshoff (LH) South Africa

Dylan Hartley (HK) England
Richardt Strauss (HK) Ireland
Mike Haywood (HK) England

Brian Mujati (TH) South Africa
Paul Doran-Jones (LH/TH) England

James Craig (LK/BS) England
Christian Day (LK) England
Courtney Lawes (LK/BS) England
Andries Bekker (LK) South Africa
Brodie Retalick (LK) New Zealand
Samu Manoa (LK/BS) USA
Mark Sorenson (LK) New Zealand

Stephen Ferris (BS/N8) Ireland
Stephen Luatua (LK/BS) New Zealand 
Tom Wood (BS/OS) England
Phil Dowson (BS/N8) England
Calum Clark (LK/BS/OS) England

Kieran Read (BS/N8) New Zealand
Roger Wilson (N8) Ireland

Backs:

Aaron Smith (SH) New Zealand
Lee Dickson (SH) England
Martin Roberts (SH) Wales
Ryan Glynn (SH) England 27/9/91

Johnny Sexton (FH) Ireland
Ryan Lamb (SH/FH) England
Stephen Myler (FH) England

Jan Serfontein (IC/OC) South Africa
Sonny Bill Williams (IC/OC) New Zealand
James Downey (IC) Ireland

George Pisi (IC/OC/FB) Samoa
Gael Fickou (IC/OC) France

Scott Armstrong (WG) England
JP Pieterson (WG) South Africa
Vasily Artemiev (WG) Russia
Chris Ashton (WG) England
Jamie Elliot (OC/WG) England 31/8/92

Ben Foden (FB) England
Greig Tonks (FH/FB) England

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Academy Squad :

Tom Stephenson (IC/OC/WG) England 5/5/94
Teimana Harrison (BS/OS/N8) England
James Palmer (LH/TH) England 20/8/93
Ethan Waller (LH) England 13/9/92
Anders Mogensen (WG) England 4/1/91
Danny Herriot (TH) England 23/2/93
Tom Hicks (LK) England 25/10/91
Alex Woolford (LK) England 8/12/92
Alex Day (SH) England 11/4/93
Charlie Sadler (FB) England 6/9/91
Glynn Hughes (FH/FB) England 17/11/91
Tom Collins (OC/FB) England 3/7/94

Hello mate, am interested in...

Alex Waller
Ethan Waller
Tom Mercey
Mike Heyward
Vasili Artemiev
Ben Nutley
Jamie Elliot

Let me know what you want for them. (Exeter Chiefs)

Interested in:

Hartley
A Waller
Lawes
C Clark
Ashton
Haywood
Elliot

Anything for Mujati?

Think your at 41 Johnny.

Will allow you to move one of your underage into your academy

Done! Cheers Pooly

Skivington for Clark?

I'd have thought you'd start Skivs ahead of Day?!? No probs.

Matt Smith?

Be interested in Tonga too

Which Tulagi? If Manu nfs.

Could do Allen for Clark + Elliot?

Would need a pretty big offer mate.

Would need one of Hartley , Lawes , Ashton , Foden involved

Allen back in next couple of weeks.

Tuilagi def not for sale, I only want Clark lol. Hes not even Saxons level!

Looks like we're miles apart

Steffon not for sale mate, sorry. What you after for Artemiev?

what for pisi, manoa, dowson?

Daly, tuilagi, poff, filipo
For
Pisi, Elliot, dowson, manoa

Loose enquiry we can change things around if we need

Anything for Manoa, Pisi and Dickson?

what for manoa and pisi?

also anything for mujati or pdj??

Elliott available?

ok what players are you interested in for manoa + mercey deal?

£22m
=
Mercey + May + Artemiev/Diggin + Season loanee?

£23m

Artemiev availible?

Deal

What for Wood?

Myler + Clarke
=
Gopperth + £5m

It would have to be a lot mate, spent a lot of time deciding on Steyn, cover at 10 12 13 15 and i'm not a big Downey fan. Tonghu'ia or Hartley would be my targets

No its not depth mate, don't want to lose quality for quantity. Steyn will start most games, day sorenson myler wouldn't be near the first team, sorry.

I'm not one to over rate youngsters but the U20 world player of the year might need more than 3m lol

Hard to rate potential mate, what he's worth is not really worth my while trading him in for.

Not really a fan of tonks. I'd be weakening my back 3 overall with Artimiev being slightly better than Brady but Brady being english means there's nothing between them in terms of value and Miller being a lot better than Tonks.

But i can possibly see some sort of deal being worked out.

Brady, Miller, MacLeod and 10 mill
for
Artimiev, Myler, Wilson and Elliot

Anychance of getting Wilson or Myler/Lamb for ££.
What price would you be looking at if avaliable?

No thanks mate, don't see that as much of a gain really. Wouldn't start him, not eq qualified and want to keep eastmond.

Wood/Clark?

Mooj, PDJ, Day interest me!

Haywood + Day
for
Shervington + Gulliver

Anything for:

Haywood, Waller, Tonga, Lawes, Hartley, Wood, Clark, Ashton, Foden?

what for Clark mate?

Might struggle with Ford as its hard to value him.

36 could possibly go for something with Hartley, Ashton, Foden?

What kinda thing you thinking

Arr + Day 4 Gulliver + Commins maybe

After a gruelling first AP game your squad has picked up the following injuries:

Week highlighted is the week they become available.

Week 7 - Kieran Read
Week 8 - Courtney Lawes
Week 9 - Mike Haywood
Week 10 - George Pisi
Week 11 - Soane Tonga'uiha

Fasa + Gulliver 4 Day + ?????

Woah. Long way apart

Not really sure tbh, don't think the gap is as big as you suggest

Lawes, Samu and arguably Sorensen are ahead of Day

What for Jamie Elliot mate?

I don't really want to lose either of them to be honest mate , both have massive futures ahead of them. But hit me with something else if you can see it.


Must have took a day off work to be on here this much lol! Or you just skipping planning your wedding with out the misses knowing lol!

Johnny I am gonna have a look at my team and how this works so bare with me, I will get back to you soon.

Can you post my team for the next round mate, I'm not going to be around, cheers. I'm not sure if I'll need any changes with Ints etc but I trust your judgement lol.

Could you also keep an eye on the league for me, I should be back a week Friday. Might ge

Leicester Tigers
Manager – Sgt_Pooly

01. Marco Ayerza	09. Sam Harrison
02. Rob Hawkins	10. Toby Flood
03. Julian White
04. Lewis Deacon(c)	11. Horacio Agulla
05. Geoff Parling	12. Berrick Barnes
06. Craig Newby	13. Manu Tuilagi
07. Luke Wallace	14. James O’Connor
08. Thomas Waldroum	15. Geordan Murphy

16. Tom Youngs 17. Ryan Bower 18. Kieran Brookes 19. Ed Slater 20. Sam Jones 21. James Grindal 22. Billy Twelvetrees 23. Elliott Daley

Tactics

In the good conditions we'll be looking to play at a high tempo and intensity from the off and move the opposition around the park.

We will look to set a tone in the set piece with our big scrummaging front 5 and will look for the squeeze from the off. Parling will lead the line and we will look to target the opposition's throw with Newby/Parling marshalling the front/middle of the line. We'll use big carries from our pack to draw in the opposition defence with Harrison marshalling and looking for gaps to exploit around the fringes.

Wallace 7 Newby will target the breakdown with Harrison sniping around and playing flat to the line to allow Barnes & Manu space to run into. JOC will come looking for the ball in midfield and link up with Manu causing problems in the opposition midfield. We'll look to refresh pack around 60mins + and keep up the intensity.

Barnes will act as second playmaker and look to bring our backs into play and exploit Manu’s physicalty with mismatches and also as a decoy to draw the opposition defense.

Tonga, Ashton, Foden?