Fantasy Aviva Premiership Season 4 Homepage

First topic message reminder :

Fantasy Aviva Premiership Current League Table

---

---

Teams

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	Ozzy3213
Worcester Warriors	prop_lyd

---

Links
Rules
Fixtures
Aviva Premiership League Table
European Homepage
LV Cup homepage
Budgets
Domestic Confirmations
Transfer Homepage
Foreign Transfers
Press Releases
National League Players

---

Waiting List
1. pullthestrings
2. Bathite

Ah we all know that it goes on, just was fascinating to hear some facts from someone involved. Also knowing that it definitely does happen makes me laugh even more about Tigers bleating about being hindered by the salary cap.

When we had money we uses to enploy players wives etc on crazy salaries to get around it. Also gave players non executive directorships of local businesses. Lots of cash fur zero hours

Saints sign Burrell from Sale. He any good Steve?

Burrells a big old unit, but wouldnt have him in say Downey's class - sure he played league for quite some time too, hard to put down, good defender.

Still think Saints need a top class centre, a replacement for Ashton and a few additions to their backrow.

He might be, wouldn't know as he hasn't played many games at all.

Can't blame him for leaving at all. He is a big lad though and came with high hopes.

8 Weeks for Hartley

Saints wont be happy with that ban - heard from quite a few people that the incident was effectively that Ferris put his fingers in Hartley's mouth, an Irish player ran into Hartley and jolted his head and cause him to 'bite' Ferris.

Saints were expecting a 2-4 week ban tops, and very unhappy with the decision.

This may start a bit of an attack on me but.......Hartley banned yet back in time for tour........

Minimum ban for biting is 12 weeks. Quite embarrassing

There was mitigating circumstances lll. By all accounts he was very unlucky. With his previous record to get 4 weeks off must involve lots of mitigation

hartley said he didnt bite him at all, no intention of doing it - just that ferris put his fingers in his mouth and someone ran into Hartley's head causing teeth to clench - might not sound believable when you say it like that, but they are adament he didnt do anything wrong and are miffed as expected a 3-4 week ban maximum.

Simple solution - dont put your fingers in someone's mouth - remember the Grewcock incident quite a few years back, when he got fish hooked and then bite - he got a ban and the guy who fish hooked him got nothing!

Matt

Have you seen Gloucester are in talks with Leigh Halfpenny? Huge signing that one

Odd signing if that happened

I'm a bit confused as to where he would fit in?

9.Cowen
10.Burns/Mills
11.Sharples
12.Twelvetrees
13.Trinder
14.May
15.Halfpenny

Think Morgan is vastly overrated myself

if they are in talks to sign Halfpenny then a few of the youngsters must surely be on the way out? well you'd think so anyhow.

I think Morgan could be off and JSD is getting on a bit

Voyce is gone as well and he was lifting £250,000 a year

Jsd first name on team sheet and just 30. Pointless signing we need forwards.amaZed If that happens.waste of money. We need players who can play during internationals and have fb cover.

Morgan may be finished his recovery not going well

similar thing with irish, apparently in talks with luke fitzgerald. where does he fit in?! be pointless signing when we desperately need a 10 and some forwards.

Nick we have the same frustrations as both are fans of teams with great backs and a few good forwards.

Morgan at 8 will be great with Savage and Qera we will have great options and we have some great young players coming through.

TH cover after Harden is non existent same as LH and Hooker and Second row we have Hamilton and nothing else.

Its not rocket science yet seems to be beyond brush. Heard that he may be off. Big bust up with the players. They will either back him and bomb out players or get rid.

personally i would sack the forwards coach and get someone who can see what is bleeding obvious

our first choice pack next season will be ok
Corbs, Paice, ???, Garvey, Skivington, Evans/Gibson, Treviranus, Hala'ufia

Lahiff, Danaher, Grey and Lawson arent bad replacements either. But after that you have the likes of Sinclair, Ion, Dermody, Roche, Thorpe who simply arent good enough.

We still need a top class backrower, like you have got with Morgan, to compete with the top 4.

Apparently Smith is a big fan of Alex Grey whereas Booth was not so should see a lot more of him rest of this season and next.

Guys, what do you think about doing end of season awards? I'm happy to run them was thinking:
Best Manager:
Most Improved Manager:
Best Team:
Most Improved Team:
Best Foregin Signing:
Best EQ Signing:

What do you think?

sounds good to me Prop.

Tagicakibau beat 10 defenders on Sunday v Tigers. more than there whole team put together. so hope he stays fit for whole of next season.

Losi is a key man for us. We need him fit and firing for the whole season, he's not been at full fitness since 2009 but looks as close to it now as you can be at this stage of the season.

If he stays fit next year then we could have a good season.

If I was Brian Smith I would blow every last penny of the remaining budget on a top, top tighthead.

Good news that Treviranus has signed on for two more years.

We need a 10 as much as anything. Shingler or Jarvis arent good enough for me.

Reckon there is a few more signings to come. A tighthead, a backrower, potentially a 12 if all this talk of Hape leaving is true.

Delon hasnt made up his mind either yet so he could end up staying which would be good.

I think with the right 9 and 12 either side of him Shingler would do a good job for us at 10.

Trev is a massive signing really, as we were so lacking in ball carriers in the pack for most of the season and that was a massive issue for us. Reports on Aulika are pretty good, so hopefully he will be better than Faan, Ion and Halavatau. If we had a decent tighthead we would have beaten Tigers on Sunday, as their key scores came as a result of scrums.

Where is Hape potentially off to? Japan?

no idea mate loads of rumours on the craic.

the stephen jones rumours are quite strong, would prefer him to shingler and he can also mentor shingler. shingler can then cover 10 and 12.

the scrum will be helped next season by having skiv in the engine room over kennedy.

really dont understand the logic in re-signing sinclair and signing tom smith. only one or the other needed.

Interestingly Smith has captained Ospreys a lot this season and started most games at 6. can't say I know a lot about him at all. but seems a much better option than sinclair, thorpe and roche.

Thorpe and Roche both definitely need to be shown the door, but Booth loves Roche for some reason.

Now Smith has the reigns I firmly hope neither will play for the first team again!

Have Irish replaced Booth with Smith?

Smith is back as DOR and Booth is head coach.

Ahh right. Was Booth doing both jobs?

Yeah, Booth was in charge of everything.

He is a very good coach, but I am not sure that his man management was great and tactically he was a little bit lost at times.

I think with Smith back we will see much better rugby from the team next season. There were already signs of it on Sunday.

Sunday was the best we have played in months. since the racing metro away game.

Guys I'm off to Thailand next Wednesday for 2 1/2 weeks.

Pete I will pm you my teams for the two games I will miss, and there will be 3 weeks worth of predos I will have to miss. Apologies in advance.

No worries bud, cheers for letting us know.

You looking to pick up a bride (ladyboy) out there?!

My Mrs wouldn't be delighted. Worth asking though...

Got a mix things up a little Luke

Have a good time mate

YOungs and Fasivulu cited for incidents at the weekend.

What are the rules with citings, as in real life you are not allowed to play if you've been cited before the hearing - what has the rule been here, I didnt pick Clark at all in my squad because of that?

Tigers obviously expecting a ban for Youngs

http://www.premiershiprugby.com/premiership/news/30219.php

That rule about not playing before your hearing is a 6 Nations one. AP citings players are free to play until their hearing unless banned by their club.

Ah, so I could have played Hartley last week!

If we didn't play players when they'd been cited some of us would struggle to put out teams some weeks!

Innocent till proven guilty and all that....

i think i would have 15 players tops most weeks!

Fasivalu must be cited for the yellow card he got for tackle with no arms a la tuilagi and every other islander favourite. He was unlucky as he hit him so hard the bloke rocketed down before he could wrap his arms.

Luckily most my players fit in real life only wood missing and he has only been out 2 weeks so far so should last the run In form wise.

Pooly any news on juan smith he was meant to be back when coonie was. Gone quiet on Sa sites

Anyone watch the Brumbies on Saturday?? Michael Hooper had a storming game! Here is the Planet Rugby view from team of the week

7 Michael Hooper (Brumbies): The 20-year-old thrust his name right into the Wallabies mix as he popped up everywhere at Canberra Stadium while making a match-high 26 tackles, forcing several turnovers, scoring the final try and having a hand in another to help lift the Brumbies atop the Australian conference with a win over the Highlanders.

He's apparently due back round 7 but won't hold my breath. Burger is out for around two months I think.

People rate differently I guess, takes 6mnths + before a top player starts to lose a bit for me.