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Leicester Tigers	Pooly
London Irish	Pull
London Wasps	Nick
Newcastle Falcons	Flux
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where can i find the cup tables?

Yeah lost in the post Pooly...

Posted on the cup page Bathite...

"4. Top 4 seeds advance to the semi's i.e. Group winners and the best placed runners up... where it will be Seed 1 v Seed 4 and Seed 2 v Seed 3."

It's official, Big Dean up North;

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-union/17346781

SirJohnnyEnglish wrote:Yeah lost in the post Pooly... :whistle:

Posted on the cup page Bathite...

"4. Top 4 seeds advance to the semi's i.e. Group winners and the best placed runners up... where it will be Seed 1 v Seed 4 and Seed 2 v Seed 3."

Ok, still can't see that on the cup page, but I think we are talking about the same thing. 3 group winners + 1 best placed second = 4 semifinalists

Sorry SJE, found it, thought it would be in the OP.

Congrats on your wedding by the way, best of luck and all that

Looking for a loosehead, a lock of both varieties and maybe a scrum half

Fluxy wrote:It's official, Big Dean up North;

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-union/17346781

Great news, really chuffed

Seriously slow dull day at work, was hoping for some distractions on here, but all gone quiet!

Shall we start some top tens?

That was something I forgot to mention.

Pull what is "Prawl-ing"?

pullthestrings wrote:- Simpson to prawl behind the defense line...

Something you do in your spare time perhaps?

Yeah, let's start from 15 though, touched on props earlier

Dagg
Kearney
Foden
Halfpenny
Beale
Medard
Nacewa
Toeava
Lambie
Williams

I'd rate JOC and AAC above most of them at 15

1. Beale
2. Dagg
3. AAC
4. Kearney
5. Jane
6. Foden
7. Nacewa
8. Halfpenny
9. Ben Smith
10. Toeava

I'd have JOC in top 3/4 but more a centre/winger/10 these days

Knew I had forgotten a few, AAC was a glaringly obvious one, but consider him a 13 tbh, JOC a 10/12 and Jane a winger.

I like ben smith a lot, but wouldn't have him top 10, hasn't played enough int rugby, but i guess you could say that about Nacewa, but HC is definately a harsher test for a full back than super rugby

1 Beale
2 Dagg
3 Foden
4 Halfpenny
5 Kearney
6 AAC
7 Jane
8 Nacewa
9 Toeava
10 Armitage

Beale
Dagg
AAC
Foden
Kearney
Halfpenny
AAC
JOC
Poitrinaud
Nacewa

Interesting that so many of you have Beale #1 and yet he remains available! I thought about going for him, but have slight reservations about his defence and he can't play wing. Goalkicking is a huge plus though.

Dagg would be my number one. What is surprising is how Muliaina has dropped out completely of peoples favouring IMO. This time last year he was the starting FB for the All Blacks

I'd have him on there if still playing S15, but unlike Fourie, he is never coming back, so can't rate him

But why could you not say the same for Thorn for example?

Who said I wouldn't?

Thorn a touch longer because of his Leinster sabbatical, but otherwise I'd have him in the same group as Mils. Plenty of locks putting their hands up in 6Ns and some promising youngsters in S15 as well

Available for cash:

BR Craig Newby (New Zealand) - 8m
CE Matt Smith (England) - 12m
FH Jeremy Staunton (Ireland) - 5m
FB Matthew Tait (England) - 12m
CE Andrew Forsyth (England) - 5m

Are there outside bids on this game? I'm guessing not, which is obviously fine.

Top wingers?? Was harder then I thought, a lot of the big names not in top form, injured or not playing int rugby anymore. NZ only picked 1 out and out winger for the RWC!

JOC
Iaone
Bowe
Clerc
Jane
Guildford
North
Gear
Ashton
Mitchell

Agree with that list but would also put Tagicakibau in there.
Might be my London Irish bias, but when fit and on form he is unplayable sometimes.
starting to hit top form for us now, has scored 3 in his last 3.

I'd replace Ashton with Tagi myself, I don't think Clerc is that great either tbh. Pretty good list though

Maybe Clerc is a touch high in that list, but very consistent, great stats and great finisher

you cant fault Clercs try scoring record!

England team to face France
15 Ben Foden (Northampton Saints)
14 Chris Ashton (Northampton Saints)
13 Manusamoa Tuilagi (Leicester Tigers)
12 Brad Barritt (Saracens)
11 David Strettle (Saracens)
10 Owen Farrell (Saracens)
9 Lee Dickson (Northampton Saints)
1 Alex Corbisiero (London Irish)
2 Dylan Hartley (Northampton Saints)
3 Dan Cole (Leicester Tigers)
4 Mouritz Botha (Saracens)
5 Geoff Parling (Leicester Tigers)
6 Tom Croft (Leicester Tigers)
7 Chris Robshaw (Harlequins, capt)
8 Ben Morgan (Scarlets)

Replacements
16 Lee Mears (Bath Rugby)
17 Matt Stevens (Saracens)
18 Tom Palmer (Stade Francais)
19 Phil Dowson (Northampton Saints)
20 Ben Youngs (Leicester Tigers)
21 Charlie Hodgson (Saracens)
22 Mike Brown (Harlequins)

Why fix what ain't broke. Good to see Lancaster has faith, and I'm glad he didn't make a load of chnages during the game against France. If they're playing well why change it?

Anyone seen the French team, some very interesting selections in there.

France: C Poitrenaud (Toulouse); W Fofana (Clermont Auvergne), A Rougerie (Clermont Auvergne), F Fritz (Toulouse), A Palisson (Toulon); L Beauxis (Stade Francais), D Yachvili (Biarritz); J-B Poux (Toulouse), W Servat (Toulouse), D Attoub (Stade Francais), P Pape (Stade Francais), Y Maestri (Toulouse), T Dusautoir (Toulouse, capt), J Bonnaire (Clermont Auvergne), I Harinordoquy (Biarritz)

Replacements: D Szarzewski (Stade Francais), V Debaty (Clermont Auvergne), J Pierre (Clermont Auvergne), L Picamoles (Toulouse), M Parra (Clermont), F Trinh-Duc (Montpellier), J-M Buttin (Clermont Auvergne)


Fofana on the wing could be a masterpiece

Attoub and Beauxis, it feels like PStA is taking some backward steps.

I was waiting for Szarzewski to be dropped, his scrummaging is awful. Fofana is a little wasted on the wing, didnt look too great for ASM there. Odd calls

What a waste of Fofana, his running angles at 12 have been so good. Surely it would have been better to keep him and Rougerie partnership and got a winger straight in?

I'd of dropped Rougerie onto the wing and looked to bring Mermoz in at centre

Very odd call, and why Fritz over Mermoz???

Kind of glad to see Sharples moved aside, he was disappointing against France and Trimble/Bowe would highlight his defensive problems. Needs to go back and work a little I think.

Looking forward to seeing Tuilagi run at Earls........

What other french options are there on the wing other than Heymans?

Clerc injured
Medard injured
Palisson picked
Fofana picked
Heymans?
Malzieu dropped
Traille to 15, Poit to wing?

Anybody watch the Chiefs this morning?

Got my eye on a few of the boys doing well in that team, some very good youngsters.

Haven't had a chance to catch any S15 yet. Chiefs and Blues were my shouts for dark horses though from the start. Which players have impressed you then mate?

That'd be telling

I'm not that keen on taking anymore S15 players to be honest with the 4Ns coming up. Need a balance of NH/SH.

so far I've gone for all NH so far.

Prop Lyd won't be on this weekend this goes for Petes game aswell

Do we lose players for the 4 nations?

Think we lose players for every international game mate

We do

Full backs
1 JOC
2 Beale
3 Dagg
4 AAC
5 Halfpenny
6 Kearney
7 Foden
8 Toeava
9 Medard
10 Poitenaud
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Wingers

1 JOC
2 Ioane
3 Mitchell
4 North
5 Jane
6 Bowe
7 Clerc
8 Medard
9 Guildford
10 Ashton

You like JOC then ITFL......

Bowe & North the form wingers in world rugby at the minute. Can't wait for the 4N!

Really hope Argentina show their worth, great for world rugby

Anyone got a link for U20s?