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NEWCASTLE FALCONS

WELCOME TO THE CHAMPIONS

AVIVA PREMIERSHIP CHAMPIONS 2011, 2012

HEINEKEN CUP WINNERS 2010


Main site: https://www.606v2.com/f41-fantasy-aviva-premiership-season-4


Current Budget: 5.5m

Head Coach:PoolyPunk
Assistant Coach: John Bentley
Director of rugby: Declan Kidney
Forwards Coach: Fran Cotton
Backs Coach's: Johnathan Edwards
Attacking Coach: Jason Robinson
Kicking Coach: Neil Jenkins
Defense Coach: Mike Ford
Conditioning Coach:Craig White
Newcastle A Coach: Tony Underwood

Retired(Not released): Richard Blaze, William Servat

FORWARDS: 23

HK Rory Best (Ireland)
HK Lee Mears (England) - Available Dec 17th
HK Agustín Creevy (Argentina)

TH Paul Doran-Jones (England)
TH Owen Franks (New Zealand)
TH Clement Ric (France)

LH Fabien Barcella (France)
LH Soane Tonga'uiha (Tonga)
LH Alex Waller (England)

LK Paul O'Connell (Ireland)
LK Juandre Kruger (South Africa)
LK Brad Thorn (New Zealand)
LK Yoann Maestri (France)
LK Ed Slater (England)

BS Juan Smith (South Africa)
BS Tom Croft (England)
BS Kelly Brown (Scotland)

OS Richie McCaw(c) (New Zealand)
OS Heinrich Brussow (South Africa)
OS Chris Robshaw (England)

N8 Kieran Read (New Zealand)
N8 Toby Faletau (Wales) (12/11/90)
N8 Chris Masoe (New Zealand)

BACKS: 17

SH Ben Youngs (England)
SH Jimmy Cowan (New Zealand)
SH Luke Burgess (Austrailia)
SH Jean-Marc Doussain (France) (12/02/91)

FH Toby Flood (England)
FH Aaron Cruden (New Zealand)
FH Colin Slade (New Zealand)

IC Sonny Bill Williams (New Zealand)
IC James O'Connor (Austrailia)
IC Scott Wiliiams (Wales) (10/10/1990)
IC Ben Williams (England)

OC Jaque Fourie (South Afica)
OC Adam Ashley-Cooper (Austrailia)
OC George Lowe (England)

WG Drew Mitchell (Austrailia)
WG Alex Cuthbert (Wales)
WG Miles Benjamin (England)
WG Tommy Bowe (Ireland)

FB Alex Goode (England)
FB Jared Payne (New Zealand)


Academy: (01/09/90)

PR Luke Cowen-Dickie (England) (20/6/1993)
LK Jonny Gray (Scotland)
LK Will Carrick Smith (England)
BR Josh Beaumont (England)
BR Joel Conlon (England)
BR Hugh Blake (New Zealand)
BR Euan Dods (England)
FH Joel Hodgson (England) (1/8/1992)
FH Grant Connon (England)
FH Henry Slade (England) (19/3/1993)
CE Luke Marshall (Ireland)
CE Andrew Forsyth (England)
CE Chris Harris (England)
CE Sam Jones (England)
CE Francis Saili (New Zealand) (2/2/1991)
WG Raymond Rhule (South Africa)

Junior Academy

HK Nathan Morris (England) (3/3/1993) - season loan at Wasps
HK George McGuigan (England) (30/3/1993)
PR James Halam
PR Scott Wilson (England)
BR Joe Robinson (England) (6/3/1993)
WG Zach Kibirige (England)

Injuries:(Available week in brackets)

AP R12 - Will Carrick-Smith
AP R13 - Scott Williams
HC/AC R5 - Toby Flood
HC/AC R6 - James O'Connor
AWC R3 - Rory Best

SBW...?

Lol worth testing the water

Whats your plans with him? Suprised you haven't had a few sneaky offers.
Good short term option for someone looking for a 12...little use to you in the long run, with the cover at 12 you have...

What did you have in mind for Crane?

Bekker would need Kruger/Parling as a replacement and a gain else where mate who you got available?

Get Tommy Bowe/Alex Goode into the deal?

Not sure mate, really want to keep him but also want to improve my starting locks.

Would need to be a lock who if foreign would be a significant improvement for me.

POC

Always hard dealing on potential as we've found in the past, but I genuinely couldn't give much more than a straight swap. Kitchener is EQ, young and a Lancaster favourite, who if he gets a good start to the season at Tigers could well feature in the AI's as Lancaster rates him highly. POC has been truly world class in the past, but not for a couple of years and has been injured more than he's played in the last two seasons. He is nearly 33 and there are no guarantees that he will be world class again.

It's a gamble both ways, but I can understand why you wouldn't want to do it.

I posted myself how i was gutted he was just overage about 2 months ago. completely forgot to move him.

have just had to release james hanks who is a very tidy second row. Was tipped by many to go to SA this trip just gone

POC for sale?

cheers for the tips on my team - really useful!

yeah i can see the lineout getting picked up on quite a bit - so am looking at different ways around that, like getting back three to run the ball quick, using lineout to get a drive on instead of quick ball all the time - then use my centres to get over the gainline.

hoping my scrum is going to be a lot stronger this year, but have been very lucky that some of the youngsters I got have come through so quickly - just really need Lawes to come back strong (and start carrying more!).

Difficult to rate what I'd want for him. Starts games in the S15 so not a maybe, he's the real deal.

What you got in mind? Academy needs academy unless improvement on my 40.

Hit me with something.

Get Faletau or Williams involved?

See if you can come up with anything?

Trying to get as many players a game at this stage - Cencus, Hargreaves, Scaysbrook, Crane, Clegg and Poitrenaud likely to start.
Probs first teamers around them.

Looking at your squad right now, personally i'd be looking at this as your strongest side:

1. Soane Tonga'uiha
2. Rory Best
3. Owen Franks
4. Brad Thorn
5. Geoff Parling
6. Chris Robshaw
7. Richie McCaw (c)
8. Keiran Reid

09. Ben Youngs
10. Aaron Cruden
11. James O'Connor
12. Sonny Bill Williams
13. George Lowe
14. Tommy Bowe
15. Alex Goode

16. Alex Waller
17. Lee Mears
18. Paul Doran-Jones
19. Paul O'Connell
20. Heinrich Brussow
21. Jimmy Cowan
22. Toby Flood
23. Miles Benjamin

Can't remember playing my strongest side much last season though...

I'll get back to you on it as i'm at my 40 limit as it is.

Would be my first choice back row, not sure how often I will get to play it though, depends on which EQ options in my squad are playing well really.

Despite losing all my games so far this summer tournament has been of real benefit for me, have a much better idea of what combos of mine people see as good ones.

Just seen your comment on the homepage.

Had a look at both our squads and figured I need a WC 12, and you could do with the best fullback on the planet.
So i'll make the offer...know you have a man crush on the kid but he's way too young for you.

Beale for JOC

No worries...i'll get my 12 eventually lol

yeh thats fine by me mate.

do u wanna do 7 EQ starters this week as per the Heino rules for this season? instead of doing 8.

Sharples would need England level player back. I would not take Parling so it leaves robshaw which would not happen. Can't see anything really

Sgt_Pooly wrote:Rate both Parling & Robshaw well above tbh so agree would struggle

Agree re robshaw. Worth more than sharples currently. For me parling would not be in England side unless he played for Leicester. Can't work out how he contributes. Borthwick all
Over again.

To be fair lawes, attwood etc mean we will get a good engine room soon, botha and Parling probably our weakest pair in my lifetime.

Same for a few positions we are in a real transitional period

If he was at falcons he would not be England for me. 2nd row weak for England at momEnt. Agree that May better than sharples. Both good players. May has x factor and is nails in the tackle.

Of your English it's only robshaw who I would ever have any interest in so we will never find a deal.

AAC?

Smith?

LK Paul O'Connell (Ireland)
WG Drew Mitchell (Austrailia)
WG Tommy Bowe (Ireland)

What sort of players you looking at for these, to get us going on a long road to a stalemate

I'm interested in Kruger, Brussow, AAC and Bowe mate

Straight swap for Kruger?

How much cash have you got?

Not really keen on Cowan mate.

Burgess + Elsom for Brussow?

Is there any way I can get Brussow?

What about Kruger?

He'd take a top class 8 and a top class eq player to go!!!!

fancy doubling your money for burgess??

what sort of team are you putting out this week? I don't mind, tempted to do a mix of ages, SH/NH's etc.

fair offer. but im keen to see how WP Nel gets on for Edinburgh. reckon he could be rated a bit higher if he does well there.

I'll pass on that one thanks mate, not looking to sell Davies.

Sorry nfs

It's the leeks mate

What for big bad Brad Thorn?

He's 138 years old, not a chance of Simmons+ for him.

Need to be a decent offer for any of them. Mullen and Rennie especially.

decent offer fella but i'm not too keen on losing Mullen for Waller after every man and his dog seem to be chasing him and Rennie on here.

I think it's fair to say I'm not looking to let any of them go really.

Yes i had read that. He was thought of being in the position to break through, I prefer him at 12 or 13 to 10.

Cracking player. A great distributor and has wheels. He is also pretty damn solid in the tackle which is usually the hardest thing to get right

We produce backs like nowhere else. We have a few forwards coming through.

Check out Elliot Stookes and George Evans, both look good.

Stookes is the big hope. can't stop reading about him local press and on glos sites. Local lad as well

Have to be a good offer, mate, looks like i've got a gem.

What do you fancy

Kruger would be a nice replacement